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The Layered Histories in Black Family Keepsakes
… Historian Tiya A. Miles conjured the haunting image of a cotton sack for her audience at a … her newly released book, All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake . The bag tells …
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 …
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
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
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 …
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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
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
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
"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
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
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 …