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Stinging the Blues
… The bulldog got stung again in the final minutes of The Game. To football-loving Old Blues, these acts of Harvard waspishness must seem to repeat themselves like a …
Issue: January-February 2010
Mary Ellen Avery
… Mary Ellen Avery finally began to walk, at 19 months, her mother wrote, “Having discovered she could walk, she kept … steadily at it.” That observation characterized the rest of Mel Avery’s life. From childhood on, she clearly had an outsized sense of self and purpose and a zest for new experiences that help …
Amalie M. Kass , Eleanor G. Shore
Issue: March-April 2018
The Solid Fluid
… beautiful objects by manipulating it while it flows. But there is something curious about glass. Molten glass, as it … glass.) When scientists want to understand the properties of glass--what makes it flow at one temperature and jam up … denser and slower to mimic glass cooling. “The behavior of single molecules in glass can’t be observed,” says …
Issue: July-August 2010
Energy-Saving, Low-Cost Air Conditioning
… to 10 new air-conditioning units deployed every second for the next three decades. But traditional AC systems are far … from incoming air—a process that requires huge amounts of energy and utilizes chemicals with a greenhouse effect up … needs in poorer countries like Indonesia and India could rise to become as much as 75 percent of their current total …
Issue: November-December 2022
Museum-Hopping in Latin America and the Caribbean
… Whatever winds and whims may have blown you south of the border, any traveler in the Caribbean or Latin America … at times off-the-wall, so you’re bound to be happily surprised by whatever you encounter here. What next? Walk north …
Connecting Body and Soul
… 35-year-old Latina woman with two young children lies in the intensive-care unit (ICU) of a Boston-area hospital, dying from cancer. With no sign … most Americans placing a high value on faith, it’s no surprise that religious and spiritual beliefs can be a source of …
Issue: January-February 2017
Off the Shelf
… Taming the Beloved Beast: How Medical Technology Costs Are … A preeminent medical ethicist confronts the problem of life-saving and useful technologies—“the most visible and … (Princeton, $27.95). As government bails out old enterprises (banks, General Motors), might it stimulate growth by …
Issue: January-February 2010
News in Brief
… Physician-Writers on the Podium A pair of prominent physician-authors will be the … . Toehold in Allston As construction of the enterprise research campus proceeds in Allston, across Western …
Issue: May-June 2025
Cryptic Puzzle: “Is there a doctor in the house?”
… Download the puzzle Download the hints Download the solution You … – Manhattan, KS Segrid O'Gore – Seattle, WA Harold Porosoff – Scarsdale, NY Charlie Pritzlaff – Silver Spring, MD … – Farmington Hills, MI … Solve the most recent creation of puzzlemaker John de Cuevas ’52. … March-April 2013 …
The Shows Go On
… station, just after midnight on a Sunday and you’ll hear the thumping bass of hip-hop, the staccato pulses of rap, and the soulful … part of WHRB’s black music department, The Darker Side, comprise just a few hours of the station’s 24/7 lineup, which …
Issue: January-February 2021
The Crimson Triumphant
… The past quarter-century was an era of prosperity for … 30 individual athletes won national titles. These were some of the era's memorable moments: November 16, 1986 . After an …
Issue: September-October 2011
Peacemakers
… If there is going to be a two-state solution to the … conflict," says Robert H. Mnookin, "the rough outlines of what the deal might be are not terribly difficult to … to court, but through arbitration." Further disputes did arise almost immediately, says Mnookin, "because the …
Issue: March-April 2004
Allston Anticipation
… a letter to Allston residents reporting that all but one of Harvard’s marketable retail properties in the community had been rented. She wrote also that an … “work team has been gathering information from a range of sources both inside and outside the University to help …
The Sorority Scene
… In the months since I joined a sorority, I've had a lot of explaining to do. "Why do you need an official group to decide who your friends are going to be?" …
Reviving Black Classical Music
… In the mid-1850s, a blind, enslaved boy sat down at his owner’s … and sheet music made him the highest-grossing pianist of the century, but all the money went to his enslaver (or, … albums in addition to performing live, but the gigs comprise most of his musical income: his albums barely make …
Issue: November-December 2023