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XDR-TB Can Be Treated
More than 60 percent of HIV-negative XDR -TB patients in the study, which was conducted in home and community-based settings in Peru...
A Controversial Critique of Teaching and Learning at Harvard
A recent essay by John H. Summers, now a visiting scholar at Boston College's Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life, has prompted sharp comment among academic readers...
Glaeser: Tax Credits for Home Heating Won't Help
Glimp professor of economics Edward L. Glaeser doesn't like the Home Energy Affordability Tax Relief Act, which would give each American household a tax credit for a third of the household's energy costs...
Tobacco Bill's "Pitfalls and Possibilities"
Passage of the tobacco-regulation bill currently before Congress would represent a major step forward, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences dean Allan M. Brandt wrote in last week's New England Journal of Medicine...
Congress's First Blind Rabbi?
Last week's New Yorker had a Talk of the Town piece on the man who hopes to be the first blind rabbi—and in fact, the first rabbi—to serve in the U.S. Congress...
Harvard Alumni Olympic Rowers... and Facebook Litigants
Two members of the 2008 U.S. men's Olympic rowing team hold Harvard degrees: Cameron Winklevoss ’04 and Tyler Winklevoss ’04...
Passages: Julius Richmond, Founding Director of Head Start
Julius B. Richmond, MacArthur professor of health policy emeritus and a revered figure among scholars and politicians, died Sunday...
Times Columnist Likes Katz, Goldin Take on Education and Economy
American young adults today have more education than their parents—but the growth rate of educational attainment from one generation to the next has slowed significantly...
Frenk Appointed Dean of School of Public Health
President Drew Faust announced on July 29 the appointment of Julio Frenk as dean of the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH)...
"L.A.'s Dopest Attorney" Has Harvard Pedigree
Deep in the New Yorker's exploration of the "gray-area" economy of California's marijuana growers and dispensers, a Harvard tidbit...
All Eyes on China
T minus two weeks to the opening ceremonies of the Olympic Games in China. Amid the media throng, several Crimson correspondents offer insightful reports.
Broken Baseball Bats: A Harvard (Statistician's) View
Major League Baseball has retained Carl Morris, professor of statistics and professor of health care policy, to assist in its analysis of the seeming upsurge in broken baseball bats this season...