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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 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
A Bioethics View of Brain Organoids
… Bioethicist Insoo Hyun has spent a lot of time thinking about brain organoids over the past several years. A frequent collaborator of Paola … their armchairs wouldn’t necessarily come up with.” They arise from the everyday churn of laboratory science, and …
“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
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 …
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
Buildings and Benefits
… The story of Harvard's 2003 budget came down to benefits and … open and are financed, operating and interest costs rise; during the year, debt outstanding increased about $400 … remain low. Health-benefit costs continued to surge, having risen nearly 90 percent during the past five years, and …
Issue: January-February 2004
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
Industrial Lives
… Professor Donald Davenport of the Harvard Business School hoped to teach the incipient … them, from 115 companies. These images of men, women, and machines are today among more than 20,000 photographs at the …
Issue: January-February 2007
The Music of Birds... and Whales
… In 2000, David Rothenberg ’84 arrived at the National Aviary in Pittsburgh at … settled in to “jam with the birds.” It was the first of many sessions there, and others abroad—from Estonia to Australia, where he played in a sanctuary with “one of the shyest yet grandest singers in the world, the …
Issue: March-April 2007
Striving for “A Real Mix of People”
… In the 1980s, David Price ’77 lived in the Upham’s Corner section of Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood. “It was down and out … based. Nuestra owns the land on which Bartlett Place will rise, and is preparing to build there in four phases during …
Issue: January-February 2014
The Mystique of Red Top
… The long list of past results is studded with footnotes that illuminate some of the more peculiar races. In 1870, for example, “Yale ran …
Issue: May-June 2010
A Culinary Tour of the New Smith Campus Center
… With the opening of the new Smith Campus Center this semester, the Harvard … for Swissbäkers, which originated in Canada—serve a variety of foods and fuels, from bagels to barbecued pork, and stay …