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Gift Ideas from a Valentine's-Day Doubter
The book selections include titles from fiction, memoir, self-help/advice, cookbooks, travel guides, and poetry...
Brazil's "Minister of Ideas"
In the Times story, Unger compares his Harvard experience to "paradise," but says, "There is a problem with life in the garden. It is not dangerous enough...
Humor, Without a Safety Net
Joanna Weiss ’94 assesses efforts by TV funnymen Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert to work without their writers, who are still on strike...
At Harvard Medical International, Changes Afoot
Since its inception, it has developed more than 50 programs, in more than 30 countries across five continents. The website lists more than two dozen projects currently under way...
Interest Rate Insight
Wondering what in the world is going on with the economy lately? Let Sebastian Mallaby explain.
Farewell to Folkman
Since the Boston Globe's White Coat Notes health blog reported the news, Folkman's colleagues, patients, and friends—more than 100 people in all—have posted comments, sharing their remembrances in a moving tribute to the physician-researcher...
Fortune Cookie Mystery
Jennifer 8. Lee ’99, a former Ledecky Undergraduate Fellow at this magazine, explores research on the provenance of the fortune cookie...
You Put WHAT In Your Harvard Application?
How far will high-school seniors go to get college admissions officers' attention...
"Harry Potter" Author to Speak at Commencement
University president Drew Gilpin Faust said: "Perhaps no one in our time has done more than J.K. Rowling to inspire young people to experience the excitement and the sheer joy of reading. Global sales of Rowling's seven novels...
Autism Update
In a recent paper published in the New England Journal of Medicine, a group of Boston Autism Consortium members reported a significant breakthrough...
Stem Cells in the New Year
Brock Reeve, executive director of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, offers his predictions for what 2008 holds for the field of stem-cell research...
Welcome to the Blogosphere
There are thousands of blogs out there; Dalio and his staff read them so the rest of us don't have to...