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American Society Unglued?
… In 1979, a team of psychologists posted themselves at several stop signs in suburban New York and … capitalists,” as he awkwardly calls his conclusion, will rise to that level. Putnam’s earnest conclusion sounds more …
Yesterday’s News
… 1924 The statue of John Harvard is moved from the Delta, west of Memorial Hall, to today’s position at University Hall. … tutoring [are] elevated to…a large scale commercial enterprise,” thus enabling some undergraduates to pass courses …
Issue: March-April 2014
The “Water Cooler” Effect
… Chatting around the water cooler may yield more than office gossip; it may … Harvard Medical School (HMS) investigators. The benefits of collaboration are well accepted in the scientific world, …
Issue: May-June 2011
Capital Punishment’s Persistence
… Among the reasons why the United States might be considered … with China, Iran, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia, it ranks as one of the world’s top executioners. Because most countries have abolished capital punishment, the U.S. retention of the death penalty is anomalous, especially among Western, …
Issue: January-February 2016
An End to Evasion
… Among the unsung heroes of the twentieth century is Raphael … 1941 and died in 1959, alone and penniless. As the "Father of the Genocide Convention" (the only inscription on his …
Issue: September-October 2002
Yesterday’s News
… football season—with Harvard scoring a total 215 points to their opponents’ 21—the Crimson achieves its first victory … wartime role. 1958 Plans are complete for an extension of Leverett House, which has given Mather Hall [renamed Old … to ensure that black, Hispanic, and Native Americans comprise 10 percent of Harvard faculties by 1990, the centennial …
Issue: November-December 2013
Vita: Felipe Poey
… In a drawer in Harvard’s Museum of Natural History lies a skeleton of Lachnolaimus maximus , the hogfish, its delicate bones wrapped in a yellowed, …
Issue: July-August 2014
Large Successes
… tapa might suffice at lunch, perhaps partnered by a glass of Di Lenardo Pinot Grigio ’06 ($7) and consumed outdoors on the terrace on a soft afternoon. Consider choosing the New Bedford seared …
Issue: July-August 2008
The GSAS Centennial Medalists
… The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Centennial Medal, first awarded in 1989 on the occasion of the school’s hundredth anniversary, honors alumni who …
Issue: July-August 2010
A Plague Reborn
… There is a tenacious little bug that infects one in three … to evade detection, but this one is unusual because most of the two billion people who carry it don’t even know … you might not engender resistance in the same way.” The Rise of Drug Resistance With support from the Harvard …
Issue: July-August 2008
In Esteemed Company
… awarded honorary degrees from Harvard this year. Besides the Commencement speaker, U.S. Secretary of Energy (and Nobel laureate in physics) Steven Chu, the … through a period of profound change brought about by the rise of new technologies. Superlative political scientist, …
Yesterday’s News
… 1924 With more than a thousand freshmen enrolled in the College and the Engineering School combined, President … his annual report that Harvard will have to shrink the size of future classes or reduce services to its students until the number of qualified teachers increases. 1939 “The Undergraduate …
Issue: January-February 2014
Documenting New England’s Unseen
… At a dinner early in my freshman year, I received a piece of advice that has stuck with me ever after. Latanya Sweeney, professor of the practice of government and technology and the first … my confidence in it. Then that fall, to my welcome surprise, scholar, filmmaker, and former Harvard College fellow …
Issue: September-October 2021
Unbelievably Good
… What's up with Ryan Fitzpatrick? Might this soft-spoken junior from Arizona be the most talented quarterback to play football for Harvard since the glory days of all-American Barry Wood '32? "The guy's amazing. He's as …
Issue: November-December 2003
Karts Get Some Respect
… at Popular Science , is said to be a longtime expert on the way men entertain themselves when no one is telling them … bulrushes. Almost literally: The downhill chicane [a series of tight turns] leading onto the main straight at Oakland … That’s right, go-karts. Those things that Americans think of as Cushman-engine amusement-park rides, but that …
Issue: March-April 2006