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Nuclear Treaties and the Russo-Ukrainian Conflict
… In this interview, Matthew Bunn , the Schlesinger professor of the practice of energy, national security and foreign …
The Middle-Class Trapdoor
… in America will live through a bankruptcy between now and the end of the decade. And it's not the working poor, credit-crazy … a single wage. "The whole economic picture was one that surprised me, because it's not the story we tell ourselves about …
Issue: January-February 2004
Books behind Bars
… thought he’d spend his days in prison. But in 2005, when offered the post of librarian at the Suffolk County House of … was writing his magnum opus: an autobiography detailing his rise from a childhood of physical abuse by his mother to a …
Issue: January-February 2011
Off the Shelf
… $29.95). He is a senior editor at Parabola, she is a professor of religion at Smith, and this is an epic—well written, … this most human undertaking from its beginnings and around the world. The Brightening Glance: Imagination and …
Issue: March-April 2006
Transitions Gradual and Cataclysmic
… oceans and marshes, is home to an extraordinary range of life. It is also the source of the food—and air—that sustain humanity, and of … melt and warming ocean waters expand, sea levels will rise much higher than the six to eight inches they climbed …
Issue: May-June 2021
Off the Shelf
… How to Read the Bible: A Guide to Scripture, Then and Now ( Free Press, $35 ), by James L. Kugel, formerly Starr professor of Hebrew literature (see “ Final Architect ,” …
Issue: March-April 2008
"I used to have to drag myself out of bed at 6 a.m. and go to work."
… out financial and marketing advice related to diabetes. The rest of the time she just lives with the disease. "I feel pretty … that was negative into a positive force," she says of Close Concerns ( www.closeconcerns.com ), the diabetes …
Issue: September-October 2003
Admissions after Affirmative Action
… Nationwide , members of the class of 2028 are now engaged in their coursework, like … reviews, white and Asian American enrollments would rise as a share of the student body. But Yale has been …
Back to the Future
… Striding through the newly rebuilt barn at his Sanborn Mills Farm, in Loudon, … “that I suppose I want to provide access to a different way of living than what, for lack of a better term, is often … setting up liminal spaces, preparing for transporting surprises: ‘Aha! Moments.’” Although Cabot never spoke with his …
Issue: November-December 2019
Where the Bones Are
… Documentary accounts of the historic past seldom capture the flavor of daily life hundreds of years ago. But broken pipestems, …
The New Gutenberg?
… If Jerome Rubin '44, G '46, LL.B '49, has his way, the morning newspaper of the future will look a lot like it does now--except that we won't toss it in the recycling bin at the end of the day. "On your breakfast table, you'll have one …
The Keystone XL Pipeline
… issues have prompted more controversy recently than whether to build the Keystone XL pipeline. Proponents contend … Canadian tar-sands oil, would sharply accelerate emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2), with global climate consequences … train carrying Bakken crude. Problems, of course, can also arise in pipeline transport. An Exxon Mobil pipeline carrying …
Issue: November-December 2013
Mohsen Mostafavi named dean of Harvard Graduate School of Design
… Link to news release ... … Mohsen Mostafavi named dean of Harvard Graduate School of Design … Mohsen Mostafavi named dean of Harvard Graduate School of Design … article …
Forum: Is Harvard Complacent?
… Consider this irony: Harvard and other elite American research universities, so crucial to innovation in almost every area of our lives, find it almost impossible to innovate within … boundaries.” 1 Higher education, the ultimate siloed enterprise, is adept at neither. Would a university with fewer …
Issue: September-October 2021
Brian Farrell in Bugdom
… At a research station in the Dominican cloud forest, Brian Farrell has just seen, out of the corner of his eye, a prize buzzing by. Ditching his … Older than the Hawai'ian or Galápagos Islands, Hispaniola rises abruptly from the Caribbean to a mountainous interior. …
Issue: September-October 2003