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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...
Genomic Joint Venture
Harvard, its hospitals, MIT, and the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research announced on June 19 that they will together create a...
Ibn al-Haytham
One of the most distinguished and prolific mathematicians in the medieval tradition of Arabic Islamic science, al-Hasan ibn al-Haytham...
"Medicine changes you."
Rather than lay out his every future career move, Vivek Murthy has looked for those things in his life that have generated "feelings of...
Stair Trek
"Your wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by." Philip M. Williams '57 dropped by Primus's third-floor office...
Taking Charge of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Taking Charge of the Beth Israel Deaconess MediPaul Levycal Center...