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William Thomas, M.D. ’86

At Home with Old Age

William Thomas, founder of the Eden Alternative and the Green House Project, reimagines nursing homes and residential living for the elderly.

by Nell Porter-Brown

Weaver ants (<i>Oecophylla smaragdina</i>) cooperate as they construct their leaf-tent nests.

Stinging the Dinosaurs

An excerpt from The Superorganism: The Beauty, Elegance, and Strangeness of Insect Societies, by Bert Hölldobler and E. O. Wilson

Youthful Dreams

The Undergraduate reflects on how good and bad dreams shape the way we grow up.

by Brittney Moraski

The slave trade shipped Africans to the Americas, the Middle East, and Asia; where victims ended up depended in part on which trade route their captors used. In total, the four routes ferried nearly 20 million people out of Africa.

Slavery’s Sway

Interdisciplinary economist Nathan Nunn explores the problem of African underdevelopment by drawing on—and unearthing—historical data about slavery.

by Paul Gleason

Morning Prayers: All Creatures

President Drew Faust delivers a homily at Morning Prayers on the importance of environmental stewardship.

Genetic Protections

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Filial Fiction

Sidebar: A brief account of the poet’s daughter, short-story writer Ellen Wilbur

Well Done

Recipients of the 2008 Harvard Alumni Association Awards

Chapter & Verse

Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words

Bumps in the Road

A report on the first half of the Harvard football season. And: The Harvard football team has a fancy new locker room.

Puzzle "John Harvard"

Clever creations of puzzlemaker John de Cuevas ’52

Financial Crises, Faculty Views

Harvard faculty members gather to discuss economic problems on Wall Street and beyond.