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Keystone Pipeline Although Michael McElroy’s recent article, “Forum: The Keystone XL Pipeline” (November-December 2013, page 37) carefully addresses the pipeline issue, especially in terms of carbon dioxide and climate change, it neglects to adequately …
Issue: January-February 2014
The People's Epidemiologists
In the city of Boston —and everywhere else—wealth equals health. If you live in Beacon Hill’s Louisburg Square, which sits in the federal census tract with the third highest median family income in Suffolk County—$196,210—you’re sitting pretty. Your risk …
Issue: March-April 2006
At Large on the Blue Frontier
Science is like fishing. Patience, perseverance, and skill are part of it. Luck also plays a large role. But finding the right location often makes all the difference. When Louis Agassiz, professor of zoology and geology and founder of Harvard's Museum of …
Issue: July-August 2003
Bloodless Revolution
Imagine an operating room requiring no sterilization because there are no wounds, where doctors don't wear scrubs because there is no blood, where anesthesia is unnecessary because there is no pain. The patient doesn't lie on a surgeon's table, but rests …
The Hydrogen-Powered Future
Drive up a country road winding between horse pastures, cross a small bridge, then climb a gravel lane, and you can reach a house that seems to defy the laws of physics. About 70,000 visitors have flocked here since it was built in 1982. The curved, …
Issue: January-February 2004
The Law School and the Law
Rest assured, Harvard Law School is still teaching the law by the Socratic method--even over the Internet. "I've just started this privacy course," Bromley professor of law Arthur R. Miller, LL.B. '58, explained last spring. "The first attempt to use the …
The Future of Marriage
When I came to Harvard in 1970, the model for many young people was the wedding in Love Story ," recalls Peter J. Gomes, who has performed marriages in Harvard's Memorial Church for 34 years. Reflecting on the schmaltzy melodrama about a rich Crimson …
Issue: November-December 2004
"Listen to One Another": Harvard Commencement
For a newish president, Lawrence S. Bacow has had a lot of practice with the solemn ritual and spirited hoopla of graduations. He was on the receiving end as an undergraduate at MIT (1972), and then slightly upriver at Harvard (M.P.P.-J.D. ’76, Ph.D. …
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Yo-Yo Ma's Journeys
A warm, breezy day in July, and beneficent providence has set for me a sumptuous lunch overlooking God's own landscape near Tanglewood, on the patio at Wheatleigh, the poshest hotel in the Berkshires. This is theoretically a business lunch. But never has …
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Linguistic Signs I read “ A Language Out of Nothing ” (by Marina Bolotnikova, May-June, page 50) with great interest. I was thrilled to see that ASL has returned to Harvard, and that the University embraces what has always been obvious to me: ASL is a …
Issue: July-August 2017
Final-Club Fissures
Ever since President Drew Faust and College dean Rakesh Khurana announced last May that the College would sanction future undergraduates who are members of unrecognized single-gender social organizations (final clubs, fraternities, and sororities), …
The Way We Eat Now
Last year, Morgan Spurlock decided to eat all his meals at McDonald's for a month. For 30 straight days, everything he took in—breakfast, lunch, dinner, even his bottled water—came from McDonald's. Spurlock recorded the results on camera for his …
Issue: May-June 2004
Brainy Women
The human brain rests in cupped hands as easily as a cantaloupe. It is softer and spongier to the touch, of course, and its surface is more deeply ridged and wrinkled than the melon's skin. Since the time of Hippocrates, physicians and scientists have …
Issue: May-June 2002
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Eviction Impacts Kudos to Elizabeth Gudrais for her article on Matthew Desmond and the victims of eviction ( “Disrupted Lives,” January-February, page 38). However, Desmond should have spent some “immersion” time with the other victims of eviction—the …
Issue: March-April 2014
Changing, Challenging China
In mid March , Harvard Business School and the Harvard China Fund will formally inaugurate a substantial center in Shanghai—one of the University’s largest international facilities—to support faculty research, visiting students, and teaching programs. …
Issue: March-April 2010