March 1, 2008

Running on Wind?

Michael B. McElroy’s research group has launched an extensive program to define the potential of wind power as a source of electricity...

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Published in the March-April 2008 print issue in the section.

On Open to Debate, the Harvard economist defended free market competition—with meaningful government involvement.

The play Spare Parts is a contemporary fable about the quest to live forever.

Plus, veteran higher education leader Thomas Ehrlich reflects on university curricula for his 70th reunion

International students continue to enroll amid political uncertainty; mandatory SATs lead to a drop in applications.

The Harvard graduate’s roundtable talk show touches on hot button issues from religion to sex.

In 1954, Gregory Corso moved into Eliot House. How he stayed there is a literary legend.

Harvard researchers achieve medical breakthroughs in cancer therapy and infection control.

A College student’s attempt to recapture the romanticism of the workplace.

In 2004, a frenzy spread across Harvard Yard in days. Four billion users later, we are only just catching up.