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Arctic Meltdown Turns Up the Heat
… At the Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied … She notes that the number of fires in the region have risen between 2015 and 2017, and the rise in temperature contributes to a dry climate that is …
The Making of the Cake
… Perhaps the most talked-about feature of Harvard's 375th anniversary … Boston's Flour bakery, the 15-by-18-foot H-shaped cake comprises 60 individual red velvet sheet cakes , frosted with …
Allston Ambitions
… anticipated construction and renovations through 2034. The University owns approximately 358 acres of land in Allston, but the institutional master plan (IMP) … facilities—not the privately developed commercial enterprise research campus and other projects being built on land …
Issue: March-April 2025
“Become Better ‘Citizens of the World.’”
… Study abroad , now encouraged and integrated into the College experience, was largely absent in the late 1980s, recalls Jay Winthrop, principal of Douglass Winthrop Advisors LLC, a registered investment … exposure a priority—and urges students to take advantage of any chances to travel abroad to learn a language, gain …
Issue: September-October 2011
The Poor Payoff of Pleasure Postponed
… For all the hand-wringing over their failure to amass savings, … disciplined. So says Harvard Business School assistant professor Anat Keinan. A need to feel efficient, and a … and even immoral. Keinan and Columbia Business School professor Ran Kivetz call this hyperopia —the habit of …
Issue: September-October 2009
Off the Shelf
… The Age of Science: What Scientists Learned in the Twentieth … Century, by Gerard Piel '37 (Basic Books, $40). The founder of Scientific American offers an elegantly written, … '80 (McGraw-Hill, $24.95). Here's an insider's story of the rise and demise of the first genetically engineered whole …
Issue: March-April 2002
The Active Life
… Doris, played tennis almost every day for 50 years. Now in their 80s, they still meet weekly with a coach, albeit “He does a lot of running,” Robert reports, “and we hit a lot of balls.” … chi, Pilates, and “aquarobics.” The fitness center features machines with air-compression, push-button operations (no …
Issue: November-December 2005
The Political Solicitor General
… The most political case of the indelibly political Supreme … Lazarus didn’t pay a lot of attention to how the rise of this group affected the S.G.’s office , beyond the … of the S.G.’s role as counselor to the Court now rarely arises from threats to its “independence” by other political …
Issue: September-October 2018
The Humanities, Digitized
… “ If you feel queasy , I can turn this off,” offers Peter Der Manuelian . At the flight controls of a small aircraft, the King professor … media and networked communication have changed the way crises unfold in a community. “When you have real-time …
Issue: May-June 2012
Marion Cotillard Honored as Woman of the Year
… to striped tights, glitter make-up, and high heels, members of Hasty Pudding Theatricals accompanied Marion Cotillard in a parade through … nation’s oldest undergraduate drama troupe as their “Woman of the Year.” Cotillard waved and smiled at the boisterous …
The Work of the Whole Life
… Over the years , I have often been asked how many students attend … our schools. Their share in our community might surprise you: in any given year, Harvard educates approximately …
Issue: May-June 2017
The Power of Touch
… Metaphors of touch infiltrate our language. When something goes … smooth sailing ; an uncouth person is coarse . We have a soft spot for someone we love; the opposite is being hard-hearted . In fact, it is …
Issue: November-December 2010
The Power of Torture
… Nowhere in the pages of the Malleus Maleficarum (The Hammer of Witches), a …
Issue: March-April 2010
The World’s Costliest Health Care
… L ONG BEFORE the presidential primaries, or a paralyzing pandemic, … by the national elections, that mattered to the future of the country—and that would probably be addressed … terms of health value received for dollars spent, may surprise you. It has certainly proven resistant to political …
Issue: May-June 2020
The Privacy of the Classroom
… How private is a Harvard classroom—the space protected for free exchanges of ideas between teacher and student-learners? That issue … organization will operate with an advisory committee comprised of faculty members, and that, for each …