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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
Designs for the Dance
When impresario Serge Diaghilev launched his Ballets Russes in Paris in 1909, he injected into the tired corpus of European ballet a massive...
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...
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...
The True Magic Pill: Why Exercise Outperforms Every Drug for Health and Longevity
From survival of the fittest to staying fit just to survive, scientists probe the benefits of exercise.