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Styled Blue Yonder
… The images have so much air in them: high above the ground, … its editor, Jessica Ambats ’95, belongs to the small cadre of those who make such pictures. Her airborne shoots … for non-commercial civilian flying. ( Plane & Pilot is one of the three biggest general-aviation magazines.) Ambats …
Issue: March-April 2014
Plants on a Changing Planet
… Maryville , Tennessee, lies near the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains, a range home to … going to have the biggest impact in the future.” Expect surprises, Taylor says. The earliest theories about how …
Issue: May-June 2024
Harvard Portrait: Elizabeth Hinton
… Elizabeth Hinton’s fascination with the past started early. “As a little girl, I used to ask my … what I called then ‘the olden times.’” One central piece of family history concerned their decision to leave Georgia … 1940s. One night, a white man sat down far to the rear of an otherwise empty bus, and when Hinton’s grandfather …
Issue: March-April 2017
Lost Sleep Is Hard to Find
… residents, cramming undergrads, and anyone else burning the candle at both ends: get very little sleep for days, … pull an all-nighter, and then crash for an extra-long night of shut-eye to catch up. Ten hours of sleep at once may … attention every four hours. The researchers were surprised to discover just how much an extended rest boosted …
Issue: July-August 2010
Reading Is Elemental
… In my dentist’s office , when I was a child, was a sign that ran: Without teeth there can be no chewing. Without chewing there can be no … in my ideal schooling, a familiarity with authors would arise as three successive cycles of literary acquaintance …
Issue: September-October 2011
Popular Science
… For thousands of ordinary people around the world, one of biology’s hardest problems is just a game. Both …
Issue: January-February 2014
Harvard Portrait: Jon Hanson
… The first time Smart professor of law Jon Hanson lived on wheels, he was managing a restaurant and sharing a trailer with his high-school sweetheart, Kathleen. The newlyweds had bought the trailer cheap …
Issue: November-December 2015
Wrought from Ruins
… The mayor of Braddock, Pennsylvania, John Fetterman, M.P.P. … From Braddock’s ruins, he believes, something new can rise that balances what its residents need—jobs, services, commercial enterprises—with what newcomers can contribute. “Braddock isn’t …
Issue: September-October 2010
Big D
… prevailed at Harvard Stadium on November 22, and so did the home team. With a titanic defensive performance, Harvard shut out Yale, 10-0, topping off a 9-1 season and securing a share of the Ivy League championship. Harvard won the Ivy trophy a …
Issue: January-February 2009
Electoral Eccentricity
… Americans elect our presidents as we do: spending billions of dollars on campaign hoopla and social-media flame wars, and then turning the whole shebang over to the bewiggery of an Electoral College? Stirling professor of history and …
Issue: July-August 2020
“Good” Cells Gone “Bad”
… The good boy who turns to crime because he lives in a bad neighborhood is a common fixture of popular culture. Now that narrative has a newly discovered analogy in the world of cell biology. Professor of stem cell and regenerative …
Issue: September-October 2010
Finding Work That Works for You
… be. This can be a blessing--or a burden. Some people like the freedom to switch careers or to develop a different … clients I see range in age from 22 to 68," she says. "My profession exists because millions of people need help … 'Here's how you do it,'" he recalls. "I was a little surprised to see them doing it now." Capello had, in effect, …
Issue: March-April 2002
A New Dean Designs without Borders
… ideas from Mohsen Mostafavi when he begins his term as dean of the Graduate School of Design (GSD). On a late September visit to Harvard, …
Issue: November-December 2007
Cambridge 02138
… have I read anything as arrogant as Stephen Peter Rosen's " The Future of War and the American Military " (May-June, page 29). As … brushes aside the manifold existing institutions and enterprises that are seeking to develop balances between security …
Issue: July-August 2002
Norse Calypsos, et Cetera
… The polymathic Nicholas D. Humez ’69—silversmith, … author, banjoist, classical philologist, composer of operas and string quartets, poet, cartoonist, music critic, professor of mythology—has a new opus, a suite of tunes …
Issue: July-August 2005