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A Box of Pox
… Benjamin Waterhouse, M.D. (hon.) 1786, called smallpox the "devouring monster." Today it is the only naturally … from Jenner to Waterhouse and so inscribed, arrived full of quills impregnated with cowpox vaccine matter. Waterhouse … to me what the sun is to the moon…." Portrait courtesy of the Harvard University Portrait Collection, ©President …
Issue: May-June 2003
Mumblecore’s Maestro
… interview with Andrew Bujalski—in a chichi Manhattan hotel, the morning of the theatrical release of his latest movie, Results —were … and by the end, “It’s just not…conventional. I’m always surprised by that. I’m always rather shocked that what I’m doing …
Issue: September-October 2015
The End of the “Course”?
… On April Fools’ Day in 2009, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) announced the end of printed versions of its iconic Courses of Instruction …
Caliphate of Terror
… This year, a group of international terrorists announced its intention to affect an election with the goal of replacing a government that favored the Iraq war with one …
Issue: July-August 2004
The Talking Cure
… and risk-management departments have told doctors that if they make a mistake, the last thing they should do is admit … talk openly to patients even when harm occurs in the course of medical care. In 2001, the national accrediting body for … that the total spent on compensating patients would rise by about a quarter, from $5.6 billion to $7 billion a …
Issue: March-April 2008
Who Killed the Men of England?
… There are no signs of a massacre --no mass graves, no piles … the researchers explored how such a pattern could have arisen and concluded that a massive replacement of the native … there is evidence of this in genetic data should be no surprise.” An even more remarkable history, says Reich, is told …
Issue: July-August 2009
On the University's Agenda
… As the academic year ended, University leaders in various … International Harvard Allston In a briefing for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) at its May 6 meeting, President … would ultimately serve other Harvard buildings as they arise nearby. Bioengineering One tenant for that science …
Issue: July-August 2008
Controlling the Global Thermostat
… Climate change may be the most inexorable catastrophe the human species has ever … be made, and feasibly paid for? How high will sea level rise by 2050? By 2100? Given rich nations and poor ones, and … we could become carbon-neutral tomorrow,” says the director of the Harvard University Center for the Environment, “the …
Issue: November-December 2020
The Business of Fighting Cancer
… M.B.A '85 , a former alumni achievement award winner at the school, has turned her personal experience, following … her diagnosis with multiple myeloma (a fatal cancer of the plasma cells) in 1996, into her new profession, as founder and CEO of the Multiple Myeloma …
Man, Mongoose, and Machine
… Standing outside a Sri Lankan army base in the spring of 2007, Thrishantha Nanayakkara mapped an entire … on his computer. A mongoose hitched to a robot did most of the work. Courtesy of Thrishantha Nanayakkara Two linked …
Issue: September-October 2008
The Politics of Paying for HIV Care
… As one of four institutions chosen in 2004 to administer the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), … Harvard oversees patient care at 10 hospitals and a network of clinics, and operates a drug distribution network, in …
Issue: September-October 2010
The Human Side of Cancer Treatment
… at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in last year. The former Harvard Business School staff member wrote this … personal piece about her oncology nurse, and the human side of cancer treatment, as a capstone for her master’s in … of cancer treatment and the series of patient issues that arise moment to moment, the end of an oncology nurse’s shift …
The China Trade
… The earliest United States trade with China, it may be hard … such goods as tea and textiles, and amounted to tens of thousands of dollars, rather than trillions. The … outward today. Unlike the great European joint-stock enterprises—the Dutch East India Company and its British …
Issue: September-October 2012
Off the Shelf
… The Rise and Fall of American Growth, by Robert J. Gordon ’62 (Princeton, $39.95). In a huge study of the U.S. standard of living since the Civil War, the …
Issue: January-February 2016
Off the Shelf
… Yeltsin: A Life, by Timothy J. Colton, Feldberg professor of government and Russian studies ( Basic Books, $35 ). A monumental biography of the flawed, but democratic, Russian president. Mean and … Music Shed, and the precursor to the Internet. The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State, by Noah Feldman, professor of law …
Issue: May-June 2008