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Cancer’s Global Toll
… with leukemia has an approximately 90 percent chance of survival, but in the world’s poorest nations, 90 percent of such children die of the disease. This disparity was at …
Blanche Ames
… Blanche (Ames) Ames and her husband, Oakes Ames, professor of botany at Harvard and director of the Arnold Arboretum, were in the middle of the Yucatan …
Issue: July-August 2017
Your Money, or Your Life?
… which life insurance to buy. He wanted to know what turned them on. “Our job,” he asserts, “is to keep the flame of true desires alive.” Make no mistake. Kinder is a keen … a stereotypical number-cruncher. He meditates for a couple of hours every day and says nothing in life is as real as …
Issue: July-August 2008
Eleanor Rathbone
… Seventy years ago, on April 13, 1933, a debate took place in the House of Commons over how the British government should respond to … on the left—spoke up against revising the Treaty of Versailles under the threat of force. A Germany …
Issue: March-April 2003
Spring Sampler
… Photographs by Jim Harrison unless otherwise indicated. Objects © President and Fellows of Harvard College Here begins an excursion through Harvard collections in search of evidence of the vernal equinox. The first sign is found …
Christopher Reed , Jennifer Carling
Issue: March-April 2002
Bishop Redux
… Some writers have an uncanny way of becoming more prolific after their deaths than they ever were while living. Elizabeth … that he write his Ph.D. thesis on Bishop’s work: “To my surprise, because she never talked about her work, even with …
Issue: March-April 2011
So Long for a Time
… years each class produces a reunion report in which members of the class may tell what they’ve been up to and what’s on … and selection the life that we take for granted has arisen. On the precarious top of which our collective …
Issue: January-February 2015
Attention to Detail
… On the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, interspersed amid … into creation, Adam and Eve banished from Eden—is a series of 10 bronze-painted medallions depicting scenes from the … work.” In the decades since, Callaway and his enterprise branched out in wide, and sometimes wild, directions …
Issue: March-April 2021
Clock Enthusiast
… David Bisno ’61 has time on his mind these days – timekeeping, that is, as well as a mini-museum of horology that he has inaugurated in the clock tower of the picturesque Santa Barbara Courthouse. Thanks to “a …
Issue: September-October 2012
Claudia Goldin: Why Do Women Still Make Less Than Men?
… still make less than men ? Claudia Goldin, Henry Lee professor of economics, shares the reason why working mothers still earn less and advance … couples? They too have couple inequity, but they don't give rise to gender inequality. Nancy Kathryn Walecki: Okay, now, …
Favorites
… For this annual round-up of Cambridge eateries, the editors asked a range of Harvard faculty and staff … I continually find dishes that involve pleasant surprises, such as ‘artichokes with straciatella cheese and …
Issue: May-June 2007
A Soft Bot That Jumps
… For most people , the word “robot” conjures up the image of a lumbering … they can fabricate robots with the exact opposite features—soft, pliant, and mobile—using 3-D printing. Today in …
Yesterday's News
… Noting a trend among American universities toward improving the quality of student dormitories, the editors remark, "The average … "the superiority of Americanism and free enterprise." 1957 The College extends upperclassmen's …
Issue: January-February 2002
And Then There Were 10
… On July 5 , the Corporation’s Web page—itself a relative novelty for … startling transformation: after 361 years, with the listing of three new members, the ranks of the Fellows expanded from … reunion. That rekindled her engagement and led to her surprise election as a director of the HAA, and subsequently to …
Issue: September-October 2011
Grading Game
… Are grades inflated in the College--and does it matter? Debate over these questions … C. Mansfield Jr. '53 (summa cum laude), Ph.D. '61, Kenan professor of government--is pursuing a novel tack to raise it … affirmative-action thesis, unsurprisingly, provoked a reprise of the reaction it evoked in 1993. Deans denounced it …