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From the pages of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin and Harvard Magazine

From The March-April 2002 Issue

Published in the March-April 2002 print issue in the Alumni section.

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Why Men Are Falling Behind in Education, Employment, and Health

Can new approaches to education address a growing gender gap?

The Franklin Stove—A Historical Climate Change Adaptation

Historian Joyce E. Chaplin reinterprets an early era of invention, industrialization, and climate challenge

The 1884 Cannibalism-at-Sea Case That Still Has Harvard Talking

The Queen v. Dudley and Stephens changed the course of legal history. Here’s why it’s been fodder for countless classroom debates.

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The Queen v. Dudley and Stephens changed the course of legal history. Here’s why it’s been fodder for countless classroom debates.

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