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A Peak Experience
Douglas Brockmeyer ’82 comes in exactly where more risk-averse people head for safety. At work, he thrives as a pediatric neurosurgeon...
Faculty Filmmakers
“The people I work with here are the filmmakers I respect most in the world. To watch their work evolve and to have them watch my work...
Comings and Goings
University clubs offer a variety of social and intellectual gatherings. Following is a partial list of Harvard-affiliated speakers appearing at...
Chapter & Verse
F. Markoe Rivinus requests the title and the other words of a song he heard in the late 1950s; he remembers two lines: “You ain’t no...
Broadway in His Blood
Ask Michael Mitnick ’06 what kind of singing voice he has and he replies, “A bad one.” Inquire about his piano-playing skill...
Retinal Ennui
If you “can’t see the forest for the trees,” you’ve focused too much on the details to take in the larger situation...
Reforesting the Yard
Savaged by insects, ravaged by disease and old age, the elms of Harvard Yard were much diminished by 1990 (see photographs, below), when Michael...
Ronald Kessler
Ronald Kessler Photograph by Stu Rosner In on-line biomedical databases, Ronald Kessler ranks as the most widely cited author in...
Relieving Pain
“When we treat pain, the first thing we do is try to eliminate the source of pain, say, by relieving compression on a nerve,&rdquo...
Puzzles
A contributing editor of this magazine, John de Cuevas ’52, is an inveterate perpetrator of puzzles with cryptic clues, and 35 of his...
Intelligent Evolution
Pellegrino University professor emeritus Edward O. Wilson, a scholarly giant of biodiversity and sociobiology, remains at heart a teacher. His...
Bridge to Mesopotamia
In a glass case stand a dozen carved statues of gypsum alabaster — male figurines with their hands folded at their chests and their...