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Scallops atop black sticky rice; behind, beef satay and baby greens

Large Successes

Tapas of distinction at Small Plates restaurant and wine bar...

by Christopher Reed

Image courtesy of Harvard Map Collection

Vintage Brevities

The Harvard Map Collection in Pusey Library has recently become home to more than 10,000 map postcards...

One form of the Rocky Mountain monkey flower has a long trumpet suited to pollination by hummingbirds; the other is pollinated by bumblebees. Their hybrid offspring don’t do well in the wild, however, because they are not easily fertilized by the birds or the bees.

What Stress Reveals

Biologist Susan Lindquist investigates how HSP90 (heat-shock protein 90), a protein chaperone, provides a molecular mechanism that may help explain punctuated equilibrium in evolution...

by Jonathan Shaw

Talk, Part II: "Life is Not a Check-List"

Fed chair Bernanke, J.K. Rowling, and President Faust on how to live well...

Mycobacteria form greasy, fatty-looking colonies. Their thick lipid coatings may play a role in allowing them to survive an onslught of antibiotics.

Where Does Tuberculosis Hide?

The fight against an ancient scourge shifts to new battlegrounds...

by Jonathan Shaw

Chapter & Verse

Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words...

Herschenfeld as Butt, a mechanical bird, in Charles Wuorinen's <em>Haroun</em> and the <em>Sea of Stories</em>.

From Soaps to Solos

Operatic bass Ethan Herschenfeld sings around the world, but also enjoys acting on TV (Damages)...

by Daniela Amini

Cambridge 02138

First Amendment, slavery's reach, energy options...

Honoris Causa

Three women and seven men received honorary degrees at Commencement.

Unequal America

Causes and consequences of the wide—and growing—gap between rich and poor

by Elizabeth Gudrais

An Argument for Music

Critic Alex Ross keeps "classical" music current...

by Paul Gleason

David Rockefeller

A Giant's Gift

David Rockefeller gives $100 million for international and arts education...