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The Feelings Are Mutually Exclusive
… Feelings color all our experiences, and for some people the filter of emotions can go from rose to purple to black as quickly and subtly as the setting of the sun. Once referred to as manic-depressive illness, …
The Fighting Pencil
… still a tongue-twister, but on closer inspection, it’s less of an oxymoron than you might think. After Stalin’s death in 1953, the USSR took stock of itself. Soviet bureaucracy and its many abuses had …
Issue: March-April 2022
In Search of Spontaneity
… Almost every day for the past six months at approximately 1 p.m. , I’ve taken our … to swerve away to maintain my social distance. Darting out of a stranger’s way might scare away the cardinal I was … blocks, boxes, binds of thought into the hues, shadings, rises, flowing bends and blends of sight. …
War of Words
… president was bound to establish new priorities, altering the expectations built up during the prior decade and … new millennium afforded opportunities to take stock of what use was being made of the wealth that had been accumulated in the prior decade. …
Issue: March-April 2002
“Ambitious of Doing the World Some Good”
… One of the more interesting observations in Mapping the Future , an … inside journalism spend a lot of time worrying about crises inside journalism, just as lawyers spend time worrying about crises inside their profession. These anxieties, spilling …
Catcher on the Fly
… The game's turning point— and perhaps the play that … score tied 14-14, Crimson quarterback Neil Rose '02 ('03) lofted a pass 30 yards in the air to wide receiver Carl … back Stephen Faulk charged across at him. "I caught him out of the corner of my eye," Morris says. "I thought, just …
Issue: September-October 2002
Meeting the Multiverse
… It began with Isaac Newton. With the publication of his Principia in 1687, Newton became the … and parallel universes? Hypotheses in high-energy physics rise and fall on the Internet these days, sometimes in a …
Issue: November-December 2005
Harvard’s Nobel Prize Incubator
… A striking phenomenon in the biomedical sciences is that great scientists sometimes arise in clusters at a particular time and place that fosters … examples are the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England and the National …
Dante the Disruptor
… Defenders have attitude, and their mind-set differs sharply from that of players who line up on the other side of the ball. Call it the outlook of a stopper. "You have to …
Issue: September-October 2003
Chapter & Verse
… source for a story about two patients so frustrated by their psychiatrist’s silence in response to whatever they said that they conspired to get a rise out of him. They made up an elaborate dream full of bizarre …
Issue: July-August 2014
Steampunk’s Sole
… kooky scientist’s air-propelled time machine housed within the skeletal frame of a covered wagon. This prime example of Steampunk’s aesthetic playfully melds imaginary and …
Issue: November-December 2016
The Skinny on Weight
… Calvin Trillin has attributed an astute observation to his father, who said something like, "You can't gain more weight than that of the food you eat." That makes perfect sense to me, but … both a conundrum and a national obsession. A recent survey of 107,804 adults conducted by the Centers for Disease …
Horseplayer Extraordinaire
… even though its price—$5 to $6 a copy—makes it one of the most expensive papers in the world. In a way, that high … walk in, order a drink, and start gambling.” But if slot machines and lotteries have siphoned off income from …
Issue: March-April 2010
The Windmill Movie
… The late filmmaker Richard Rogers '67, Ed.M. '70, who died … His documentary films range from Quarry (1970), a slice-of-life look at youths diving, swimming, and lounging around …
Issue: May-June 2009
Off the Shelf
… Melvin Konner, Ph.D. ’73, M.D. ’84 (W.W. Norton, $27.95). The biological anthropologist/neuroscientist at Emory University examines the origins of faith from his upbringing (as an Orthodox Jew, who became … the human-planned catastrophes in the making, as seas rise, coastal development accelerates, and tax breaks and …
Issue: September-October 2019