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Stars, Bulls, and Bears
… an investor trying to decide which mutual fund will make the most of her retirement savings. As she reads prospectuses, the … every prospectus warns, "past performance is no guarantee of future results." Furthermore, track records say little …
Issue: May-June 2003
Ask Not, Want Not?
… When asked what they would like for graduation presents, many members of the class of 2002 were nearly speechless. Something must be up. While …
Issue: May-June 2002
Harvard Portrait: Naomi Oreskes
… When Naomi Oreskes wrote an article in 2004 summarizing the scientific consensus on climate change, she recalls, “I was treated as if I had thrown some kind of grenade.” Public discourse at the time treated global … warming as an active scientific debate, but the history of science professor, who arrived from the University of …
Issue: July-August 2014
Harvard Professors Recognized for Teaching and Advising
… At the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) meeting on May 1, … teaching and advising, in several categories. He named the following faculty members Harvard College Professors , FAS’s highest distinction for undergraduate …
Fixing a “World on Fire”
… How to handle a “world on fire,” in the words of Janet McCabe ’80, J.D. ’83, deputy administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), was the …
Maine Delights
… Arrows sits on a wooded country road about half a mile from the coastal town of Ogunquit. Eighty percent of the food served is grown in gardens out back; the …
Issue: January-February 2006
Soda and Violence
… Already implicated in the obesity and diabetes epidemics, soda may be linked to … violence in young people, new research suggests. In a study of 1,878 students at Boston public high schools, heavy soda … about by accident. While seeking to document the incidence of violent behavior among the high-school …
Issue: November-December 2012
Making Credit Safer
… impossible to buy a toaster that has a one-in-five chance of bursting into flames and burning down your house. But it … is possible to refinance your home with a mortgage that has the same one-in-five chance of putting your family out on … carefully or seeking legal assistance should not be surprised if terms come to light later that are unfavorable to …
Issue: May-June 2008
Science Surges
… Applied Tech 1 Harvard’s Office of Technology Development and Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have launched the Grid: a hub for funding, mentorship, and education … for their philanthropy and said they hope the new enterprise will spur cooperation among “cognitive scientists and …
Issue: November-December 2022
Can Harvard Advance Social Justice and Inclusion?
… to confront social justice, and particularly racism, on their campuses—a challenge that has been expressed, at … attempted to draw attention to racism at Harvard. For much of last semester, a group of law students calling themselves Reclaim Harvard Law …
Divest Harvard Makes Case for Dropping Fossil Fuels
… A group of University community members—faculty, alumni, and the student group Divest Harvard—urged the University to … in the Charles Hotel yesterday. The event marked the start of this year’s “Heat Week”—a series of events intended to …
Profiling, Good and Bad
… It's the beginning of a holiday weekend, and the line through the airport security checkpoint is backed … the country. Although many Americans considered such "profiling" unjust, others considered it fair and based on …
Issue: January-February 2004
Animals Speak Color
… To delight and instruct, The Language of Color at the Harvard Museum of Natural … mouse of central Florida, Peromyscus polionotus subgriseus , left, lives in the dark soil and dense vegetation …
Issue: November-December 2008
“Villanelle” Choral Arrangement Debuts
… 375th anniversary during Commencement Morning Exercises, the University invited former faculty member Seamus Heaney, … his reading, the Commencement Choir came to the front of Tercentenary Theatre, arranged themselves on the Memorial … Church steps to face the audience, and sang the premiere of a musical setting of the work, composed for the occasion …
Ethics in Practice
… Every Tuesday afternoon at the Kennedy School of Government, over lunch, a group of 10 … weigh ethical considerations every day as new situations arise. The center supports programs that exercise …
Issue: May-June 2007