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… There is no florist in the lobby of Shriners Hospital for … such as Stephen Calderwood. Antibiotic resistance arises because traditional antibiotics kill the most … a strategy would avoid the selection pressure that gives rise to resistant strains. "Any drug that did this would be …
Issue: January-February 2003
One Woman's Education
… Conway has been fascinating readers, especially women, with the compelling story of her journey from sheep ranchers' daughter in the wilds of Australia to president of one of this country's foremost …
Issue: May-June 2002
Sliding Down the Slopes
… Need one good reason to get outside and embrace the cold? Snow tubing. The slick rides are like sledding—on … it gets, the faster you’ll fly down the slopes: at speeds of up to 20 miles per hour. “As the snow freezes more, it … There, 18 tubing lanes, each nearly a quarter of a mile long, are packed with man-made (and some natural) …
Issue: January-February 2019
Brevia
… Richard B. Myers Photograph by Jon Chase / Harvard News Office "Never before has there been a time when you can be more proud to be in public … July; depending on seniority and job class, those figures rise as high as $12.25 and $12.70, respectively. The …
Issue: July-August 2002
History Bronzed
… Harvard people with medals they aren’t sure what to do with have often given them to the University. Many of these impressions of history have fetched up in the …
Issue: March-April 2008
Scott V. Edwards
… Scott V. Edwards Photograph by Rose Lincoln / Harvard News Office Hatched in Hawaii, fledged in the Bronx, and sighted above with some of Harvard's 17,000 warblers is Scott V. Edwards '86, who …
Issue: July-August 2004
The Lowell Speeches Project
… Every year around Valentine’s Day, traffic on the Lowell House Speeches Project’s Vimeo page spikes. The first time this happened was the night of February 13, 2011, just after Meghan Cleary ’11, L … of Alexander’s sixth rule: “Afterlife.” This rule arises directly from Alexander’s personal experience: after …
Issue: September-October 2014
Charles Lieber Named University Professor
… Chemist Charles M. Lieber, a pioneer in the creation of bio-compatible electronics, has been named the inaugural Friedman University Professor, a new position endowed by Joshua Friedman ’76, …
Marian Wright Edelman Spoke Up for Children
… In her address to the class of ’93, Marian Wright Edelman, the founder and president of the Children’s Defense Fund, eschewed levity and …
Joseph Conrad’s Crystal Ball
… Many call Rudyard Kipling the scribe of the British Empire, but novelist Joseph Conrad … waning years and foreshadowed its demise. Around the turn of the last century, Conrad’s books portrayed terrorism in …
Issue: May-June 2014
Afropolitans
… In their version of the classic West African song, “Sweet Mother,” the band … Derrick N. “DNA” Ashong ’97. “But everyone can kind of feel the joy and vibe and the love in it.” Indeed, last …
Issue: September-October 2010
Christopher Gore
… In this spot stood Gore Hall...Built in the year 1838...Named in honor of Christopher Gore...Fellow of the College...Overseer...Benefactor...Governor of the …
Issue: November-December 2001
Yesterday’s News
… 1912 The Harvard Dental School announces plans to open an evening clinic, staffed by graduates, with nominal fees of 25 cents or less. 1917 With the country at war, Harvard’s … “Rather than enlist as a private, try to qualify as an officer…or as a specialist.” Universities, notes the …
Issue: March-April 2022
Thinking Archaically
… after graduating himself, receiving grants, winning awards. The whole “system” of academic art seemed to embrace him, “and if a system … “I felt like the work I was doing belonged to a sort of analog version of me,” he said, “a Romolo who was on a …
Issue: January-February 2024
The Harvard Corporation, Reformed
… Robert D. Reischauer, Senior Fellow of the Harvard Corporation, and President Drew Faust today … on that governing board’s operations and activities—one of the periodic updates to the community begun when …