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Mysteries of Mate Choice
… How do we choose romantic partners? The question has long interested sociologists, who … for answers. These widely available records generally offer useful demographic information on those who tie the … their racial background and education level. But in an era of rising divorce rates and increased cohabitation, when …
Issue: May-June 2012
Counting the War Dead
… How lethal are modern methods of warfare? Political scientists affiliated with the International Peace Research Institute (PRIO)—the … that produces the most commonly cited estimates of war deaths worldwide, in collaboration with Uppsala …
Issue: November-December 2007
A Pediatrician Takes the Long View
… I am a converted pediatrician. A product of Harvard Medical School in the 1950s, trained almost entirely in adult medicine, I … CGD gene. The stem cells carrying the correct genes give rise to normal functioning granulocytes that can eat and …
Issue: January-February 2013
The Interim Agenda
… until a permanent successor to Lawrence H. Summers takes office. In late March, shortly before his second visit to … with Harvard Magazine . • On possible disarray within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) or other parts of the … be a lot shorter than last time. I will be mightily surprised if I am still in Massachusetts Hall past June of …
Issue: May-June 2006
Behind the Scenes: Digging into the archive
… When I started working on the September-October feature about Harvard Library’s … The University has such a vast and expanding universe of specialized archives and research units, and I knew there was a collection of materials covering Jewish life, art, literature, and …
Is Nuclear Power Scalable?
… Heinz professor of environmental policy John Holdren, who holds a joint appointment in the Faculty of Arts and Science’s department of earth and … needed to fuel a power plant) can easily use those same machines to enrich the U-235 to 80 or 90 percent, the …
Issue: May-June 2006
College Curriculum Change Completed
… On May 15, at its sixth consecutive weekly meeting (the normal schedule is monthly), the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) voted to adopt the proposal for a … domain. During the May 15 discussion, however, she did rise to advise her colleagues that it would be “my privilege …
Transforming Portraiture and the World
… and novelist Toni Morrison, Litt.D. ’89, emerges from the white background of a painting by contemporary portraitist Robert McCurdy. … Gift of Ian M. and Annette P. Cumming To his surprise, Thompson discovered that 15 of the Cumming subjects …
“The Impression That You Exist”
… Amid all the naysaying and upbraiding and doom-forecasting directed … president emeritus Neil Rudenstine (a poetry scholar) offered a restrained, if comparatively sober, assessment: … his manifold perspectives (administrative, personal, professorial) to assess that most ossified of dilemmas: the …
Eye on Iran and Israel
… Bemis professor of international law Noah Feldman ’92, JF ’02, sees … Bush's practically unconditional support for Israel, and the potential for the United States's position to change … the United States. Feldman is the author of The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State . You can read the rest of his …
Problems with the Protocol
… The Kyoto protocol is to date the only international … agreement that calls for action to reduce emissions of CO 2 . Yet the Harvard scientists and economists who study climate change express almost universal criticism of the accord, which they fault as economically inefficient, …
Issue: November-December 2002
The Pandemic's Unequal Toll
… As the data from the COVID-19 pandemic begin to accumulate, a … disproportionate toll on poorer Americans and communities of color. According to figures from the Centers for Disease Control, black Americans make up 13 percent of the country’s population but one-third of confirmed COVID …
Encouraging Antibiotic Innovation
… One of the chief obstacles to finding new antibiotics is that many … According to a report by the Infectious Diseases Society of America, just five major firms were engaged in antibiotic … weeks. Moreover, because resistant infections are on the rise, newly approved antibiotics are held in reserve, to be …
Issue: May-June 2014
Ride the Wave
… in beach traffic when you can board a boat and cruise the open water? Anchored close to the Square, Community Boating Boston (community-boating.org) offers an assortment of lessons on the Charles River, from amateur-level courses …
Issue: July-August 2024
A Sunny Celebration
… Greater Boston had a cream-puff of a winter—particularly in comparison to the relentless battering of 2014-2015, when icicles by the … paused, and various times when students were supposed to rise, but did not, or upon being commanded to rise, were …