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Turning History's Page

Conservator Marjorie B. Cohn, with the tools of her trade, meticulously restored the fragile newspapers, shown below in their initial...

Yesterday's News

From the pages of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin and Harvard Magazine

Faculty Diversity

When alumni, after a long absence, stroll through Harvard Yard or return to any other university campus, two questions usually come to mind:...

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TERRORISM An acquaintance's discovery of a child's crisply done arm on his roof near Ground Zero just after September 11, and your fanciful...

Brevia

Landscaping Transplanted The Radcliffe Institute's seminar program in landscape design and landscape design history...

Heather Gerken

Heather Gerken Photograph by Stu Rosner When the election of a president appeared to hang in the balance, the media came knocking at...

A New Model

For a University committee, HCECP--which included faculty members, administrators, unionized workers, and both undergraduates and graduate...

Off the Shelf

The Age of Science: What Scientists Learned in the Twentieth Century, by Gerard Piel '37 (Basic Books, $40). The founder of Scientific American...

Alternative medicine ("integrative medicine") goes mainstream

In the 1950s the American Cancer Society had a Committee on Quackery. Later that turned into a committee on "unproven methods of cancer...

by Craig Lambert

Happy XCth

Finding Work That Works for You

Sticking with one job, one company, or even a single career is much less common than it used to be. This can be a blessing--or a burden. Some...

by Nell Porter-Brown