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Taking Stock of Celebrity
… For Anita Elberse, whose latest research investigates the impact of big-name stars on films’ revenues, pop culture and … in fact, she predicts movie megastars’ fortunes will only rise. ~ Elizabeth Gudrais … 121 … For Anita Elberse, whose …
Issue: January-February 2008
A Visit from Bill Gates
… Harvard students got a thrill on Thursday when Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates ’77, LL.D. ’07, came to campus. After touring the Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied … flat. Meanwhile, pension and healthcare costs continue to rise, putting pressure on other parts of state budgets. That …
“The Heart of Teaching”
… walked through Radcliffe Yard, where he today addressed the Graduate School of Education’s class of 2024, as a College freshman in 1961. … with technology. “Perhaps, working together with ‘smart machines,’” Gardner said, “we can accomplish what not even …
The Children of Noah
… Hugh Broughton (1549-1612), an English theologian and Hebraist, brought out his first book, A Concent of Scripture, in 1588. “Concent” means “harmony,” and … Broughton laid out what he claimed was a correct chronology of biblical events, harmonizing jarring passages in the …
Issue: November-December 2008
Financing Climate Adaptation—and Deciding What to Let Go
… What will happen when sea-level rise, wildfires, droughts, and floods begin to erode the tax base that cities and towns will use to pay for … markets have already begun to price in the probability of such disasters, and that will make future adaptation …
“The Work of the Public Health Leader Is the Work of the Herdsman”
… Long before starting his current role at the World Bank, which now includes helping coordinate the … coronavirus pandemic, Doctor Muhammad Ali Pate grew up one of 10 children in a family of herdsmen in Nigeria—what “might seem like an unusual …
As Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Rises, Nutrient Content of Rice Falls
… Rising levels of atmospheric CO 2 don’t just warm the planet, they lower the levels of beneficial vitamins and … CO2 … 1514 … 8465 … 1516 … As Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Rises, Nutrient Content of Rice Falls … article …
“The Ingenuity of an Architect”
… had an epiphany. She remembers walking downtown one day in the early 1990s amid abandoned buildings, graffiti, and … “The place felt unhealthy in a way.” She stopped in front of the massive Hudson’s department store, a ghost of what it had been. Completed in 1911, the 32-floor …
Issue: July-August 2024
Voting into Vapor
… Fully electronic systems will record about one-third of the votes cast this November. But "Until and unless everyone … answer." In an electronic election, an NP-complete problem arises when one asks if the computer software has been …
Issue: November-December 2004
"The Gates of Paradise"
… The main baptistery doors of the Duomo in Florence, created by Lorenzo Ghiberti between … Michelangelo himself declared them “worthy to be the gates of Paradise.” Each bronze door stands 16 feet high, weighs …
Issue: March-April 2007
A Report on the Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences
… The Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) convened in … and Public Policy, and Andrew Gordon, Chair of History We rise to speak in our capacity as spring 2006 coordinators of … As we all know, it has been a collective educational enterprise based on the open exchange of different views on what …
The Evolution of Abraham
… We first meet Abraham in Genesis 11. Abraham, a descendant of Noah through his son Shem, lived with his family in the city of Ur in Chaldea (today's Iraq). Having left Ur with his …
Issue: January-February 2004
Sarah Whiting Named Dean of Graduate School of Design
… Sarah Whiting, dean of the Rice University School of Architecture, has been named dean of the Harvard Graduate …
The Medicalization of Torture
… The revelations of torture and prisoner abuse at the Abu … expect doctors to be involved primarily in a healing enterprise, helping other human beings." Lifton, who alerted the … Ghraib, he notes that "atrocity-producing situations" can arise whenever certain conditions crop up. "Most of the Nazi …
Issue: November-December 2004
The State of Civil Rights
… During a conversation Thursday evening in Sanders Theatre that ranged from memories of civil rights marches to police violence and current … health, and the inaction of powerful institutions amid crises of injustice, King returned to his father’s words, and …