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Why Americans Love to Hate Harvard
… from 1971 to 1991 and again on an interim basis during the 2006-2007 academic year, faced the challenge of helping the University recover from the shattering … from a decade of stagflation, the stock market started to rise, and the endowments of elite universities began a sharp …
Issue: March-April 2024
The Democracy of Everyday Life
… It started with a bully . “The noise bully,” Nancy Rosenblum calls him, a man who lived in her Cambridge loft building years ago and tormented the family next door … Winthrop’s argument. “The democracy of everyday life rises from the ground of day-to-day reciprocity and …
Issue: September-October 2016
Cancer-fighting Robots
… In the not-so-distant future, a new kind of robot, one of the … Science , Douglas described a method for creating tiny machines—roughly the size of a virus—out of strands of …
Issue: September-October 2012
Paths of Learning
… a testament to his energy, vitality, and ambition that, in the ninth decade of his life, the business school's Alfred Chandler '40, … emeritus, has written two new books. The volumes comprise a series entitled Paths of Learning: The Evolution of …
Issue: July-August 2002
“Shoddy”: The Noun
… illustrated trek, Hanna Rose Shell guides readers through the history of the reprocessing of used clothing and textiles, … wool rags in what were christened “devils,” grinding machines equipped with sharp teeth. Recycled waste and other …
Issue: March-April 2021
Miniature Worlds
… Look through the hole, and a world appears in miniature: a train chugging … village squares, and fairs across Europe. Relatively few of the fragile creations survive, but two are housed at Harvard Business School’s Baker Library. The peepshow’s rise mirrored the rapid expansion of Europe’s material …
Issue: May-June 2025
The Mystery of Smell
… In the early weeks of the pandemic, as scientists and … brain is devoted to processing visual information. No surprise, then, he says, that from the beginning, modern … loss. After COVID-19, that number seems almost certain to rise. “The implications of this virus are huge,” Holbrook …
Issue: November-December 2021
Above and Beyond
… Beyondorders.org helps U.S. service members “rise above the call of duty” to aid Iraqi civilians. Tin-Yun Ho ’07 (’08) …
Issue: May-June 2008
Greenland’s Fingerprint in Rising Seas
… Scientists who study the impact of melting glaciers and ice sheets have for the … data can be used to improve predictions of global sea-level rise, and help identify (or at least constrain) regional …
Mark I, Rebooted
… The Mark I , the first programmable computer in the United … were made. Likewise in attentive attendance were dozens of the machine’s electronic descendants: smartphones, … long way in the last 70 years in thinking about what these machines can do,” he concluded. “I hope we’ve learned how to …
The High-rise Ecotopia
… first home, in Manhattan, it’s an ecological catastrophe of energy consumption. Green Metropolis: What the City Can Teach the Country about True Sustainability … damage that humans have done to the environment has arisen from the burning of fossil fuels, a category in which …
Issue: November-December 2009
The Future of the HAA
… enthusiasm for Harvard's bicentennial anniversary in 1836, the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) was originally a small group of men led by former U.S. president John Quincy Adams, A.B. … The alumni population is now nearly 300,000, reflecting a rise in professional-school enrollments during the last 50 …
End of the Melting Pot?
… In 1986, after receiving amnesty under the Immigration Reform and Control Act, Jorge Montes began … manufacturing city outside Atlanta, because it reminded him of his hometown in Mexico. He and his wife could afford a … on immigrants have declined since the 1960s (with the rise of multiculturalism and “group rights”), immigrants …
Issue: May-June 2007
Nieman Foundation Leader Departs
… will step down July 1, ending a 14-year tenure as head of the University-housed journalism organization. A current … disruption, including the move from print to digital, the rise of mis- and disinformation, the growth of social media …
The "King of Palindromes"
… word—one that would convey Kay’s questionable character and the conditions under which a yak would engage in adult … Saltveit flipped through the handmade, 200-page dictionary of 29,000 palindromic fragments he’d constructed over the … if yak lived.” With this single sentence, in the ballroom of the New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge, Mark …
Issue: September-October 2021