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Anthologizing Yourself

Mary Jo Salter keeps her own (and others') poetry alive...

by Paul Gleason

Off the Shelf

Recent books with Harvard connections...

Joanna Aizenberg

Joanna Aizenberg

A bioengineer learns from sponges...

Ana Vollmar ’08, of the veggie-loving Dudley House Co-op and Hamden, Connecticut.

J.K. Rowling, Ben Bernanke and President Faust in 2008

At a time of war and recession, Commencement takes stock of nation, University, and graduates' lives...

Scallops atop black sticky rice; behind, beef satay and baby greens

Large Successes

Tapas of distinction at Small Plates restaurant and wine bar...

by Christopher Reed

Image courtesy of Harvard Map Collection

Vintage Brevities

The Harvard Map Collection in Pusey Library has recently become home to more than 10,000 map postcards...

One form of the Rocky Mountain monkey flower has a long trumpet suited to pollination by hummingbirds; the other is pollinated by bumblebees. Their hybrid offspring don’t do well in the wild, however, because they are not easily fertilized by the birds or the bees.

What Stress Reveals

Biologist Susan Lindquist investigates how HSP90 (heat-shock protein 90), a protein chaperone, provides a molecular mechanism that may help explain punctuated equilibrium in evolution...

by Jonathan Shaw

Talk, Part II: "Life is Not a Check-List"

Fed chair Bernanke, J.K. Rowling, and President Faust on how to live well...

Mycobacteria form greasy, fatty-looking colonies. Their thick lipid coatings may play a role in allowing them to survive an onslught of antibiotics.

Where Does Tuberculosis Hide?

The fight against an ancient scourge shifts to new battlegrounds...

by Jonathan Shaw

Chapter & Verse

Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words...

Herschenfeld as Butt, a mechanical bird, in Charles Wuorinen's <em>Haroun</em> and the <em>Sea of Stories</em>.

From Soaps to Solos

Operatic bass Ethan Herschenfeld sings around the world, but also enjoys acting on TV (Damages)...

by Daniela Amini

Cambridge 02138

First Amendment, slavery's reach, energy options...