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Scary Superbugs
… This week's New Yorker has a sobering piece by Recanati professor of medicine Jerome Groopman on drug-resistant "superbugs." The article documents how, and why, we are losing the war …
Modern Milk
… The milk we drink today may not be nature’s perfect food,” … scientific community has become interested in the effects of the bioactive substances found in pesticides, says … estrogens. In fact, she is concerned that the high levels of hormones found in commercially produced milk may be …
Issue: May-June 2007
Not Groucho (but Way Funny)
… long time, Patricia Marx ’75 assumed she “would wake up in the suburbs with three kids and a mother hairdo.” It hasn’t … remains single and childless, lives on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, and writes humorous books, scripts, and … including columns on shopping for the New Yorker. Some of her best friends are people she met at the Harvard …
Issue: March-April 2008
Football: Holy Cross 30, Harvard 22
… “Put your enemy in the wrong, and keep him so,” urged Samuel Adams, A.B. 1740, … Aided by critical Harvard breakdowns, the Crusaders reeled off 27 consecutive points and hung on for a 30-22 victory. … the first on a quarterback option from four yards out, and lofted a seven-yard pass to tight end Kyle Jusczcyk ’13 for …
Education, Ever More Online
… HarvardX , the online course initiative, has begun piloting the disaggregation of contents—course videos, recorded lectures, illustrations, and exercises—so professors across the University can search them and …
Issue: July-August 2017
Harvard Serves
… During April , the extended University community—in Greater Boston and … to apply “our knowledge to help advance the well-being of people in the world beyond our walls,” the HAA hopes to … organizers will choose one or more dates during the month of April for their service opportunity. Anyone with …
Issue: January-February 2010
Chapter & Verse
… Anne Daniels wonders if someone can identify the following statement, which was “evidently well-known in … the early twentieth century that turns on the juxtaposition of train schedules as presented in Bradshaw, the compendium of British Rail.” Marjorie Cohn would like to learn the …
Issue: July-August 2006
Corporation Appoints Jessica Tuchman Mathews, Theodore V. Wells Jr.
… The University announced today that Jessica Tuchman Mathews … V. Wells Jr., J.D.-M.B.A. ’76, have been elected members of the Harvard Corporation, the senior governing board , … they were elected by the Corporation, with the consent of the Board of Overseers ; the two governing bodies …
How Will Regulation Evolve Around AI and Data Protection?
… Bruce Schneier is a Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and a Fellow at the Berkman Klein … the Economist. He is the New York Times bestselling author of 14 books, including A Hacker's Mind , and hundreds of influential papers and essays. We sat down with him to …
A Branch Office Town, But...
… In his gift to Red Sox fans, Feeding the Monster: How Money, Smarts, and Nerve Took a Team to the Top (Simon & Schuster, $26), Seth Mnookin ’94 offers this take on why the announcement in 2000 that the … was up for sale so energized the Boston citizenry, some of whom worried that a new owner might move the team out of …
Issue: September-October 2006
Air Pollution’s Systemic Effects
… Breathing fine particles suspended in the air is harmful for everyone—and can kill those with … vulnerabilities, a fact known since the 1990s . Now a study of 95 million Medicare hospitalization claims from 2000 to … be harmful to health, and quantifies the economic impact of the resulting hospitalizations and lives lost. Fine …
Issue: March-April 2020
Cultivating Friendships with Trees
… exempt from public haunt,/Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,/Sermons in stones, and good in everything,” wrote Shakespeare. Trees of knowledge and trees of life have deep taproots in human culture. And if trees …
Issue: September-October 2024
Ivies Limit Full-Contact Football Practices
… The Ivy League has decided to limit the number of … that teams can have in an effort to reduce the chance of head injuries to players, according to a New York Times …
Leila Ahmed Wins Grawemeyer Award in Religion
… Leila Ahmed, Thomas professor of divinity, who studies gender and religion and contemporary Islam, has been awarded the 2013 Grawemeyer Award in Religion for her recent book, A …
Dudley House Celebrates 20 Years in Style
… Dudley House is the undisputed social hub for 4,000 students in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, a place where students from any … bash celebrating the House’s twentieth anniversary was tons of fun. Students crammed into a photo booth for party shots …