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Reefs at Risk
… David Arnold Shallow-water coral reefs are best known for their beauty, and as home to rafts of colorful fish. That these complex ecosystems support a quarter of all marine species is less commonly appreciated. If the …
Issue: July-August 2011
Ghost Stories for the Apocalypse
… On the balmy waves above a coral reef we once called Harvard … 25, run the gamut in setting, scope, and even form: a scrap of scripture from an imagined monastery shares space with a sci-fi saga spanning a million years of future history. But in a way, they are all ghost stories. …
Designs for the Dance
… his Ballets Russes in Paris in 1909, he injected into the tired corpus of European ballet a massive dose of adrenaline. In the 20 years that he ran the legendarily …
Issue: July-August 2004
Sticking to the Union
… New York City for 15 years, Greg Lichtenberg ’88 tolerates the cash-flow anxieties because of the clear lifestyle benefits: lots of control over his time (especially helpful for parenting), …
Issue: July-August 2010
The "Nicest Building in the Yard"
… three centuries, Massachusetts Hall has stood quietly at the entrance of Harvard Yard. It is perhaps more quintessentially Harvard than any other building, for as a central part of the Yard and as the oldest building on campus, it has …
Issue: November-December 2001
Diagnosing the “Skills Gap”
… The problem : There’s a “skills gap” in the American … can’t find them—even as candidates applying to hundreds of jobs can’t get hired. The diagnosis: an underperforming … Harvard Business School’s Project on Managing the Future of Work (MFW), a disconnect between educators and employers …
Graduate School of Design
… provisions from Redbones and ice cream, at 1 p.m. in the portico rooms. Class photos will be taken on Wednesday, May 26, in Piper, followed by a rehearsal of the GSD ceremony in the studio trays. The schedule, by … Planning and Design 3 p.m. Master in Design Studies/Doctor of Design Denise Scott Brown, principal of Venturi, Scott …
Intergenerational Social Mobility Varies by Region
… A new study to be published this week summarizes one of the largest efforts yet to examine the social, political, … 40. … Economists ask what factors help children rise out of poverty. … Harvard study finds regional …
Of Phở, Bún, and Fish Sauce
… Duong Huynh and Vinh Le (no relation to Le’s owners) peruse the menu. As the duo behind Nem, a local Vietnamese food venture that offers culinary classes and pop-up dinners, they are, … for a meal you have only two or three small pieces of meat. So when we have food, we sit around and talk and we …
Issue: March-April 2019
Auden and the Little Things
… We must love one another or die. This line appears near the end of W.H. Auden's poem "September First, 1939 . " Perhaps … heard it by now; it was widely circulated in the wake of September Eleventh, 2001. It was alarmingly prescient: …
Issue: July-August 2003
Graduate School of Education Launches $250-Million Campaign
… On the crisp autumn Friday of September 19, the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) canceled classes and closed off Appian … and experimentation in an effort to effect a nationwide rise in excellence and equity outcomes. His initial …
Barack Obama of Harvard Law School—and Beyond
… Law School, Barack Obama, J.D. '91, now president-elect of the United States, also came to the attention of the wider University community. In 1990, he was elected …
Climate-Solutions Investments Near 1 Percent of Endowment Assets
… solutions”—such as carbon-capture and sequestration enterprises—are approaching 1 percent of total endowment assets, and growing rapidly. HMC, which oversees investment of endowment and other University financial assets, issued its second annual …
Global Reach
… Sujiatuo township , 30 kilometers northwest of central Beijing, lies directly in the path of the swiftest, most massive urbanization in human history. As incomes rise and tens of millions of people migrate from China’s …
Issue: May-June 2010
Off the Shelf
… Tiger Writing: Art, Culture, and the Interdependent Self, by Gish Jen ’77, BI ’87, RI ’02 … and individual experience—and the Eastern narrative of her ancestry, grounded in morality and the recurrent … case anyone is listening. Truth’s Ragged Edge: The Rise of the American Novel, by Philip F. Gura ’72, Ph.D. ’77 …
Issue: March-April 2013