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Winnie, Texas is not considered to be in a floodplain. But coastal hurricanes have flooded the town repeatedly since 2008.
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To protect against rising seas, local lenders are selling off risky mortgages.
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A statue of John C. Calhoun is removed on June 24 in Charleston, South Carolina.
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The rise and fall of Charleston’s John C. Calhoun statue, a monument to white supremacy
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Facing legal challenges, the University does away with its controversial regulations on final clubs, fraternities, and sororities.
Beds were set up for Spanish flu patients outside the Harvard-affiliated Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in 1918.
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Cambridge’s Sofra Bakery & Café feeds sheltering crowds.
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(1 of 4) Crabapple specimens, with views of Boston, on Peters HillPhotograph by Jon Hetman/Courtesy of the Arnold Arboretum
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Beds were set up for Spanish flu patients outside the Harvard-affiliated Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in 1918.
Photograph courtesy of the Brigham and Women's Hospital ArchivesFall semester interrupted, a century ago
This 1895 map of New York City was created by socialist activist Walter Vrooman, who hoped that by showing the "concrete socialism" of every street, park, school, public building, and public dock in red (and allowing private enterprises to recede into the white background), he might persuade readers that the rest of the map should be socialist as well.
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Curator Garrett Dash Nelson ’09 on the Boston Public Library’s exhibition of “persuasive cartography”
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Beds were set up for Spanish flu patients outside the Harvard-affiliated Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in 1918.
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Georgina Milne tucks and flips, helping Harvard defeat Brown.
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The College Pump
A restoration is in progress of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s undergraduate rooms at Harvard, and Ralph Nader sets a speech-making Guinness World Record.
Treasure
The late Stuart Cary Welch was a connoisseur of lovers’ picnics and the world of Persian and Indian art.
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In the fight against terrorists, habeas corpus has played a key role in efforts to balance civil liberties against national security.
Bioengineering--at the intersection of biology, medical science, and engineering--is where scientists Joseph Vacanti, Pamela Silver, Kit Parker, David Mooney, Joanna Aizenberg, and Radhika Nagpal are defining a new field.
Art historian Robin Kelsey examines photographs of all kinds to reveal what they say about human history, society, and culture.
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Harvard Medical School’s Bruce Spiegelman studies brown fat, a little-known type of tissue with health-promoting potential.
Skeptical of both defined-benefit and defined-contribution retirement plans, Harvard Business School professor Robert Merton proposes a hybrid, SmartNest, to overcome the shortcomings of each.
In The Cure Within, historian of science Anne Harrington explores the medical history of the mind-body connection.
McKay professor of applied biology Ralph Mitchell and postdoctoral fellow Nick Konkol work with preservation librarians to develop a test that can detect damaging mold in books before it becomes visible.
New England Regional
A look at the world of dating for those over 45
Highland Kitchen, a Southern-inspired restaurant-bar, satisfyingly fills a Somerville niche.
John Harvard's Journal
With a public appearance and speech in Tercentenary Theatre, Nobel Prize-winning environmental activist Al Gore ’69, LL.D. ’94, helped launch Harvard’s commitment to sustainability.
An update on the University’s initial responses to the worsening economic climate
(Sidebar) The shrinking Harvard endowment affects the University's different schools differently.
The Chiara String Quartet are Harvard's current Blodgett Artists-in-Residence.
Harvard College rolls out the new general education curriculum for undergraduates.
Art historian and former museum curator Emily Rauh Pulitzer gives the Harvard Art Museum 31 important works of modern and contemporary art and $45 million, enhancing a tradition she shared with her late husband, Joseph Pulitzer Jr
Happenings at Harvard in Januarys and Februarys past
In a special Harvard convocation, Senator Edward M. Kennedy receives an honorary degree.
In speeches at Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School, President Drew Faust outlines her vision of professional education, service, and responsibility.
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An innovative housing initiative with deep Harvard ties lets families in Chile who once lived illegally become homeowners.
Two new education centers, run by Roland Fryer and Thomas Kane, and an existing center, run by Paul Peterson, bring Harvard’s analytic resources to bear on public education issues: student achievement, teacher recruitment, and school choice.
News of the University and the Harvard community
Undergraduate columnist Christian Flow ponders the strange social science of mingling.
Quiz Bowl’s quirky intellectualism and hard-driving competitiveness energize a strong Harvard team.
Soccer and basketball updates
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Aerial photographer Alex MacLean documents the effects of the American lifestyle on the American landscape.
In this excerpt from her new book, <em>Michelangelo, Drawing, and the Invention of Architecture,</em> Cammy Brothers discusses how the artist demonstrated the possibility for architecture to be a vehicle for the imagination equal to painting or sculpture.
Sara Houghteling’s first novel, <em>Pictures at an Exhibition,</em> tells the story of a young man who searches post-war Paris for both his lost love and his father’s stolen art collection.
Pan Tianshu reviews Leslie Chang's new book <em>Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China</em>
A correspondence corner for not-so-famous lost words
Alumni
Through his work at the Institute for the Study and Practice of Nonviolence, Teny Gross is keeping kids alive.
Anthony C. Woods has initiated his own dismissal from the U.S. Army under the “Don’t ask, don’t tell” policy.
Teresa Clarke helps talented but low-income South African children through the Student Sponsorship Programme.
With her Naturally Nora cake and frosting mixes, Nora Schultz aims to provide quick and wholesome desserts.
News from Shared Interest Groups
Marie Rutkoski blends sixteenth-century history with fantasy in <em>The Cabinet of Wonders,</em> a new novel for young adults.
Farewell to Walter Seward, Harvard's longest-lived alumnus
A sampling of forthcoming Harvard Club events around the country
The College Pump
A restoration is in progress of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s undergraduate rooms at Harvard, and Ralph Nader sets a speech-making Guinness World Record.
Treasure
The late Stuart Cary Welch was a connoisseur of lovers’ picnics and the world of Persian and Indian art.