Features
To Promote Healthy Habits in Patients, Start with the Doctors
Why Harvard Medical School is training physicians to think more like coaches
Harvard scholars and students fight HIV in sub-Saharan Africa
Harvard professors and students take aim at the social and behavioral factors that contribute to HIV.
Mindfulness—the unconventional research of psychologist Ellen Langer
Psychologist Ellen Langer's unconventional research. Plus, read about applying mindfulness techniques to eating.
In photographs by Wang Di and Xing Danwen, Beijing as "urban utopia"
Two Beijing photographers interpret China's breakneck change from Communist revolution to market-based consumerism.
Brief life of American textile industry entrepreneur Francis Cabot Lowell
Brief life of an American entrepreneur: 1775-1817
by Dan Yaeger
Excerpt from "Because It Is Wrong," by Charles and Gregory Fried
Father and son, lawyer and philosopher debate torture, surveillance, and presidential power
Harvard dropouts from the class of 1969
Forty-some years ago, three Sixties types dropped out. We drop in on them.
Brief biography of Native American basket-maker Clara Darden
Brief life of an overlooked artist: c. 1829-1910. With images of Darden's masterpieces of river-cane basketry.
by Ivan Gaskell
The United States bubble economy and lessons from Japan
Prospects for American economic recovery—and cautionary lessons from Japan
Arthur Kleinman on the societal and medical ramifications of caregiving
A scholar experiences the moral acts that come before—and go beyond—modern medicine.
Profile of literary agent Andrew Wylie
Andrew Wylie '70 runs a powerful literary agency that mixes hardball business and highbrow tastes. With audio from an interview with Wylie.