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Harvard at 400
… Imagining the future —however risky it is to make predictions—can be a … starts with an idea. Every creation springs from a vision of something that does not exist, but might. Such first … force, is essential. Holding in mind a detailed image of a wished-for outcome can be a powerful step in creating …
Issue: September-October 2011
Who Let the Dogs Out?
… The Yale bulldog, muzzled by Harvard for five straight … out an Ivy League season made memorable by the exploits of Crimson running back Clifton Dawson, Yale’s 34-13 victory gave the Eli the co-championship of the league (shared with Princeton) and consigned Harvard …
Issue: January-February 2007
Open Book
… Michael Ignatieff, Ph.D. ’76 and former professor at the Harvard Kennedy School, is a professor at, and former … with: the tidal force of political malice that recurrently rises and threatens the hard-won civility on which a …
Issue: March-April 2022
Scaffolding and Science
… Photograph by Jim Harrison Byerly Hall is known to tens of thousands of would-be Harvard College students as the home of undergraduate admissions. No longer. Those …
Issue: September-October 2007
How to Beat the Heat
… Go to the bottom of the world and (almost) to the top. You’ll be … I was an enthusiastic English concentrator, but I was surprised now to learn so much about the English department of … to occupy his time on a train journey to Chicago. I was surprised to learn that Professor John M. Bullitt, the first …
Issue: September-October 2013
Zane Grey
… Those who’ve heard of Zane Grey usually identify him as the author of best-selling westerns, but few realize that he was the …
Issue: November-December 2006
Off the Shelf
… Wrong Place, Wrong Time: Trauma and Violence in the Lives of Young Black Men , by John A. Rich, M.P.H. ’90 (Johns Hopkins, $24.95). The author, now a professor at Drexel University School of Public Health, offers …
Issue: March-April 2010
Health Benefits to Cost 7 Percent More
… As the annual employee enrollment in health and other benefits … year 2017: The health programs will look similar to those offered last year , retaining the basic structure of … then modified slightly for 2016). And premium costs will rise, on average, 7.0 percent—only slightly below the …
“Doctor Bugs”
… through a Peruvian rainforest looking for ants, Mark W. Moffett, Ph.D. ’87, accidentally sat on a deadly fer-de-lance … Kenya, and India, he barely escaped stampeding elephants. Then there was the time in Colombia, while tracking the … for his newest book, The Human Swarm: How Societies Arise, Thrive, and Fail (Basic Books), which was published in …
Issue: May-June 2019
Nuclear Weapons or Democracy
… The most fateful object yet to appear on this planet could … top-secret information and tools that enable the president of the United States to launch a nuclear strike. The … to war. Scarry’s book makes clear that the social contract arises from the need to prevent the injuries that people …
Issue: March-April 2014
Cross-country by Ski
… Growing up west of Boston, Chris City ’94 began Nordic skiing as a child, … criss-crossing his own backyard, later gliding through the town forest, along ungroomed trails, to a nearby lake. … and elsewhere have contributed to the “slow and steady” rise in popularity of cross-country/Nordic skiing in New …
Issue: November-December 2013
A Goodly Company
… in a little town on Cape Cod. I would ride my bicycle to the local library, housed in a converted Victorian house … dark, cool and musty inside. There I experienced the thrill of independence and—owing to the ten book borrowing maximum—the agony of choice. I spent hours considering and reconsidering my …
Issue: September-October 2014
Grabbing Flu by the Neck
… Scientists may have found the Achilles heel of flu viruses. Researchers including Wayne A. Marasco, an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, and …
Issue: January-February 2010
Thinking Small
… manipulate objects and forces at a scale one-millionth the size of the period at the end of this sentence. At that size, … the Casimir force after a Dutch theoretical physicist, arises from quantum fluctuations of the vacuum rather than …
Issue: January-February 2005
Honoris Causa
… Commencement. University provost Alan M. Garber introduced the honorands in the following order, and President Drew … Jarvis Thomson. Moral philosopher and metaphysician, a professor of philosophy emerita at MIT. Doctor of Laws: Eminent moral …
Issue: July-August 2016