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The Year a Beat Poet Squatted at Harvard
In 1954, Gregory Corso moved into Eliot House. How he stayed there is a literary legend.
Restaurant eating is rising: the pros and the cons
Dining out is surging—yet there are reservations.
Metabolomics, the study of metabolites, provides telling clues to future health
The study of metabolites does an end run around genomics to provide telling clues to your future health.
Excerpt: Joe Roman's "Listed: Dispatches from America's Endangered Species Act"
On learning from nature and the Endangered Species Act
by Joe Roman
Brief life of comics impresario Leverett Gleason
Brief life of a comics impresario: 1898-1971
by Brett Dakin
Profile of Andrew Sullivan, blogger supreme
Andrew Sullivan’s views are predictable in only one way: always stimulating.
Profile of actor and playwright Wallace Shawn
Ubiquitous on film and TV, Wallace Shawn writes plays that pack the house—with 20.
Brief life of female Vietnamese revolutionary Bao Luong
Brief life of a Vietnamese revolutionary: 1909-1976
Louis Kunkel’s 30-year quest to diagnose and cure muscular dystrophy
Louis Kunkel’s 30-year quest to diagnose and cure muscular dystrophy
Yale expert Fred Shapiro's pick of choice Harvard quotations
An expert's pick of choice Harvard words
by Fred Shapiro
Matthew Nock studies suicide and self-injury
Understanding suicide and self-injury