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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

by Jonathan Shaw

Efficient Taxation of Income

In June 2001, President George W. Bush signed the Economic Growth and Tax Relief and Reconciliation Act into law, initiating a 10-year program...

Eleanor Rathbone

Seventy years ago, on April 13, 1933, a debate took place in the House of Commons over how the British government should respond to the new Nazi...

Of Ants and Earth

Formal retirement hasn't slowed E. O. Wilson down at all. Since assuming emeritus status as Pellegrino University Research Professor in 1997...

by John S. Rosenberg

Unveiled

Grenville Lindall Winthrop, A.B. 1886, LL.B. '89, had a passion for beauty. He had financial resources, leisure, and eclectic tastes, and...

by Christopher Reed

What Causes Cancer

J. Michael Bishop, M.D. '62, is a self-described inveterate baseball fan and inadvertent microbiologist. His sports aspirations have been...

Paul Cabot

Crack! Paul Cabot pulled his ROTC rifle back from his dorm's open window and surveyed the damage. Students had been holding a dance in the Yard...

Hertzberg of the New Yorker

On a January evening in 1977, at the old New Yorker offices on West 43rd Street, a going-away party was in progress for Hendrik Hertzberg '65, a...

by Craig Lambert

Economic Woman

Women's work? A traveling exhibition offers engaging examples:Elizabeth Murray (1726-1785), a colonial "she-merchant" who ran a...

Simple Hosts

There is no florist in the lobby of Shriners Hospital for Children in Boston. In fact, anyone who attempts to deliver a get-well begonia or a...

Phenome Fellow

In a Marist monastery in southern Bavaria, 11-year-old Hans Hofmann began his classical education. "I studied Greek, Latin, and...

by Jonathan Shaw