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To Promote Healthy Habits in Patients, Start with the Doctors

Why Harvard Medical School is training physicians to think more like coaches

by Jonathan Shaw

David Esterly, master woodcarver, works in limewood, like Grinling Gibbons

No one has carved wood like David Esterly since... well, about 1700.

by Craig Lambert

Harvard scholar Peter A. Hall links political economy and the euro crisis

The political economy of a continent at cross-purposes

by Peter A. Hall

John U. Monro, activist educator, by Toni-Lee Capossela

Brief life of an uncommon educator: 1912-2002

by Toni-Lee Capossela

Harvard's William Julius Wilson and others on long-term unemployed

Paths toward employment for low-income blacks and Latinos

by James M. Quane , William Julius ... , Jackelyn Hwang

Harvard Law School professor Randall Kennedy studies race

Randall Kennedy probes the “variousness” of charged racial issues.

by Craig Lambert

The Big Science of Building a Giant Telescope

Harvard professors are among those building the Giant Magellan Telescope, with hope for new discoveries. 

by John S. Rosenberg

Harvard's Bruce Western advocates new prison, rehabilitation policies

Sociologist Bruce Western rethinks incarceration in America

by Elizabeth Gudrais

Harvard Law's Michael Klarman on gay-marriage litigation and politics

On activism, litigation, and social change in America

by Michael J. Klarman

Alexander Hamilton Rice, Amazon explorer, by Mark Plotkin

Brief life of an Amazon explorer: 1875-1956

by Mark J. Plotkin

The passion for procedures to fix ailing arteries and hearts may be misguided

How gaps in medical knowledge affect matters of the heart

by Alice Park