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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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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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(Click on arrow at right to view full image) No true likeness of Callimachus is known to exist, but the Libyan-born poet probably resembled the men whose faces appear on the Hellenistic coffins unearthed in Fayum, Egypt, including this one.
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During a quarter-century of engagement in Vietnam's economic development, Harvard scholars create a unique educational institution.
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Attentive Schlesinger, “Bellboys,” bigger data
A letter from the editor
A letter from President Faust
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Under pressure, getting excited yields better results than remaining calm.
Historian Maya Jasanoff says fiction can capture the subjective experience of the past.
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After a multiyear renovation, Harvard Art Museums make ready for a November reopening.
The first analyses of online-course registrants—and "dropouts"—and other MOOC news
Two new Corporation members, College tuition and admissions, Allston teaching spaces, and more
A landmark gift for financial aid, and other campaign gains
Distance runner Maksim Korolev has set Harvard and Ivy League records in cross-country and track.
Harvard’s men’s basketball team lost, 80-73, to Michigan State in the NCAA tournament, giving them a scare.
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2014 candidates for Harvard Overseer and HAA elected directors
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