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Small Talk, From Afar
… three-minute timer started in his head. Once Koerner opened the door to the “radio shack,” its walls paneled with wood … is trying to revive the Harvard Wireless Club, a group of amateur (“ham”) radio enthusiasts. Unlike the student DJs … students of yore—plopped down before an array of antiquated machines, bathed in the subtle aroma of cigarettes smoked …
Issue: May-June 2025
Raising the Estimate of Sea-Level Rise
… Picture a plastic bowl. Put a large piece of ice in it—one tall enough that it rises high above the bowl’s rim. Now melt the ice. The bowl will catch most …
Issue: September-October 2021
Housing in the Climate Crosshairs
… America’s critical housing affordability crisis . The U.S. home price index jumped 46 percent from the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic to last year. Add to that a budding … with unprecedented housing availability and affordability crises like Los Angeles.” Spending on disaster repairs has …
Predicting the Future of China's Rise
… Lawrence H. Summers lived up to his billing as a voice of opposition Wednesday evening at a Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) discussion on China’s rise as an economic power and its rivalry with the United States. Timed to the Beijing Olympics, the event …
The Rise of Faculty Centrism
… Politically, U.S. professors are less liberal than many people believe, but their ranks also include fewer conservatives than in the … Only 20 percent voted for George Bush in 2004. The rise in centrism, the study authors say, seems to have come …
Issue: January-February 2008
Stop—and Ponder—the Presses
… Tours of the Museum of Printing , in Haverhill, Massachusetts, begin, naturally, … Romano says—including one of only 50 working linotype machines in the country. That revolutionary invention, …
Issue: January-February 2025
Doctors for Change
… Among the items on display in the exhibit titled Prescriptions for Peace is the book Surviving Nuclear War. It offers instructions for creating a DIY face covering to … in 1985, with the Cold War in its final years and amid the rise to power of Mikhail Gorbachev, the IPPNW won the Nobel …
Trade Cards in the Age of Invention
… In the United States, the late nineteenth century was an age of … … 223 … A nineteenth-century advertising medium traces the rise of consumer culture. … A nineteenth-century advertising …
Issue: July-August 2021
At Risk
… Note to Readers: In light of the federal government’s announced intention to reduce … Harvard and Tishman Speyer, developer of the private enterprise research campus (ERC) in Allston, on leased University …
Issue: March-April 2025
Richard P. Lifton Elected to Harvard Corporation
… RICHARD P. Lifton , president of The Rockefeller University since 2016, will become a member … of mutations in 20 genes that cause blood pressure to rise or fall to extremes by altering renal salt …
Harvard Sues Over Funding Freeze
… On Monday, Harvard filed suit against the federal government, sending the battle between the … the established procedures for curtailing campus violations of civil rights, such as antisemitism. The demands imposed … later reported that the Trump administration was surprised that Harvard publicly released the letter. In …
“The World Right Now Cannot Afford Indifference”
… The life of Lawrence S. Bacow, Harvard’s twenty-ninth … (at one point being denied entry into France) informed some of his decisions as the University’s leader. As he told the … they spoke passionately about the dangers ahead. The rise of antisemitism worldwide was on everyone’s mind. As …
Reinforcing Harvard’s Finances
… Just after placing $434 million of tax-exempt bonds to pay for capital projects , Harvard is returning to the market to borrow $750 million of taxable debt, fueling speculation about its uses for the …
University Housing on the Rise
… More than 300 units of new housing (500 beds), primarily for graduate students … some for faculty and staff, are being built on two sites in the Riverside area of Cambridge, near Mather House and … large, two-section building by Kyu Sung Woo Architects will rise on Memorial Drive. Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates …
Issue: September-October 2005
The Modern World Reconceived
… Who are the protagonists of The Project-State and Its Rivals: A New … rich through entrepreneurship and the funding of enterprise, of the officials of states and government who see …
Issue: May-June 2023