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Origins
… There was a single birch tree that had overtopped the other … thick, and as Lok watched, impossibly thick. The blob of darkness seemed to coagulate round the stem like a drop … even had language, which is generally thought to have arisen between 300,000 and 400,000 years ago. They were, in …
Issue: September-October 2001
Elizabeth Bishop
… By the time Elizabeth Bishop settled into her apartment on the … it is not surprising that she would spend the final years of her life in Boston and Cambridge, where she taught at … poem not meant for publication. North and South , the title of her first book, maps the great rift between her …
Issue: July-August 2005
Universities’ Financial Straits: A Moody’s Retrospective
… In the credit-industry equivalent of a thriller, Moody’s … now.") In practice, Moody's notes, these conditions gave rise to “institutional preference for more borrowing to pay …
Off the Shelf
… The Efficiency Paradox: What Big Data Can’t Do, by Edward … Carrying the mania too far backfires (“even an excess of water can be lethal”), especially if good old-fashioned … subtitle), which she helps effect through a social enterprise with the same name as her book. On a less …
Issue: May-June 2018
Fogg Art Museum Renovation Under Way
… Updated January 26 The complete renovation and reconstruction of the Fogg Art Museum—closed in June 2008 so its art could … been that the work would be let out for bid in the spring of 2009. But the financial crisis and the scope of the Fogg …
On Reading Well
… Publisher Paul Dry ’66, Ed.M. ’67, has reissued The Fields of Light: An Experiment in Critical Reading (Paul … much a teaching rather than a research-publishing enterprise.” The method, he summarizes, was “asking what the poem …
Issue: July-August 2013
George Bucknam Dorr
… July 8 marked the centennial of the founding of the Sieur de Monts National Monument in …
Issue: September-October 2016
One for the Books
… De profundis: Whatever else the football team may accomplish this fall, its second-half … League opener at Brown Stadium was a monumental endorsement of the tautological old saw that it's never over until it's …
Issue: November-December 2004
Focus on West African Women
… The Harvard Film Archive screens the complete works of this … shifts, and the immigration experience. The Two Faces of a Bamiléké Woman (2016) documents her own return trip to …
Issue: January-February 2025
Frontiers...
… that track physical activity are ubiquitous. But using them to generate medically useful information, such as predicting an elderly person’s risk of falling, is not straightforward: daily changes in schedules and weather alter activity. Associate professor of medicine Kun Hu, instructor in medicine Peng Li, …
Issue: May-June 2020
The Campaign, Concluded
… Five years after the public launch of The Harvard Campaign, the University … parents, and others sustained an annualized pace of giving of more than $1.4 billion. According to the …
Issue: November-December 2018
Grow, Make, Eat, and Imbibe
… Way before teenagers mixed it with Coke, rum was the drink of choice in Colonial America. Families drank it … libation at his 1789 inauguration. By that date, millions of gallons of molasses from the Caribbean were being shipped …
Issue: January-February 2014
Wartime Legalities
… A t 6 a.m. in western Baghdad, the thermometer has already punched through 100 degrees … Camp Victory. As Colonel Mark Martins, J.D. ’90, takes off for his thrice-weekly 5.7-mile run, he pushes to keep up … of those relying on some form of forensic data is on the rise. “Iraqi judges by and large understand these concepts,” …
Issue: March-April 2008
Allston: Harvard's 50-Year Plan
… Ten million square feet of new buildings, as many as 12,000 new jobs, and many billions of dollars: the numbers alone suggest the scope of Harvard’s plans over … enrollment in engineering and applied sciences expected to rise only by about 140 during the next decade, “We do not …
Sailing Solo
… During his five-days solo at sea this June, professor of economics and decision sciences James K. “Jim” … time. “You…sleep for just 15 or 20 minutes; wake up; check the course, the wind, the sail trim, the navigation; check … Rhode Island and St. George’s, Bermuda—a trip that comprises the one person, or “single-handed,” leg of the …