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Snug in Seal
… The inhabitants of Japan's northernmost island enjoy cold that pierces and snow that … Ainu woman who possessed this sealskin coat could scoff at wretched weather and draw admiring glances …
Issue: March-April 2004
Reconfiguring Radcliffe
… The institutional transformation of Radcliffe into an center … Associates (VSBA) calls for the reclamation and renovation of the major buildings that define the historic Radcliffe …
Issue: January-February 2003
Books and Budgets
… The future may be digital, but the book is far from dead, … University Library director and Pforzheimer University Professor Robert Darnton. More books are published now than at any other time in history, and the number of new works published each year is growing fast. So, too, …
Issue: May-June 2010
Science Synergy
… With preliminary approval from the Harvard Corporation, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences has negotiated a merger with the … University? " January-February, page 64). Gordon McKay professor of applied physics Frans Spaepen has been named the …
Issue: May-June 2002
A Novel Refracting Harvard History
… ’63 and Hugh Shipley ’63 weren’t really friends until the fall of their senior year, although they knew each other on sight … trajectory for Ed Cantowitz, who leaves Harvard and quickly rises to the summit of the business world thanks to his …
Widener Reborn
… On the afternoon of October 1, three students with gleaming brass horns, from each of which a banner emblazoned with an "H" hung down, mounted the stylobate of Widener Library and blew a fanfare. …
Issue: November-December 2004
HMS Names Barbara McNeil Acting Dean
… Barbara J. McNeil, Watts professor of health care policy and professor of radiology at Harvard … Medical School (HMS), has been appointed acting dean of the faculty of medicine beginning August 1, Harvard …
Extracurriculars
… Seasonal The Game, #127 • November 20 at Harvard Stadium. … December 9, 3-8 p.m. • December 10-12, 10 p.m. -7 p.m. www.ofa.fas.harvard.edu/ceramics 617-495-8680; 219 Western … Society Christmas Concert • December 10 at 8 p.m. www.boxoffice.harvard.edu ; 617-496-2222 First Church, 11 Garden …
Issue: November-December 2010
Demographic Subplots
… timing: Ages at first marriage range widely around the world. In India the median age at first marriage for … at 31. In the United States, for 25 years in the middle of the twentieth century, the median age of first-time brides never reached 21, dipping from 20.5 in …
Issue: November-December 2004
A Faculty Motion on Divesting Fossil-Fuel Investments
… As reported , the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) at its regularly … is the defining challenge of our age, and Harvard needs to rise to the occasion. The white paper refers to a …
Harvard A to Z
… (Excerpted from Harvard A to Z , by John T. Bethell, Richard M. Hunt, and Robert Shenton, published this … Press. Copyright©2004 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Used by permission. All rights reserved.) When Raktaprachit Aab '13, A.M. '14, of Bangkok, enrolled in the College in 1909, the journey …
Issue: May-June 2004
An Exercise Pill?
… Could a pill provide the benefits of exercise? Sacrilege to some, the thought has … nevertheless motivated researchers seeking to treat some of the most perplexing human diseases, from diabetes to …
Cambridge 02138
… I sympathize with the shocked Athenians and disgusted Germans who visited the exhibit of ancient sculptures that had recently been colored, as … Warning ,” November-December 2007, page 23), but was surprised that he misinterprets what seems to me the clear sense …
Issue: January-February 2008
Publisher Departs
… Irina Kuksin, who joined the magazine as finance and administrative director in late … and marketing teams while keeping careful control of expenses and, of late, coping with pandemic-related kinks … chain for paper, our printer’s operations, and other crises. Throughout, of course, the magazine’s business and …
Issue: May-June 2023
Ski Team, Waxing
… In the north country of New Hampshire, skiers from Dartmouth, the current NCAA champions, reign supreme, while the Green Mountains are home to the University of Vermont ski team, another perennial powerhouse. On the …
Issue: January-February 2008