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… The northwest science building houses the Center for Brain … and (coming soon) entire collections from the Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ). But the impressive façade, … staircase that connects the first floor to those above and rises from landing to landing without support pillars in …
Issue: November-December 2008
“The Instrument of Your Fate”
… The life lesson that grasped my soul was born amid the throes of war: If one does not manage the instrument of his fate, … truth, yet we have not fully embraced the reality. I am surprised to find myself a typical case study for veterans with …
Off the Shelf
… and Warlike Democracies, by William S. Smith (University of Michigan, $70). Harvard, widely known as a liberal … managing director of Catholic University’s Center for the Study of Statesmanship, plumbs the political thought of … promotion of the habit and product, through the rise of activist citizen nonsmokers who waged a fight for …
Issue: November-December 2019
The Brink of Revolution
… How to make sense of the U.S. Supreme Court? “Judicial opinions…can defy easy … nine men and women who make up the Court intrigue and surprise us.… Of course, an effort to understand the Roberts …
Issue: September-October 2014
Spirit of Giving
… The University Campaign, concluded at the end of 1999, … Foundation endowment for a program at the Kennedy School of Government; and the gift for the new Bauer Center for …
Issue: January-February 2002
The Off-Kilter Economy
… By most measures, the U.S. economy weathered the pandemic recession. But even … growth, for example, that would normally presage a period of prosperity, paired with declining output of goods and … and housing. Less affected are people who own assets, which rise in value during inflationary periods, and homeowners …
Issue: November-December 2022
Back to the Bond Market
… The University issued $601 million of tax-exempt bonds and … to fix the rates on variable-rate obligations that could rise in the future, or both. Harvard initially filed to sell …
Issue: January-February 2011
The Shape of Sound
… During her junior year of college, Jessica Shand ’22 discovered topology—a branch of mathematics that studies how far shapes can stretch and morph …
Issue: May-June 2025
The True Magic Pill: Why Exercise Outperforms Every Drug for Health and Longevity
… In the bottle before you is a pill , a marvel of modern … the risk of heart attacks and — this was somewhat of a surprise — both kinds of stroke." (Ischemic stroke, caused by …
Issue: March-April 2004
The Eighth Day of the Week
… President Lawrence S. Bacow opened the fall term on September 4 with a Morning Prayers address, … president speaks in Memorial Church on the first day of classes. Bacow spoke about the virtues of reflection and contemplation, recounting an informal …
A New Way of Being in the World
… Chapek and pug mix Kafka , begin madly snarling at each other. “What are you doing, and why?! ” she demands. She … 14 books, from anthropology texts to novels to studies of cats, deer, and canines. The Hidden Life of Dogs (1993)—for which she traveled to the Canadian Arctic …
Issue: September-October 2019
Repairing a Beating Heart
… If there is a holy grail in robotic surgery, it would be … business that can involve temporarily depriving the heart of oxygen, clamping major vessels, and connecting a … to pull three-dimensional images out of existing ultrasound machines in real time, and into our image-processing …
Issue: May-June 2022
College Admits 7.5 Percent of Early Applicants
… Today , 722 of 9,553 early-action applicants were admitted to the College class of 2027. This 7.5 percent acceptance rate … which lower-income families qualify. African Americans comprised 14.4 percent of the class (up from 13.9 percent last …
The Harvard Club of Boston Turns 100
… The Harvard Club of Boston, founded “to give effective expression to the Harvard spirit,” kicked off its centennial celebration with a rousing New Year’s Day …
Issue: March-April 2008
The Deficit Danger
… At the time of the last presidential election campaign, four … a variety of stories about how the saving rate would rise in step with the government's borrowing, or how … 1990s. Much of what happened during that time—the rise of the "militia" movement, the wave of ugly xenophobia, …
Issue: January-February 2004