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Greening China
… Three decades of rapid economic growth in China have been accompanied by severe environmental degradation. In July 2007, the Financial Times headlined an article about a World Bank … at 3.8 percent of China’s GDP. As its citizens’ incomes rise with the rapid economic growth, these valuations will …
Issue: September-October 2008
Messages from the Plant World
… The idea that mild stress might lead to health benefits is … the concept has a name: hormesis. Plants given low doses of an herbicide, for example, can actually become stronger … and grow better. Harvard Medical School associate professor David Sinclair’s discovery that a family of plant …
Issue: September-October 2005
An Exercise Pill for the Brain?
… One of the many benefits of endurance exercise (a topic covered extensively in a 2004 … cover article and subsequently), is that it stimulates the growth of new brain cells and improves cognitive …
Seeing the Forest for Its Trees
… went hiking. Mount Tamalpais State Park, Muir Woods, and the Point Reyes National Seashore--among the most diverse … landscapes in the nation--are all within easy reach of the city and quickly became as familiar to her as her own … says. “Nature was our church.” Now president and co-CEO of the Pacific Forest Trust (PFT), Wayburn is still a …
Issue: May-June 2010
Football: Harvard 53, Brown 27
… Memo to the Brown University football team: When it’s the third … a fourth down and 50 yards to go, and you snap the ball out of the end zone for a safety that raises your deficit to … on September 19, Harvard thus swept the Ocean State portion of its program. The Crimson’s total was the most points it …
University People
… ( Commencement Confetti , July-August 2017, page 19), dean of freshmen Thomas A. Dingman said he will step down next June. Dean of the College Rakesh Khurana made the announcement on …
Issue: January-February 2018
“Big, Fat, and Sick” Institutions—Can Digital Healthcare Help?
… The U.S. healthcare system is “Big, fat, and sick.” So said professor of medicine Jag Singh , speaking at a recent conference in …
Extracurriculars
… Seasonal The 27th Annual Brickbottom Open Studios … 22) Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society www.boxoffice.harvard.edu Christmas in Sanders includes seasonal … (a poet and writer) discusses her research on the apparent rise of illnesses such as autoimmunity. (December 10) …
Issue: November-December 2014
Election Results
… The names of the new members of the Board of Overseers and the newly elected directors of … Angeles. Bedrosian chair in governance and the public enterprise; director, Bedrosian Center on Governance, Price School …
Issue: July-August 2014
America’s Little Giant
… called her soon-to-be husband, just before she met him, “the great, little Madison.” She was about to turn 26, a … and had been left with their toddler son and a small amount of money. James Madison Jr. was 43, a congressman from … her. She accepted his proposal because he was “the man who of all others I most admire.” The marriage, she wrote, would …
Issue: January-February 2018
“Insider Luck”
… The compensation of top American corporate executives has … regulatory reasons, stock-option grants have largely comprised “at-the-money options”: rights to purchase shares at … information that suggests the stock price is about to rise. But our research enables us to conclude that …
Issue: March-April 2007
Off the Shelf
… Anthill, by E. O. Wilson, Pellegrino University Professor Emeritus (W.W. Norton, $24.95). The Pulitzer Prize-winning myrmecologist, sociobiologist, … Alabama roots, but his Harvard experience, in defense of wildlife, is at the Law School. Last Looks, Last Books, …
Issue: May-June 2010
The Director’s Half-Decade
… With The Harvard Campaign concluded and a new University president in office, the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) has pivoted to … is charged with engaging a wildly diverse cohort of 371,000 alumni worldwide. Starting with the class of …
Issue: May-June 2019
Unraveling the Universe through Puzzles
… Puzzles offer opportunities for exercising mental dexterity while passing the time on rainy days. But Cumrun Vafa sees them in a much … an amazingly clear solution.” And cases like this do arise in his current field, particle physics, he says. “You …
Issue: September-October 2020
Cartography Animated
… Mapmaking, especially before the Enlightenment, had as much to do with imagination as … strange, quasi-mythological creatures in the far reaches of the ocean. Imposing megafauna trod across early colonial-era maps of Africa and Asia, enticing explorers to exploit their …
Issue: March-April 2021