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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 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
Marion Cotillard Chosen Woman of the Year
… Stellar dramatic performances, such as the very first scene French actress Marion Cotillard shot … earned her the Hasty Pudding Theatricals award as “Woman of the Year.” “My feeling was that, in that situation, which … and performer at a marine park who becomes the victim of a horrific attack in which a whale bites off her legs …
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
The Art of Stem Cells
… Jennifer Quick , a Ph.D. candidate in the department of the history of art and architecture, stood before her audience in the …
Cranberry Harvest Celebration
… canned to zest up roasted turkeys, Native Americans used the indigenous North American fruit for food, medicine, and … with an eye toward commercial use by Captain Henry Hall, of Dennis, Massachusetts. Today, the fruit is the state’s … wagon to the bogs of the A.D. Makepeace Company to watch machines whisk the water to loosen berries, which then float …
Issue: September-October 2016
Debating Divestment in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences
… scheduled faculty meeting—which happened to fall on the day after President Donald Trump moved formally to … from the Paris Agreement on climate change—the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) formally docketed “a discussion … of these ice sheets could result in sea level rise of 2 meters by the end of this century and 6 meters by …
“Beauty Will Save the World”
… In the flurry of special talks, community celebrations, and previews building up to the Harvard Art Museums ’ official reopening on November 16, commentators have …
The $3-Billion University
… Harvard came within an eyelash of crossing the $3-billion threshold in annual revenues and expenses for … the Corporation. In the current fiscal year, those figures rise to 5 percent and 6 percent respectively, followed by 5 …
Issue: January-February 2007
The Context: Life on the Mesopotamian Marshes—and the Specter of Drought
… This is the sixth post of "The Context"—a biweekly series of archival …
The Placebo Phenomenon
… ’s first randomized clinical drug trial, nearly a third of his 270 subjects complained of awful side effects. All the patients had joined the study hoping to alleviate severe … an elaborate set-up in which the doctors lay in fMRI machines specially equipped to enable them both to see their …
Issue: January-February 2013
Land of the Living
… Dressed in fleece and caps, binoculars slung around their necks, they enter by the Egyptian Revival gateway at 7 … Water and the flowering shrubs and trees attract thousands of migrating birds to this urban oasis each year. The birders’ hopes of hearing them, if not seeing them, rise with the sun. Nestled in the arms of a copy of Lorenzo …
Issue: May-June 2017