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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
Crimson Cranescape
… This panorama , photographed from the Western Avenue Bridge over the Charles River, gives some sense of Harvard’s current, very extensive construction program. … facility, the Northwest Building, and the reconstruction of the Hasty Pudding Theatricals performing-arts space. The …
Issue: March-April 2006
Climate Change Heats Up
… The University will sponsor a panel discussion on climate … in an e-mail to the community yesterday. Given the roster of participants, the event appears to have been assembled over a considerable period of time—but it is scheduled to take place during Harvard …
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 – …
Architectural Upheaval
… M.Arch. ’74, writer and architecture critic, conceived the neologism “Deconstructivism” to describe the changes, … technological, that brought chaos into the very formal work of designing habitable buildings. He has spent more than three decades, on and off, distilling the roots, meanings, and applications of …
Issue: May-June 2022
Commencement Address by John Lithgow ’67: “An Actor's Own Words”
… families, and friends, good afternoon and thank you for the honor of addressing you all today. This speech is a major event in … (Funny, I expected to get a few boos on that.) To my surprise, I emerged as a kind of Pied Piper of arts education …
Crimson Wrestlers Rising
… The ascent of Harvard's wrestling program, as some colleges scrap theirs to reach gender equity in their sports offerings, owes much to the grappling skills of wrestling …
Cambridge 02138
… with great interest. I have equally great admiration for the clear writing. The multifaceted faculty approaches to … the many well-known, as well as to the recent, involvements of inflammation in humanity’s defenses and illnesses were … groups include endogenous metabolic inflammation, which comprises the main gestalt of Shaw’s article, and the last group …
Issue: July-August 2019
Harvard@Home
… The University’s on-line learning programs (accessible via athome.harvard.edu ) provide a wide range of material on courses, events, speakers, and other happenings around campus. Some of the new offerings include: “Women and War in the …
Issue: May-June 2007
Rethinking Public Education Leadership
… incorporate an interview with Wendy Kopp, founder and CEO of Teach For America, one of the partner organizations for the new education doctorate. …
An American Zen Master at Harvard
… and his Dharma heir was Richard Dudley Baker '58. Once at the hot core of the counterculture, the Zen Center acquired prestige, … Then an apocalyptic sex scandal in 1983 saw Baker accused of abusing his power and spiritual authority. In a …
Issue: November-December 2001
Allston Deliberations
… Having hired a team of consultants and engineers one year ago to assess the University's existing real estate assets in Allston, as well as the infrastructure needs of a future campus across the river, Harvard's leaders are …
Issue: September-October 2003
Toxic Memo
… This David Levine caricature accompanied a New Yorker profile, published in the issue of July 6, 1998, when Summers led the U.S. effort to fortify …
Vaccine for Tooth Decay
… For most of the twentieth century, the only way dentists could treat cavities was to "drill and … squirted into the nostrils in the first few years of a child's life? Harvard Medical School faculty members …
Issue: January-February 2002
2013 Commencement & Reunion Guide
… Magazine 's Commencement & Reunion Guide, published in the May-June 2013 issue , offers a fascinating glimpse into the graduating class of 2013. Learn about the tradition of women's hats for …