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The Zakim Center for Integrated Therapies
… The Leaonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Bridge, the new span connecting Boston and Charleston, honors the memory of a Boston citizen with a gift for building bridges between communities. Zakim died in December 1999 of multiple myeloma, a form of cancer affecting bone marrow. …
Issue: March-April 2002
Dirt Flies
… Construction is proceeding rapidly at the commercial enterprise research campus in Allston , where a hotel and apartment and office/laboratory towers (above) will rise alongside a …
Issue: May-June 2024
Feeding an Addiction
… As commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, David A. Kessler, … I provided some numbers documenting the tremendous rise in the incidence of obesity and explained the flaws in …
Issue: July-August 2009
"The Fires": How Mathematical Modeling Nearly Burned Down New York
… For a first book , it has quite a title. The Fires: How A Computer Formula, Big Ideas, and the Best of Intentions Burned Down New York City—and Determined the Future of Cities is the story of how, in the 1970s, New York’s …
Buttonhook and Aloha
… Talk about spectacular entrances: In his first game of high-school football, second-string quarterback Neil Rose … his team trailing and less than two minutes remaining in the fourth quarter. Rose's first pass connected for a … on the field." That fluidity includes the sleek combination of Rose and wide receiver Carl Morris '03, who last year set …
Issue: September-October 2001
The Renovated Harvard Coop
… in a Boston Globe op-ed, Joan Wickersham declared that “the renovated Coop is an embarrassment and a travesty,” … college textbook business during the past decade. “Sales of textbooks and trade books are supported by sales of higher-margin merchandise,” said Coop president Jerry …
The “Talking Feds” Podcast
… During the tumultuous Trump presidency, Los Angeles Times legal … had played in Watergate,” he explained. “There was a lot of interest in their supposedly specialized knowledge.” … 2019. The weekly show—which ranks in the top 1 percent of all podcasts—welcomes a rotating cast of expert guests to …
Class on the Grass
… The eighth hole at the Granite Links Golf Club in Quincy, … program in 1993. Balmert struck a good drive to the crest of a hill on the left side of the fairway. Blocked from sight of the hole, she hit a …
Issue: May-June 2009
Dual Dean
… While John Wilkes Booth looks on with something like fatherly pride, Lee Harvey Oswald kneels in the Texas Book Depository and sights the scope of a rifle, right at James Bundy ’81, artistic director of the Yale Repertory Theatre and dean of the Yale School of …
Issue: May-June 2017
Hold the Garlic Mustard
… , Alliaria petiolata, a European native, immigrated to the United States in the 1800s, says Kristina Stinson, … Other sources (viz., the on-line Invasive Plant Atlas of New England) suggest that settlers planted it for food … aggressive and menacing march through forests across much of the United States and Canada. Garlic mustard is a thug. …
Issue: July-August 2006
Gut Health May Begin in the Mouth
… study published Thursday in Science , an international team of researchers—including one from Harvard—reported on strains of oral bacteria that, when swallowed in the 1.5 liters of saliva that people ingest every day, can …
The University in “Contentious Times”
… Harvard’s alma mater, in 1632), on January 25 addressed the challenge of maintaining universities as places for honest, thoughtful … to the effect that freedom is not “a once-and-for-all enterprise. It is the constant renewal, reformation, and extension …
Radcliffe Institute Announces 2019-2020 Fellows
… The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study’s (RIAS) … engaging with one another. “This is a remarkable class of fellows,” said dean Tomiko Brown-Nagin , herself a … associate professor of sociology. “Reinventing Family: The Rise of Non-Normative Households in South Korea” Chaya …
The SIGnboard: SIG Snapshot
… Among the almost 50 Shared Interest Groups (SIGs) of the Harvard … and Urban Society_Alumni (HAUS_A), a group from “all fields of work and study” who seek “to make a difference in the …
Issue: January-February 2014
The Food-Climate Conundrum
… Thirty-five percent of food produced in the United States is never eaten; households are the largest … asked participants, “What gives you hope that we can rise to meet the food challenges of the twenty-first …