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Bioterrorism and the University

There can be few higher privileges for the scientific community than to contribute to the security, freedom, and well-being of our nation and of...

Whales Aplenty

The hunters launched in mid August from Iceland and steamed into the North Atlantic. There were three ships, each tracing a different track...

Harvard @ Home

Those who missed the Alumni College on "The State of the Global Environment" earlier this year can still experience the event via the...

No Answers for O-

The day before I arrived in Kosovo, authorities in Pristina changed the name of the capital city's thoroughfare from Vladimir Lenin Street to...

by Lee Hudson Teslik

In Allston Planning, the Silly Season

Expansion of the undergraduate student body, construction of as many as three new undergraduate Houses across the Charles River, and expansion...

A Grand Time

Three years ago, Luella Kramer's friends were shaking their heads. "They all thought I'd lost my mind," the retired nurse recalls...

Timothy Mitchison

Timothy MitchisonPhotograph by Jim Harrison"When I came to America, I found that if you could do something or had something to say, people...

Conflict in the Stacks

Library history used to be the sleepiest of all academic disciplines. Compared with the gripping narratives of military or political history, it...

Family Moviemakers

Every day in Dallas, people gather in Dealey Plaza to look up at the sixth floor of what once was the Texas School Book Depository. Some lay...

Fall Sports in Brief

Women's Soccer The netwomen (3-3-2, 1-0 Ivy) snapped Penn's 10-game unbeaten streak with a 2-1 home victory over the Quakers to open their Ivy...

Tupperware: The Movie

Filmmakers have so delighted in debunking the idyllic myth of 1950s America that exposing the era's seamier side has almost developed into its...

How to Care for Your Grandfather's Teddy Bear

Harvard offers a new on-line resource for anyone who has stuff worth keeping safe, such as photographs of one's wedding; or those fading...