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Why the Finns Do Not Drink but Die and the French Drink but Do Not Die
… public health prevention program requires knowledge of factors that may increase the likelihood of maintaining health or developing a disease. Several …
Issue: September-October 2011
Skyscraper as Symbol
… A skyscraper , unlike a sculpture or painting, cannot be the work of a single artist. It arises from numerous contingencies and collaborations among …
Issue: May-June 2010
Wizard of Treys
… '01, and he should know. In November, Clemente became the twentieth player in Harvard history to score more than … on the all-time scoring list, plus break the Crimson record of 167 three-pointers held by Mike Gilmore '96. "Dan has … the gym--repetition," he says. He has done things that surprised even him. Last year, after the third game, he noticed …
Strategic Planning
… Bashkansky ’25 could spend hours at a chessboard pondering the perfect move. But as a child playing in competitive … time limits, such painstaking deliberation wasn’t possible—often to her frustration. During one match when she was 12, … position, agonizing over the potential consequences of her decision 15 or 20 moves down the line. “In this case, …
Issue: March-April 2024
Up in the Air
… change is to show before-and-after pictures: now you see the icebergs, now you don’t. “It seemed like there was more … than that,” says Alex MacLean ’69, M.Arch. ’73. Photographs of vanishing glaciers show the effect but not the cause, he … on the atmosphere from the atmosphere, taking pictures of the ground from high above as he crisscrosses the country …
Issue: January-February 2009
The Quiet Campaign
… The contested election for Harvard’s Board of Overseers … own tuition charges. He suggested state-school tuition has risen astronomically because colleges have had to add …
“A Tiger Jumping Out of the Woods”
… The Massachusetts General Hospital wilderness-medicine … HAPE (high-altitude pulmonary edema, an accumulation of fluid in the lungs, the most common cause of death from high-altitude illness), and HACE …
Issue: November-December 2017
Brazil's "Minister of Ideas"
… In the Times story, Unger compares his Harvard experience to … garden. It is not dangerous enough... The New York Times profiles Pound professor of law Roberto Mangabeira Unger, who is taking a …
America the Politically Unequal
… Recent events have focused attention on two of the most consequential phenomena of our time: growing … important finding by the authors is that when voter turnout rises, it is mostly because of increased turnout among …
Issue: September-October 2012
Harvard Commencement Day 2025
… Harvard Yard could not have been lovelier than in the spring of 2025, as cool weather extended a lush period of bloom, and the rhododendrons’ display coincided with a …
Dean of Student Life Departs
… Dean of student life Suzy M. Nelson will leave at the end of the academic year to accept a post as vice president and …
Yesterday's News
… 1937 A 1.2-million-volt x-ray machine has been installed in the Collis P. Huntington Memorial Hospital, a department of the University, to provide cancer treatments. The machine … be run at half its full capacity. 1942 Queen Wilhemina of the Netherlands, in exile during the Nazi occupation of …
Issue: July-August 2002
Introducing the i-Lab
… The Harvard Innovation Lab —“Hi” in its cheery logo—was … to users throughout the University, and opening part of it to the surrounding community. The lab occupies the … Entrepreneurship appeals to many M.B.A. students. The rise of engineering. Further impetus comes from the rapid …
Issue: January-February 2012
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 …
Sherry Turkle, Mark Doty, to Speak at Phi Beta Kappa Exercises
… (PBK) Literary Exercises, which will take place in Sanders Theatre on May 23. This is traditionally the opening event of Commencement week, and during it, the society confers … , “I began to hear students talking about their minds as machines, based on the early personal computers they had. …