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Solving Dehydration
… In the 1960s , East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) faced a grave … in 1967. A self-described pacifist living in an age of mandatory physician conscription, he joined the National Institutes of Health rather than serve in Vietnam. The NIH sent …
Issue: January-February 2024
High Italian
… Italian food has been so thoroughly assimilated into the American diet that it no longer counts as “ethnic” fare. … sumptuous Italian restaurant like Mamma Maria to remind us of the varied regional cuisines of a culture that takes eating as seriously as it does …
Issue: September-October 2005
The Collapse of Gaza’s Healthcare System
… surgeon—had left his medical practice in London to treat the mounting number of civilians wounded by Israel’s bombardment of the Gaza Strip, commenced in the wake of Hamas’s October …
1,600 First Dates
… Cambridge this summer, I dropped by a favorite place, the University Archives. (The hushed voices and the sign-in … room twice, always make me feel like I’m in on some sort of secret.) The pleasant summer weather reminded me of the first days of freshman year—Move-in, Opening Days (a …
Alvin, Simon... and You
… The movie's production company has created a site that lets … what your own voice would sound like if you were a member of Alvin and the Chipmunks. The lovable rodents' voices … If you don't happen to have a microphone, or an audio clip of your own voice stored on your computer, the site lets you …
Spellbound on Stage
… “Anything that involves music and movement. That’s kind of an odd, specific theater thing. But I find that I get cast a lot to play magical creatures of some kind—and also children.” How to Succeed in …
Issue: March-April 2024
Poise, in Spite of Everything
… “You have to get the eyes right,” says portrait artist Nina Skov Jensen ’25. “You can mess up a lot of other things and it won’t matter, but the eyes have to be right.” That was one of the first lessons Jensen absorbed when she began teaching …
Issue: May-June 2024
Britain-bound
… Eight Harvard seniors will cross the Atlantic to study at Oxford next year as Marshall and … Florida and Sarah Moss, Normal, Illinois. Harvard News Office Fellow Marshall Scholar Lauren Baer, a social-studies … organization in New Delhi. She will study the intersection of law and development in gender issues, first at Oxford, …
Issue: March-April 2002
In China, Slowly Reassembling Lives
… Among those dispatching from China in the wake of this month's devastating earthquake is Geoffrey Fowler ’00, formerly a Ledecky Undergraduate Fellow …
Central Square Star
… restaurant that replaces a Burger King (and nixes the chairs bolted to the floor) earns our affection. To be offered a place as great as the new Rendezvous in Central … Also gratifying is to see reversed this once the onslaught of chain stores that in recent years have choked the …
Issue: September-October 2006
Virus-Sized Transistors
… fictional possibility is now a step closer to reality with the development of a bio-compatible transistor the size of a virus. Hyman professor of chemistry Charles Lieber and …
Issue: January-February 2011
Orchid Bees In Flight
… Amid turbulen t conditions, orchid bees in flight prevent themselves from rolling by extending their rear legs. … An orchid bee's use of its rear legs to maintain stability in turbulent … clear in this slow-motion video. All videos courtesy of Stacey Combes/The Combes Laboratory … Video clips reveal …
Issue: November-December 2009
Rethinking 90 Mount Auburn
… plans to erect a new building on Mount Auburn Street beside the Fox Club (foreground). Harvard has tapped Leers Weinzapfel Associates, Architects, of Boston, to design a building at 90 Mount Auburn Street … the new architects "have a very interesting track record of doing contemporary design but with real sensitivity to …
Issue: July-August 2002
What I Read at War
… Virgil, Eclogue IX, lines 11-13 ...but songs of ours Avail among the War-God's weapons, Lycidas, As much as Chaonian doves, … they say, when the eagle comes. Sarajevo in the summer of 1995 came as close to Dante's inner circle of hell as any …
The Sum of Our Choices
… A market-like notion of personal choice has come to pervade ways of thinking about everything from what flavor of ice cream to order or whom to date to the most fraught issues in political or ideological …
Issue: May-June 2025