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Factor That Reverses Aging of Heart Discovered
… Researchers at the Harvard Stem Cell institute have discovered a substance in the blood of young mice that reverses a major effect of aging in the hearts of old mice. The substance, called …
Reverence for the Object
… "...in every prosperous municipality in the land, in the next ten years the call is likely to come … Harvard must maintain its leadership in this new profession, the dignity of which is as yet imperfectly … very idea that art is in any sense an autonomous enterprise or that its highest achievements often add up to a good …
Issue: September-October 2002
The Yard Crew
… Every spring, after the desiccating winds of winter, lush green grass sprouts in … maturity just in time for Commencement—when throngs of jubilant students and proud parents promptly trample it …
Issue: May-June 2011
How the Ivy Tournaments Began
… The original decision to create post-season basketball … in the 1970s and 1980s—wanted the tournaments as well. Some of the league’s ADs, however, were unconvinced. Penn’s Steve … Beckett, Yale’s former AD. “…Are 14 exams the best measure of the best team, or is it who is playing the best at this …
Think Locally, Eat Globally
… Venezuelan food is served in an intimate dining room at the newly opened Orinoco (56 JFK Street, 617-354-6900; … Arepas, grilled corn-pocket sandwiches, come with a variety of fillings; we liked the black beans and a white salty … works well for groups. The menu features a wide selection of vegetarian dishes along with some more unusual specialty …
Issue: May-June 2012
Developing Danang
… In central Vietnam, well north of the tropical Mekong Delta (see “ A Nation, Building ”), … increasing complexity in a mixed economy. New office towers rise near the Han River, and the waterfront features an …
Issue: May-June 2014
They Said...
… Serious rhetoric prevailed for much of this Commencement, not yet seven weeks past the post-Boston Marathon bombing manhunt that shut the city … and the foundations of our nation’s research enterprise.” Faust reviewed the university-public research …
Issue: July-August 2013
You Play the Mall Developer
… Teachers of negotiation use role simulations, powerful learning devices that help students internalize theory in a compelling way. I play the representative of an opera company who wants to explore a deal to hire a …
Issue: March-April 2004
The Brain As Art
… in France—Carl Schoonover ’06 cuts a stylish figure in the lab at Columbia’s doctoral program in neuroscience. But … on inside the head than what grows on top. The convergence of the aesthetically beautiful and the scientifically compelling forms the heart of Schoonover’s Portraits of the Mind: Visualizing the Brain …
Issue: July-August 2011
Harvard’s Class Gap
… The gap between coastal elites and America’s white working … class has been growing for decades, but in the wee hours of November 9, America’s intellectuals discovered that they … For some, the gap exposed by the election has given rise to understandable feelings of moral superiority toward …
Issue: May-June 2017
A Life in Tai Chi
… After rolling around on the floor for a play’s fight scene, Jessamyn Conrad ’00 was … House affiliate and the senior adviser and chief instructor of Harvard’s Tai Chi Tiger Crane Club. An expert in kung fu, … at the milk machine or something and said, ‘I’ll take care of it,’” Conrad recalls. Lee firmly massaged her bruises for …
Issue: November-December 2020
Libraries on the Edge
… But now budgetary pressures that have been building during the past decade, and intensified in the past year, threaten the ability of the world’s largest private library to collect works as … pace with inflation, while the cost of printed materials rises 9 percent a year. The budget of the Harvard College …
Issue: January-February 2010
Gravid and COVID
… As early as February, when SARS-CoV-2 was spreading across the country but long before the virus was declared a national emergency, Sonia Hernández-Díaz, a professor of epidemiology at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public …
Raising the Barre
… Roaming the creaky wooden floors of The Dance Complex on a Sunday, … combination. Castanets clicking amid the staccato thwack of flamenco dancers’ thick-heeled shoes striking the floor. …
Issue: January-February 2016
Harvard College Applications Level Off
… reported today that 34,295 people have sought admission to the class of 2018—about 2 percent fewer than the record 35,023 … there is now strong demographic evidence that a two-decade rise in the number of high-school seniors in the United …