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Altering Course
… Of the nearly 100 quadrillion British thermal units of energy (BTUs) used each year in the United …
Issue: May-June 2015
Decoding the Alphaviruses
… The coronavirus pandemic was caused by a virus that made the … and effectively to such viruses requires some foreknowledge of how they enter human cells—often by using a receptor common to several species. Armed …
Issue: May-June 2022
Orchestrating Attention: “The Most Substantive Work You Can Do”
… to thinking, found her usual refuge, Oakland’s Morcom Amphitheatre of Roses, closed. Instead, as she told viewers tuning into the Graduate School of Design’s online Class Day ceremonies, she began walking …
Tighter Times
… Harvard is not immune to the vicissitudes of the economy. During the fiscal year … for FAS. Now that distributions from the endowment will rise only a percent or two for the foreseeable future, …
Issue: January-February 2003
Misguided Mind Fixers
… The rapid rise of biological psychiatry assured that, … bound to overreach. It did so spectacularly, argues Ford professor of the history of science Anne Harrington, as …
Issue: May-June 2019
Prenatal Competition?
… Complications from pregnancy and childbirth are the leading cause of death and disability among women between the ages of 15 … plants and mammalian pregnancies, genetic conflict arises from the competing interests of maternal and paternal …
Issue: September-October 2006
Harvard Nears Selection of Allston Development Partner
… The Harvard Allston Land Company (HALC), charged with developing the University’s “enterprise research campus” (ERC) commercial area in Allston, has narrowed the field of candidates for development of that 14-acre parcel off …
"Stories Are Powerful"
… The day would be about people and stories, not statistics … Harvard public-health scholar Mary T. Bassett at the start of Thursday’s summit on the opioid crisis. And it was. At … addiction with same-sex marriage, which has seen a dramatic rise in favorable opinion during the past few decades. “In …
Off the Shelf
… The Crimson Letter: Harvard, Homosexuality, and the Shaping … thúy (Knopf, $18). A heralded debut novel portrays the life of a Vietnamese family in America, as seen through the eyes …
Issue: May-June 2003
Can America’s Tattered Civic Life Be Repaired?
… editor Jeffrey Goldberg on Tuesday evening, kicking off a conversation at the Harvard Institute of Politics on the tattered state of … Washington called ‘factionalism’”—allows demagogues to rise up and take control, inflaming divisions while …
Steven Spielberg’s “Family of Strangers”
… , Steven Spielberg loved toy trains—specifically, crashing them together—and this obsession was what first brought him to film. After one too many instances of broken trains, his father threatened to take the toys … Humanities Center , the filmmaker spoke about themes of childhood and family in a conversation with Rothenberg …
From the Archives: Animal Research
… The volume of biomedical research, and of trials of new therapies, has increased dramatically in recent decades, …
Near Misses
… They each had their shot. After a season that yielded some … men’s and women’s basketball teams, both came up just short of reaching the NCAA tournament. For the men, the shot at … three-point shot that would have tied the score. It caromed off the backboard, but the Crimson grabbed the rebound, …
Issue: May-June 2018
Stinging the Dinosaurs
… Hölldobler and Edward O. Wilson, Pellegrino University Professor emeritus, in The Superorganism: The Beauty, Elegance, and Strangeness of … now possible to press far ahead in this fundamental enterprise of biology. … An excerpt from The Superorganism: The …
Issue: November-December 2008
The Virtual Road to a Dream Home?
… mortgage company affiliated with his Internet bank. "The frontman was smooth, easy to talk to," Fowler reports. … justified." So far so good. Then the the loan was handed off to the underwriter. That person, Fowler found out, "was … people log on to buy, sell, and research homes, questions arise about how helpful the strictly electronic route really …