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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
Cambridge 02138
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
The Great Global Experiment
During a recent Alaska study cruise cosponsored by the Harvard Museum of Natural History, James J. McCarthy stopped at several islands with small native communities—Little Diomede, for example, with 150 inhabitants. At each village, McCarthy asked …
Issue: November-December 2002
Five Mountains and Parks for the Hiking Enthusiast
Wildflowers and Rock Formations: Five Mountains and Parks for the Hiking Enthusiast by Cassandra Luca, Let’s Go Editorial Director Hikeable mountains and well-preserved parks dot the New England landscape; there are so many, it might be difficult to …
The World's Poor
Such distinguished recent speakers at Harvard as Kofi Annan, Nelson Mandela, and Amartya Sen have decried the desperate plight of the world's poorest people--the estimated billion-plus human beings for whom clean water, minimal nutrition, basic …
How to Spend a Day in Faenza
By: Let's Go travel Whilst frolicking through the hills and gelaterias of Italy, make time for a day trip to Faenza. Faenza is known worldwide for its tradition of ceramic making or faience, dating back to the twelfth century. Besides that, the town is …