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January-February '98



Right Now
  Memories on glass, population implosion, climate and coronaries, lunar launch, digital dentistry

Departments
  Editor's Letter
Ghosts, goals, and prizes

Cambridge 02138
Communications from our readers - with links to the original articles (a great introduction to recent pieces)

Essay
Oscar Handlin hears the serpent hiss

Harvard Health
Preparing for life-or-death decisions

New England Regional Edition
Retirement financial planning, plus do-it-yourself stir-fry

The Browser
Unraveling the cable of science, faculty duty, and satire in 4/4 time

The Alumni
The College and College song transformed; unending e-mail


The College Pump
The short life of The Gad-Fly

Treasure
Who's Pudding-on-Airs?


Features

 
COVER ARTICLE


In and out of the closet at Harvard, 1653-1998
by Andrew Tobias




This magazine turns 100 next November. Let the festivities begin with an invitation to readers, part one of a centennial timeline, and a harvest of epigrams



The Loeb Fellowship's growing impact on the places where we live and work
by Jonathan Shaw

Brief life of a Russian émigré writer in Paris: 1903-1971
by László Dienes



Poetry
by Paul Muldoon



The worrisome distribution of the fruits of American economic growth
by Richard B. Freeman



The historic visit of Jiang Zemin, parent Al Gore, new funds for international studies, alcohol policy, the president on the Campaign, state papers returned to Georgia, Harvard eggs will make you smarter, tenure trends among faculty women, undergraduate publications, the football team's historic season, and a century on ice








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