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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.
Dorm Decor
"To me [my room] will always be haunted by my companions who have been there, by the books that I have read there, by the pleasure and the...
Reverence for the Object
"...in every prosperous municipality in the land, in the next ten years the call is likely to come for thoroughly equipped...
Globalization for Whom?
Globalization has brought little but good news to those with the products, skills, and resources to market worldwide. But does it also work for...
Trafficking in Chance
The dozens of ATM machines lining the entrances to the Mohegan Sun casino don't operate in quite the usual way. If you withdraw $400 in cash...
Owen Wister
One hundred years ago, the Macmillan Company published The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains, a novel about an unnamed Wyoming cattleman. The...
Medicine by Model
It's a troubling area, the economics of saving lives. Take cervical cancer, for example. In the United States we have spent enormous sums for...
Tough Love
Editor's Note: Nicholas Dawidoff '85 has just published The Fly Swatter: How My Grandfather Made His Way in the World, a richly detailed...
Brainy Women
The human brain rests in cupped hands as easily as a cantaloupe. It is softer and spongier to the touch, of course, and its surface is more...
Masters of Metal
"Glory and prosperity" are the first words of a benediction often inscribed on medieval Islamic metalwork, and any civilization that...
The Future of War and the American Military
The people who run the American military have to be futurists, whether they want to be or not. The process of developing and building new...