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This unorthodox de-mining team avoids most of the traditional pitfalls. Metal detectors give too many false alarms, fooled by bullets or other debris. Hand-held ground-penetrating radar machines are too expensive. Dogs weigh enough to trigger mines, injuring or killing themselves and their handlers.

Man, Mongoose, and Machine

Standing outside a Sri Lankan army base in the spring of 2007, Thrishantha Nanayakkara mapped an entire minefield without once setting foot in it.

by Paul Gleason

The winning entry in Harvard’s 2008 environmental cartoon contest, created by Matt Smith, a staff member at the Fine Arts Library

Ecophilic Initiatives

Examples of how the University and its constituent parts have been going green during the past several years...

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Tuberculosis, space and time, military matters...

Medical Makeover

A new master's program and expansion of the M.D./Ph.D. program are two among many changes to emerge from the Harvard Medical School (HMS) strategic-planning process...

Wine...and Dine

An Italian restaurant on Beacon Hill offers great food with its wine...

by Nell Porter-Brown

"Launched into Eternity"

Broadsides and hangings in old England...

Felonious Mayhem

Enron and other capitalist calamities

Self-Definition

Joel Derfner’s new book reveals some hidden depths.

Rookie Redux

I realized that college was over when I opened up the large diploma case to show my family the product of four years’ labor and found...

by Liz Goodwin

University People

Edward C. Forst ’82 has been named Harvard’s first executive vice president, effective September 1.

Seriously Funny

Ian Frazier combines an historian's discipline with an original comic mind...

by Craig Lambert

A Tale of Two Detectives

Lauren Mechling writes in the thriving young-adult genre.

by Paul Gleason