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The Year a Beat Poet Squatted at Harvard
In 1954, Gregory Corso moved into Eliot House. How he stayed there is a literary legend.
"Bobby" Jones
Jones connects at the Flintridge Golf Club in Los Angeles in 1931. Photograph courtesy Sidney L. Matthew. Photomontage by Bartek Malysa...
Alternative medicine ("integrative medicine") goes mainstream
In the 1950s the American Cancer Society had a Committee on Quackery. Later that turned into a committee on "unproven methods of cancer...
A Woodsplint Basket
Displayed in the "Hall of the North American Indian" at Harvard University's Peabody Museum, the basket looks like many others made in...
The Community Scholar
Ahhng...ahhng...that strange sound somewhere between a ring and a buzzer announces a fire drill at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School. Lines of...
America and Latin America
George W. Bush is not the first president to make Latin America a personal priority. Nor is he the first to drop the region from his agenda when...
Hop, Skip, and Soar
Post-doctoral fellow Gary Gillis plays "catcher" behind a tammar wallaby on a fast-moving treadmill. Hopping marsupials like...
Waldo Peirce
Waldo Peirce '07/'08/'09 almost didn't graduate from Harvard. By his own admission he spent too much time in Leavitt and Peirce (no relation)...
Understanding Terrorism
Beyond the emotional reactions necessarily provoked by the terrorist attacks of September 11 and subsequent anthrax-tainted mailings, the events...
Battling Bioterrorism
When people started dying of inhalation anthrax in 1979 in Sverdlovsk, in the former Soviet Union, it took "six days to discern the outbreak...
Conflict, Abroad and at Home
"That four great nations, flushed with victory and stung with injury, stay the hand of vengeance and voluntarily submit their captive enemies...