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Why America’s Strategy For Reducing Racial Inequality Failed
Harvard professor Christina Cross debunks the myth of the two-parent Black family.
by Saima Sidik
Self-Esteem, Real and Phony
When Tom Brady joined the New England Patriots as a sixth-round draft pick in 2000, he told the team’s owner, Bob Kraft, “I’m...
Tsunami-Safe(r) Housing
Last December’s devastating tsunami leveled building walls that faced the sea in Sri Lankabut walls perpendicular to the shoreline...
Too Much Sunscreen?
For many summers, people have slathered and sprayed on sunscreens and fretted about SPF factors while scrambling to protect themselves from...
Sonatas from Syndromes
In a biography of composer Robert Schumann (1810-1856), Richard Kogan ’77, M.D. ’81, found startling episodes like this: “In a...
The Patent Trap
Patentsa form of governmental protection to prevent ideas from being sold or used by someone else without permissionhave a long and...
A Taste for Extinction
The island nation of Madagascar boasts not only one of the highest levels of species diversity on earth, but also unparalleled rates of...
Society's Casino
In the fall of 2001, Americans drastically revised their travel habits. “Driving went up, and flying went down,” says David Ropeik...
A Painting with "Legs"
Like the poems Emily Dickinson stored in her attic, or John Steinbeck’s repeatedly rejected early manuscripts, one of America’s...
Driving Birds Away
If you were a bobolink thinking about breeding, you would avoid laying your eggs within three-quarters of a mile of either side of a busy...
Leaves That Lunch
The most famous carnivore of the plant kingdom, the Venus flytrap, lures insects to its leafy green lips with a sweet-smelling scent, then snaps...