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Gore to Speak at Sustainability Celebration
The event will celebrate Harvard's past achievements, present efforts, and future goals, including President Drew Faust's commitment to cut greenhouse-gas emissions 30 percent by 2016...
Bailing Out Finance: How Will It End?
Safra professor of economics Jeremy C. Stein and University of Chicago economist Anil Kashyap outline the options, as they see them, for the federal government's promised $700-billion bailout for financial firms...
I Cook, Therefore I Am?
The "Meeting the Minds" column explores Moore professor of biological anthropology Richard Wrangham's argument that cooking food is what allowed for...
Thoughts on an Obama Win, or Loss
Klein professor of law Randall Kennedy argues that Barack Obama's nomination as a major-party candidate is a milestone in itself...
Harvard Endowment Rises 5.7 Percent to $36.9 Billion
Harvard Management Company (HMC) reported that the University's endowment had increased by $2.0 billion, or 5.7 percent, during the fiscal year ended June 30...
Tall Tales
Arianne Cohen ’03—a onetime Harvard Magazine Ledecky Undergraduate Fellow— is publishing a second book—The Tall Book: A Celebration of Life on High, which promises "a fascinating and informative look into the world of tall people"...
Facebook Profile Before First Steps?
This week's New York Times Thursday Styles section had an article about websites that let infants and toddlers set up profiles...
Allegations of lowering of academic standards and improper recruiting
See the statement issued by the Ivy League on September 3, as well as background links...
Prescription for Error?
In recent years, safety recalls of widely prescribed drugs like the pain-killer Vioxx have sent an unsettling message to consumers.
How They Built Houses in Japan
Watch a film clip showing the reconstruction of the Boston Children's Museum's Japanese house...
The Teen Brain
It’s a paradoxical time of development. These are people with very sharp brains, but they’re not quite sure what to do with them...
Camp Cooking, and Children
Reading from his own works, longtime New Yorker writer Ian Frazier ’73 recounts the perils of preparing “breakfast in a paper bag”...