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Canine Mouthpiece
… you were recuperating in a hospital, who would you want in the bed next to you, excluding relatives? A [Cricket]: … Or other people. Any people. A [Watson]: I’d want Susan [Hoffman]. I like to lie on the bed with her, but I don’t … Yellow Lab,” I howl. I’m a helluva blues singer. [Jonathan Hoffman ’69 has recently released his third CD, For Dog …
Issue: May-June 2005
Science and Sleep on Line
… The University’s Office of News and Public Affairs has debuted HarvardScience ( … where students seem barely able to get to bed before sunrise) seem especially apt. … The University’s Office of News …
Issue: January-February 2008
Day-After Thoughts: "Words Have Made a Comeback"
… Now that the 2008 presidential campaign has ended, it's time to begin … lessons; Humanities Center scholar-in-residence Kiku Adatto offered a first take on Wednesday in a luncheon talk hosted by the Committee on the Concerns of Women at Harvard. Adatto, a lecturer on social studies at …
Fusion Fantasy
… There’s a kind of novel that comes with a full-color map and list of dramatis personae . Like the overture to an opera, this tells the audience what …
Issue: November-December 2016
"Prevention Creep"
… In shopping malls around the country, medical businesses sell ultrasound and CT … to seek "preventive" treatment. Body scanning is only one of many interventions aimed at detecting ailments early, or … preventing them entirely. Childhood vaccines render a slew of diseases harmless before they can strike. …
Issue: September-October 2003
Urban Forays
… Compared to that vast metropolitan zone to the southwest where concrete environs pack in the summer … and fountains—allows those out and about to find a spot of shade and a breeze, often carrying a salty edge. What follows is a selection of …
Issue: July-August 2015
Educating Students for Life
… in a Sever Hall classroom, students are discussing the Nuremberg Trials. The point of the trials—to punish those responsible for Nazi … exist—or whether, on the contrary, these principles arise from cultural context. In such moments, the new …
Issue: January-February 2009
Cryptic Puzzle: “Soccer Club”
… SOLVE THE MOST recent creation of puzzlemaker John de Cuevas ’52. … Debbie Levine – Acton, MA Dave Libby – Concord, MA Allan Mayoff – San Felipe, Baja Norte, Mexico Brian McCrady – …
Extracurriculars
… Defy the winter doldrums: attend a gospel concert, take kids to see Oliver Twist, or dip into the diverse array of exhibits on offer. This season, museums and libraries in and around …
Issue: January-February 2007
David Davidson
… “Now, I wouldn’t characterize myself as a vegetarian . Tofu—I could take it or leave it. But last week I had a tofu burger, and I was like, ‘Wow!’” he enthuses. “We’re slowly going to change people’s minds about what they should be eating. We’re meeting with the Lentil Board …
Issue: May-June 2018
Active Grandparenting, Costly Repair
… note: Love it or hate it, exercise is a vital component of health. Harvard Magazine has explored exercise from its epidemiological impacts and its basic biology at the level of mitochondria , to its potent anti-inflammatory … of nasty processes. One worrying source of wear and tear arises from the chemical reactions that keep us alive. The …
Issue: September-October 2020
Cambridge 02138
… Scarcity and Poverty “The Science of Scarcity” (May-June) presents important … in a long time. James E. Hart Ann Arbor, Mich. Sunrise After Joel Studebaker’s letter ( Momentous Image, …
Issue: July-August 2015
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 …
Art Museum Two-Step
… The museum of modern and contemporary art that Harvard plans to build in Allston will have to wait. In September, the Harvard Corporation decided that the project, once fast-tracked for rapid construction ahead of Harvard’s 50-year Allston master plan, was not so …
Issue: January-February 2008
Sinking Carbon-Sink Hopes?
… The world was supposed to work this way: global warming would cause a burst of growth in tropical forests, and the trees would take up … so on and so on.” Another Harvard scholar who may find surprises in CTFS data is Paul R. Moorcroft, professor of …
Issue: September-October 2007