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How Coupons Keep Drugs Costly
… assistance programs are popular ways to save money at the pharmacy counter. But research by Rauner professor of business administration Leemore Dafny, the Jay … often go toward the purchase of those drugs. “I was surprised that there were quite a number of conditions where a …
Issue: January-February 2023
Ups and Downs with Harvard
… Although we are all assembled at this gathering because we have been 25 years at Harvard, today I am privately celebrating 53 years of attachment to Harvard, to which I first came when I was … I learned, by bitter experience, to submit whole packets of request-slips, because at least half always came back …
Issue: November-December 2001
“This Craving to Fly”
… In a darkened alley next to the Cleveland Public Theatre, the crowd stares up at a … Then she wraps the ropes around her arms and is held aloft, her hands and body free, appearing to float above us … Later, she translated those talents into work as a professional high diver in the gritty underworld of amusement …
Issue: November-December 2006
Lows and Highs
… There were frost warnings for northern and western … upon the Commonwealth: umbrellas were wielded to ward off the sun. The symbolism seemed almost too broad, in a … But mostly she drew on Boston’s heartbreaking reprise of New Yorkers’ heroism on 9/11, with first responders …
Issue: July-August 2013
Geoffrey Canada: “You Might Be the Greatest Generation Yet”
… Today Geoffrey Canada, Ed.M. ’75, L.H.D. ’01, president and CEO of the nonprofit Harlem Children's Zone , delivered the Harvard …
Finding Sunshine in the Slum
… It’s important to be fleet of foot in Kibera. Traversing trash piles, bobbing and weaving along the edges of open sewers, one must take care to step on dry ground …
Issue: November-December 2009
New Leader, New Look
… The Harvard Club of Boston, established in 1908, has elected … Belmont resident Karen Van Winkle ’80, vice president of business development and marketing for Creative Office … has been among those who helped launch and oversee the renovations that have transformed the Commonwealth …
Issue: September-October 2016
Who Is Poor?
… If poverty means more than just the weight of a wallet, the world’s poor may be more … believed. World Bank estimates put the population of global poor at 1.44 billion people--but a recent poverty …
Issue: January-February 2011
“Soft” Robots: The Starfish Variation
… Move over, R2D2 : a team of Harvard University researchers led by Flowers University Professor George M. Whitesides has designed a robot that can … prove useful one day in earthquake-relief efforts or on the field of battle. Measuring just five inches long, the …
Life in Shadows
… The Harvard Theater Collection has recently acquired from a London dealer a unique set of 124 miniature Indonesian shadow puppets and the gongs, drums, and other instruments of a full gamelan orchestra, 160 pieces in all. Made of …
Issue: May-June 2005
University Hits Emissions Target
… its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 30 percent during the past decade, the Office for Sustainability announced today. The University’s … were necessary to help prevent a greater than two-degree rise in global average temperature. Climate and weather …
Interview with the Baby Whisperer
… T. Berry Brazelton , clinical professor of pediatrics emeritus at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and founder of the Brazelton Touchpoints Center at the HMS-affiliated …
Gyroball Historian
… In the fall, the Tokyo publisher Asahi Shinsho released a new … title in Japanese, loosely translated as The Unknown Story of Matsuzaka’s Major League Revolution, a 250-page paperback recounting the saga of star pitcher Daisuke (DICE-kay) Matsuzaka’s rookie year …
Issue: January-February 2008
Tackling Teaching and Learning
… For the third time in a decade, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences … teaching. Along the way, all sorts of complicated issues arise. A basic one is the proper expectation for teaching in …
Issue: March-April 2011
Living History
… In 1990, as workers peeled off dark brown burlap-like wallpaper, removed old ceiling … Jo and Maxwell “Mike” Solet ’70, J.D. ’74, began to view their 1862 Italian villa in Cambridge as much more than a … of the University’s Peabody Terrace housing—iconic high-rise concrete towers designed by Josep Lluis Sert in the …
Issue: September-October 2006