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THE POWER OF EXERCISE "The Deadliest Sin," by Jonathan Shaw (March-April, page 36), is the first article that I have seen to discuss all the different research which ties exercise (from walking to resistance training to distance running) to improved …
Issue: May-June 2004
Tying Knots
On a dumping ground along a dirt road in Santiago's Renca municipality, Harvard-affiliated planners work to create decent housing for 160 struggling families. In the center of Chile's sprawling capital city, students at the College are in the front ranks …
Issue: May-June 2004
From the Archives: The Market-Model University
More than two decades ago—before the Great Recession caused states to slash funding for public universities (sending tuition bills soaring); before the gold rush into social media lured a generation of students into computer science and engineering; …
The Political Solicitor General
The most political case of the indelibly political Supreme Court term that ended in June was about the travel ban President Donald J. Trump imposed last September. It banned almost all travel to the United States from seven countries where more than 135 …
Issue: September-October 2018
The Legal Olympian
Cass Sunstein ’75, J.D. ’78, has been regarded as one of the country’s most influential and adventurous legal scholars for a generation. His scholarly articles have been cited more often than those of any of his peers ever since he was a young professor. …
Issue: January-February 2015
Tiananmen Plus Twenty-five
On the night of June 3, 1989, and into the morning hours, tens of thousands of People’s Liberation Army (PLA) troops, armed with automatic rifles and backed by tanks, converged on central Beijing, opening fire where their progress was blocked, clearing …
Issue: July-August 2014
Spotlight Travel
New England has a variety of State Parks that make for perfect day trips. Here are some ideas to consider for a summer stop. Gillette Castle State Park 67 River Road East Haddam, CT 06423 860-526-2336 Website It looks like a medieval fortress, but a step …
Maya Sen: Have U.S. Courts Become Political Prizes?
If judges truly are impartial arbiters of justice , why do politicians fight over who will be appointed to the bench? Are the courts actually a political prize? And are judges really akin to umpires, just calling “balls and strikes”? How does the …
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The sun shone brightly on Harvard and Lawrence S. Bacow on Friday, October 5, as Harvard inaugurated its twenty-ninth president. He will need to tap that solar energy, and other sources, like the support from an appreciative Tercentenary Theatre crowd, to …
Issue: November-December 2018
The Hack as Genius
Earlier this year, Houghton Library announced one of the most exciting donations in its history: the Donald and Mary Hyde Collection of Dr. Samuel Johnson. Started by the Hydes in the early 1940s and continually expanded by Mary Hyde (later Viscountess …
Issue: November-December 2004
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From Eugenics… I commend the excellent article “ Harvard’s Eugenics Era ” (by Adam Cohen, March-April, page 48). The “era” was not just at Harvard but really encompasses the United States generally and ought to be required reading for American history, …
Issue: May-June 2016
Is Teach for America Good for America?
“It’s like you’re the special ops team that’s coming in to rescue education because real teachers are terrible at their jobs. I’m not going to say that every career teacher is an all-star…but I do think it’s problematic to right off the bat blame the …
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Epigenetics Professor Sarah Richardson’s research on gendered bias in scientific studies is fascinating ( “The Science of Sex,” November-December 2019, page 34). I cringed, though, when I got to the part of the article stating that the theory Richardson …
Issue: January-February 2020
Medicine in the Middle of Nowhere
There was still some light in the sky that evening after supper, when everybody started shuffling over to find a spot near the fire. The heat of the day had faded only slightly. Still, they were carrying extra layers and puffy jackets. And headlamps: one …
Issue: November-December 2017
Educating Teachers
“This is something that’s interesting about HTF,” Quan Le ’15 said. “We literally cry every day.” Le was recalling the Harvard Teacher Fellows’ first collective classroom experience: a two-week stint at Madison Park Technical Vocational High School in …
Issue: November-December 2016