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Getting to Mars (for Real)
Humans have been dreaming of living on the Red Planet for decades. Harvard researchers are on the case.
Brief biographical sketch of poet Elizabeth Bishop
By the time Elizabeth Bishop settled into her apartment on the Boston waterfront, in recently refurbished Lewis Wharf, it was 1974. She was 63...
India's Promise
Things have never been as good for India as they appear to be today. Its economy has grown by nearly 6 percent annually for the past...
Mad for Degas
In 1911 the little Fogg Art Museum mounted the only one-man museum exhibition to occur during his lifetime of works by Hilaire-Germain-Edgar...
Deep into Sleep
Not long ago, a psychiatrist in private practice telephoned associate professor of psychiatry Robert Stickgold, a cognitive neuroscientist...
Public Health Research on Airborne Pollution
How epidemiology, engineering, and experiment finger fine particles as airborne killers
Anne Bradstreet
Anne Bradstreet’s poem “To My Dear and Loving Husband,” a favorite at weddings, is one of the most anthologized examples of...
Literary Warrior
The study where Mark Helprin writes his novels and short stories, essays, speeches, letters, and Wall Street Journal columns is a spectacular...
Art of the Hunt
A Persian prince of antiquity possessed hunting equipment of often inescapable effectiveness—a trained cheetah. See the manuscript painting...
A Thumb on the Scale
In February 2004, when Harvard allotted an additional $2 million per year in scholarship funds for undergraduates from families with incomes of...
Reforming Social Security
The current discussion of ways to reform the U.S. Social Security retirement system is becoming increasingly polarized over the issue of...