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The Inspired Choreography of Irineo Cabreros
… At the Harvard Dance Center in April, at an evening showcasing the work of emerging choreographers, Irineo Cabreros’s “Quartet for the End of Time” stood out. There was the unusual score, combining …
Reforming Social Security
… The current discussion of ways to reform the U.S. Social … that we will want to devote to healthcare will likely rise substantially and, because much of healthcare in the … reach retirement with sufficient savings. As wage levels rise over time, Social Security benefits therefore need to …
Issue: March-April 2005
Valerie Montgomery Rice’s Medical and Dental Schools Class Day Address
… Thank you for that kind introduction. And thank you to the Harvard medical and dental class of 2021 for inviting me to be your Class Day speaker this … this time in history. A time that has seen the devastation of a global pandemic on the lives of millions of people. …
Building a New Information Civilization
… in ways unimaginable just a few years ago—through the large-scale collection of data from wireless devices they keep close. “These are … the stark difference in national responses to the rise of an information civilization—a world in which …
Colin Powell Discussed the Role of the Military
… afternoon in 1993, he was finishing his tenure as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under President Bill Clinton. His prospective …
Making the Wires Touch
… "When you read literary works or see them on the stage, as in the case of Shakespeare," says Stephen Greenblatt, "you are … them. "That signals that something is wrong with this enterprise. It runs the risk of becoming bloodless." Greenblatt's …
Issue: September-October 2004
A Matter of Place
… build a library and information center in what used to be the town of Purysburg, South Carolina, settled by 600 poor Swiss … is not just another job for an architect who divides his professional attention between his own practice and the …
Issue: September-October 2001
How Planet Earth’s Trees Use Carbon
… What is the carbon cycle, anyway? Most people are familiar with the … heat, trees and other carbon-sequestering organisms help to offset and cool rising temperatures by reducing atmospheric … Managing Fires for Carbon Conservation As temperatures rise, wildfires in forests—especially in North America, as …
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences Envisions Its Future
… E nlisting its members’ intellects and capabilities, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) is pursuing an unprecedented … possible to fund exciting work in new fields. A further surprise is that the FSG report, sweeping in scope, has been …
Cambridge 02138
… Dementia Caregiving About Lydialyle Gibson’s “ Caring for the Caregivers ” (January-February, page 14): What a wonderful piece! I am one of those who did 10 years of caregiving with a lovely lady … in the article of what MGH plans to do differently to rise to the escalating crisis of caregiving. Understanding, …
Issue: March-April 2025
Historian of Ices
… game: pick a famous person and guess which combination of gelato and toppings would have been his or her favorite. Sigmund Freud, they agreed, would have chosen “a cup of black coffee with a … puts in an appearance as the inventor of Omelette Surprise: ice cream enclosed in meringue. In another chapter, …
Issue: July-August 2006
Putting the Music in Musical Theater
… Last spring, during the height of the pandemic’s catastrophic first wave in New … tights glides across her living room in a New York high-rise, as the singer’s voice lilts over long, slow, mournful …
Issue: July-August 2021
A Garden of Prose
… The 2,000-square-foot vegetable plot—planted with fava … The Book, the Life, the Afterlife (2009; appearing in softcover this fall). Prose writes everything except, well, poetry. “Francine is one of the great writers of her generation,” says James Atlas …
Issue: September-October 2010
A Classroom in the Now
… In the early 1990s, scientist, writer, and world-renowned … encountered Cherry Hamrick, a teacher in the small town of South Jordan, Utah, who wanted to bring mindfulness—the act of paying attention on purpose in the present moment—into …
Bearer of Bad News
… This week's New York Times Magazine has a profile of New York University economist Nouriel Roubini, whose … been startlingly spot-on. Roubini, Ph.D. ’88, predicted the U.S. economy's current conditions with chilling …