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Engineering Equity
The reports of the Task Force on Women Faculty (WF) and the Task Force on Women in Science and Engineering (WISE), released on May 16, share a...
A Taste for Extinction
The island nation of Madagascar boasts not only one of the highest levels of species diversity on earth, but also unparalleled rates of...
Errant Oars
"Your wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by." The secretary of the class of 1947 has asked for the help of...
Sommersemester
It is week 3 of my Sommersemester at the Freie Universität in west Berlin and finallyfinallyI am hitting my stride. “In...
Commencement Confetti
NOBLE BEAST Professional bomb-sniffer Tara, a two-year-old golden/lab/vizsla from Holland, made organizers breathe easier by checking out...
Aftershocks
In the wake of its March 15 vote that it “lacks confidence” in his leadership (see “At Odds,” May-June, page 55), the...
Unsound Sleep
The National Sleep Foundation’s 2005 survey found that 75 percent of American adults experience symptoms of a sleep problem at least a few...
Scientific Ambitions
Preliminary land-use plans for campus development in Allston have yet to be subjected to public review and comment (see “Allston Options:...
Chapter & Verse
Mike Kempson requests a source for the following exchange, possibly from an old poem: “It was just the other day that the Gray Swan sailed...
Foreign Service
Military physicians (left to right) Eldon Bell, Miguel Palos, Robert Yarrish, and (below) Graham Hoffman Courtesy of Miguel Palos...
The Exemplars
Philip Keene Photograph by Jim Harrison Bertha Offenbach Fineberg Photograph by Jim Harrison The oldest graduates of Harvard and...
Also Heard
[T]he fourth and last thing that I learned at Harvard Business School, and the thing that may be most important to the people here today, is to...