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Globalization Defended
… Offering a confident defense of globalization, now assailed by many critics, Harvard … delivered this year's Edwin L. Godkin Lecture Series at the Kennedy School of Government on April 7, 8, and 9. He …
Issue: July-August 2003
What Causes Cancer
… microbiologist. His sports aspirations have been thwarted of late (he is a San Francisco Giants loyalist), but not so … Harold E. Varmus, A.M. '62, S.D. '96, were awarded the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for … unifying explanation for how most or all cancers might arise. The track is paved with cells." The excerpts that …
Issue: March-April 2003
Health Professionals for a New Century
… The future of public-health education was the topic of the day for public-health researchers, …
Love Nest
… travelers in Egypt. One may buy or rent similar marquees there today for public functions, much as Harvard hires a host of tents each year to protect celebrants during Commencement … other astonishments, and attended, no doubt, by a retinue of servants. They married October 30, 1879, in Boston. …
Issue: July-August 2009
Touching Young Lives
… " Early Learning ," the January-February 2012 cover story, explores how the … about the center's work. See scenes from Little Sisters of the Assumption Family Health Service, a Touchpoints site … … Explore the work of the Brazelton Touchpoints Center and Dr. Berry Brazelton …
Issue: January-February 2012
Finding Faith
… Fresh from a UNESCO-funded summer of writing at the Civitella Ranieri Foundation in Umbria, Faith Adiele '86 … In Cambridge, she poured her energy into such enterprises as co-chairing the refugee committee of the Phillips …
Issue: November-December 2004
Corita Kent
… went straight from high school into a convent in 1936, and then, improbably, became a Pop artist in the 1960s. She … College, which was run by her order, the Immaculate Heart of Mary in Los Angeles, often taking her students to local galleries and museums. …
Issue: September-October 2015
Pins for Women
… Tiny pins with their delicate metal fasteners still intact, some more than … ballot—likely a distant dream to the suffragists of a century ago. Political pins have been in use for at least 200 years, explains Kathryn Jacob, curator of the pin collection at the Radcliffe Institute’s …
Issue: November-December 2016
Secret Errors Kill
… There is a story told about the early years of IBM, when an … avoided. To the unhappy employee, this seemed like a form of slow torture. Finally he asked why Watson didn't just get …
Lives Intertwined
… For years, side by side with a photograph of my best dog ever, I've kept on my office mantelpiece Mathew Brady's portrait of the 11-year-old Henry James and his … one morning in October 1923, Charlie Chaplin pays a surprise visit to the poet Hart Crane ("I was smiling into one …
Issue: July-August 2004
Albert Bickmore
… Bickmore, S.B. 1864, started out cataloging specimens in the basement of Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ). He had come to study under …
Issue: September-October 2008
“Don’t Zoom While Driving”
… 23, Harvard students’ experience with newly remote styles of learning began, as spring recess ended but classes resumed with their students dispersed around the globe, exiled from … differences between taxi companies and ride-sharing enterprises, from how one summons a ride to driver safety to …
Brevia
… Departure Jay O. Light, who was appointed interim dean of Harvard Business School (HBS) in August 2005 and dean the following April, announced on December 2 that he will … titled Bubbles, Panics, & Crashes: A Century of Financial Crises, 1830s-1930s (on display through May 3 and at …
Issue: January-February 2010
Wintergreen for President
… Images courtesy of the Harvard Theatre Collection When the Harvard Band trots … "Wintergreen for President." That's John P. Wintergreen, of course, the candidate of love, the greatest lover in a …
Issue: September-October 2004
Swerves
… on topics ranging from creation to religion to death. The format for his observations, many of them highly technical and uncannily modern, was a single … as a child would drink bitter medicine more readily out of a cup with a honeyed rim. He was right. In later …
Issue: July-August 2011