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How to Reform Healthcare
… all your symptoms—but at a stage too late to treat. How can the practice of medicine change to address challenges like these? More … The overuse and misuse of antibiotics have accelerated the rise of resistant bacteria, explained Francis professor of …
Five Questions with George Cooper ’25 on Student-Musicians
… George Cooper ’25, a Mather House music concentrator originally from Los Angeles, is captain of the Harvard men’s baseball team, where he plays … and a .434 slugging percentage during his career. Off the field, Cooper loves music and is in the process of …
Shards in the City
… Urban archaeologists peel back the concrete skins of modern cities in search of the material remains of the past. The task challenges …
Issue: November-December 2001
Cambridge 02138
… For instance, taxing "carried interest" as capital rather than as labor income should be reversed. Second, labor savings of as much as 100 to 1 virtually mandated production … to see no reference to the impending risk of sea-level rise. Some Houses are only 9 or 10 feet above current mean …
Issue: November-December 2012
Pictures in the Square
… There was once a quirky pizza joint called Ruggles that made pizza with cheddar instead of mozzarella—an interesting if not compelling culinary … occupied a small storefront on Mass. Ave. in the heart of Harvard Square. “I have a memory of sitting in Ruggles …
Issue: November-December 2009
The Presidency, Pending
… Feverish speculation notwithstanding, the Corporation did not use its regularly scheduled meeting with the Board of Overseers during the first weekend in February to present … January 31, when Nobel laureate Thomas R. Cech, president of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, called the Crimson …
Issue: March-April 2007
At Home with Harvard: Harvard on the Small Screen
… This round-up is part of Harvard Magazine’ s series “At Home with Harvard,” a … watch, listen to, and do while social distancing. Read the prior pieces, featuring stories about the history of … that Sesame Street stemmed from Harvard—but I’m not surprised. In the late 1960s, Sesame Street co-founders Lloyd …
The Food Waste Problem
… For one of the world’s leading experts on food waste, visiting a … Stepping into her local Whole Foods, clinical professor of law Emily Broad Leib notices something awry in … rising, in face of persistent hunger and worsening climate crises. In September 2015, the United States declared its …
Issue: November-December 2021
Mercury on the Brain
… The pregnant women did not worry about their food. They simply ate it: chunks of fresh whale meat and pounds of fish. They ate it because they were hungry. They ate it …
Issue: May-June 2004
The Hydrogen-Powered Future
… 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 … starting projects with such determinedly sea-level enterprises as multinational corporations, real-estate developers, …
Issue: January-February 2004
The Bottomless Sport
… The immaculate courts of Wimbledon are sown from perennial … in Zambia, Andrew Rueb ’95, M.Div. ’04, played on a surface of cow dung and molasses. “Actually, the courts played fine,” he explains. The problem was that …
Issue: May-June 2021
A Thumb on the Scale
… funds for undergraduates from families with incomes of $60,000 or less, the College estimated that 73.9 percent of matriculants came … in our study told us that he was not at all surprised by the finding that admissions at these highly …
Issue: May-June 2005
The Talk, 2023
… “Get Out of Your Own Way” Imparting life lessons to the seniors in his final baccalaureate address, on May 23, … as a student helped me understand that there are many ways of knowing and understanding the world beyond the study of …
Issue: July-August 2023
Expanding the Professoriate
… Samuel Gompers, a founder and first president of the American Federation of Labor, succinctly summarized its aims as "More!" It is …
Altering Course
… Of the nearly 100 quadrillion British thermal units of energy (BTUs) used each year in the United …
Issue: May-June 2015