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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.
The Hydrogen-Powered Future
Drive up a country road winding between horse pastures, cross a small bridge, then climb a gravel lane, and you can reach a house that seems to...
Final Architect
This story has taken a surprising turn. Blame it on the tomatoes.It started out as a profile of a popular professor, his populous course, and...
DNA as Data
When George McDonald Church arrived at Harvard in 1977, nine out of 10 biologists did research without touching a computer. They wrote journal...
Green Buildings
Since 1991, Rocky Mountain Institute has worked with clients like the Pentagon, Oberlin College, the White House, and the 2000 Sydney Olympic...
The Deficit Danger
At the time of the last presidential election campaign, four years ago, the government was running a sizable budget surplus. That surplus...
Janos Plesch
In1937, John Maynard Keynes had a serious heart attack. His British doctors more or less gave up on him and prescribed indefinite bed rest. But...
Ralph Johnson Bunche
In the fall of 1927, the small group of black students at Harvard learned of the impending arrival of an exceptionally gifted new black graduate...
The Copernicus Quest
Owen Gingerich, Ph.D. '62, takes a seat on his "rocket cart"—a dolly with a steering stick in front, a straight-backed chair...
Bioterrorism and the University
There can be few higher privileges for the scientific community than to contribute to the security, freedom, and well-being of our nation and of...
Making Directors Accountable
The many corporate scandals of the past two years have highlighted the importance of effective corporate governance. Cases that are by now...