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The New Medicine
Seeking to make the most of new scientific opportunities in an era of rising research costs and shifting income sources, Harvard Medical School (HMS) and its affiliates are launching ambitious collaborations to investigate cancer and to expedite testing …
Issue: March-April 2000
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 co-captains Joey Killar (foreground) and Ed Mosley, shown here in a practice bout at …
Issue: March-April 2000
The Poet of Needle Park
The Poet of Needle Park : He is surely the most famous Harvard-educated heroin addict, and one of the most famous addicts anywhere: William Seward Burroughs '36 (1914-97) was a kind of über -junkie, a writer whose heavy drug use was the foreground of his …
Issue: March-April 2000
A Taboo Passion
A Taboo Passion : "Addiction is the name we give to a taboo passion," says Ann Marlowe '79, G '80, author of how to stop time: heroin from A to Z (Basic Books, 1999), a rare literary treatment of heroin that neither defends nor demonizes the drug. Marlowe …
Issue: March-April 2000
Deep Cravings
The bombshell dropped in 1976, when "The Natural History of Chipping" appeared in the American Journal of Psychiatry. In their article, Norman Zinberg, then clinical professor of psychiatry at Harvard, and his research assistant R.C. Jacobson described …
Issue: March-April 2000
Earl Derr Biggers
I am quite sure that I never intended to travel the road of the mystery writer," wrote Earl Derr Biggers '07 for his twenty-fifth class reunion report. "Nor did I deliberately choose to have in the seat at my side, his life forever entangled with mine, a …
Issue: March-April 2000
In the Streets and in the Studio
Ben Shahn liked to tell the story of being introduced to someone as "Shahn the painter" and being asked if he was any relation to "Shahn the photographer." It's as a painter--and a graphic and commercial artist, illustrator, and muralist--that Shahn is …
Issue: March-April 2000
Chapter & Verse
Janice Weiss asks where Benjamin DeMott may have written that literature is “an elegant clockworks that tells no time.” Marcia Barrabee hopes someone can surpass the references she’s examined by providing an origin for “naked as a jaybird.” Robin …
Issue: March-April 2000
Off the Shelf
On the Rez, by Ian Frazier ’73 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $25). “This book is about Indians, particularly the Oglala Sioux who live on the Pine Ridge Reservation in southwestern South Dakota,” Frazier writes. “There are wind-blown figures crossing …
Issue: March-April 2000
Buy America
Buy America John D. Spooner ’59, author of Do You Want to Make Money or Would You Rather Fool Around? (Adams Media Corporation, $19.95), gets a lesson from an old hand. One crisis I was witness to—which reinforces the importance of knowing …
Issue: March-April 2000
Beowulf in the Yard
The morning after Beowulf wrenches off Grendel’s arm—thus purging the Danish royal hall of its unwelcome visitor—King Hrothgar’s men trace the bloody tracks left by the monster in its retreat. On their way back they praise Beowulf’s heroism and speak of …
Issue: March-April 2000
Seeds of Greatness
Of all the seed-bearing plants on earth, the angiosperms, or flowering plants, have been the most successful. There are 250,000 of them, as compared to a mere 750 of everything else: a group that includes conifers, cycads, and the gingko tree—in a …
Issue: March-April 2000
The Boy’s Dilemma
The idea that boys like to play with guns while girls prefer dolls is venerable. But in recent years, boys have started playing with real guns, killing other students and teachers in Kentucky, Mississippi, Arkansas, and Colorado. Not one perpetrator in …
Issue: March-April 2000
Longshots Can Win in the Schoolyard
When he was four, Raymond's family moved from Mexico to the United States. Everyone worked. The four children helped their mother deliver newspapers before she started her house-cleaning job. Raymond's father labored on an assembly line all day, then at a …
Issue: March-April 2000
Wild Minds
In the summer of 1980, while doing primate research at a tourist spot in Florida, Marc D. Hauser had an unusual encounter. A female spider monkey appeared to be looking intensely at him, so he approached her cage. The monkey also approached Hauser and, …
Issue: March-April 2000