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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.
Stem-cell Science
Portraits by Stu Rosner The next time you look in a mirror, reflect on this: the face staring back at you is literally not the same one you...
Caliphate of Terror
This year, a group of international terrorists announced its intention to affect an election with the goal of replacing a government that...
Helen Keller
Totally deaf and blind from the age of 19 months, world famous at seven for having learned to read, write, and communicate through the finger...
Medicare Solutions and Problems
The addition of prescription-drug coverage to Medicare is the first substantial expansion of benefits since the program was enacted nearly 40...
Covering the Uninsured
In any given month last year, 43 million Americans—17 percent of people under age 65—lacked either private health insurance or public...
The Brahmin Rebel
Last year, the publication of his Collected Poems returned Robert Lowell '39 to the center stage of American poetry. From 1946, when he won the...
by Adam Kirsch
Harvard A to Z
(Excerpted from Harvard A to Z, by John T. Bethell, Richard M. Hunt, and Robert Shenton, published this May by Harvard University Press...
Evelyn Baring, Lord Cromer
Thinking himself near death in 1905, Evelyn Baring, the first Lord Cromer, began a series of "Biographical Notes," written partly that...
The Way We Eat Now
Last year, Morgan Spurlock decided to eat all his meals at McDonald's for a month. For 30 straight days, everything he took in—breakfast...
The Imbalance of Power
For more than 50 years, the transatlantic partnership between the United States and Europe has been the linchpin of this country's foreign...