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Buy America
… Buy America John D. Spooner ’59, author of Do You Want to Make Money or Would You Rather Fool Around? (Adams Media Corporation, $19.95), gets … like changing the cellophane tape on the Translux ticker machines that ran all day, printing the trades on the New …
Paradise Found
… Tim Laman, Ph.D. ’94, again found himself more than 80 feet off the ground, hidden in a rainforest blind made of skinny palm … camera that took wide shots by remote control. At sunrise, two male Greater Birds-of-Paradise arrived. With …
Issue: January-February 2013
The Empty Seat
… For as long as I can remember, there has been a man sitting next to me in Row 00 of Section 28 at the Harvard Stadium: Robert D. Hall, class … public transportation was available. Despite occasional surprises—like the return train to Boston from a Penn game …
Issue: September-October 2003
Howell Jackson Acting Dean-Designate of Harvard Law School
… The University has announced that Howell Jackson has been designated acting dean of Harvard Law School, subject to current dean Elena Kagan's … confirmation as U.S. Solicitor General . Jackson is Reid professor of law . The text of the statement follows. Howell …
The DNA of World Literature
… Rainer Maria Rilke’s 1908 poem “Archaic Torso of Apollo,” written in German, is notoriously difficult to translate. The poem, about a fragmentary statue of Apollo, is dense with enigmatic metaphors: the speaker …
The Sweetest Thing
… In the mid 1980s, Ram Sasisekharan, Ph.D. '92, turned to tennis to ease the pressure of his intensive graduate studies in biophysics. His search … especially about their mutual interest in the structures of carbohydrates . Eventually, Sasisekharan turned those …
Issue: November-December 2003
Women in the Sciences
… Five professors and the dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) are jointly pursuing …
Ben Beach, Iron Man of the Boston Marathon
… The bombs that disrupted the Boston Marathon last April, … runners. Yet, behind the motto “Boston Strong,” the city of Boston and the marathon community itself determined to … and even reinvigorated. Take Ben Beach ’71. At the time of the explosions, Beach had run 21 miles of the …
Costs and Benefits of Connection
… his medical and academic career, an interest in end-of-life care led Nicholas Christakis to study the “widowhood effect”: people’s tendency to die soon after a spouse does. (The surviving partner’s chances of dying in the next three months increase by 30 to 90 …
Issue: May-June 2010
Messenger from Pakistan
… Amid what administrators and police said was the heaviest security ever for a Harvard speaker, Pervez Musharraf, president of Pakistan, told a packed audience at the Kennedy School of … the religious fanaticism that led to Osama bin Laden's rise: "Hate should have no market. It must be stamped out …
Issue: November-December 2002
Harvard Sustainability by the Numbers
… In celebration of Earth Day, on April 22, Harvard has released its annual sustainability report for 2016. Although the most notable achievement— a 30 percent reduction in … water use since the 2006 fiscal year? That 60 percent of campus landscaped areas are managed organically? Or that …
Loneliness—Bad for Body and Mind
… come to know its unfortunate mental toll at some time or other during the course of their lives—but medicine is increasingly recognizing the … , researchers from the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health found a link between chronic loneliness and …
Williamina Fleming
… As 21- year-old Williamina Paton Fleming steamed across the Atlantic toward Boston in November 1878, she had no idea … brightly the stars overhead would shine in her future. One of nine children of a Scottish craftsman and his wife, she … in the United States. Despite it all, “Mina” Fleming would rise to a key position in Harvard’s astronomy program and be …
Issue: January-February 2017
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Building—and Buying—a Campus
… "Is Harvard Running Out of Space?” ran a headline in this magazine in the spring of 1989. The answer, the accompanying article … the early 1990s mainly because the academic spaces the high-rise contained couldn’t easily be replaced at the same …
Issue: September-October 2011
What Can Be Done About Gun Violence?
… earlier this week, Steven Dettelbach, J.D. ’91, director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF), began …