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Historian David Shumway Jones warns that the cost of precision medicine might lead to higher levels of inequality in healthcare.
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Linnea Olson, shown with her dog, Kumo, has survived 13 years with lung cancer.
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Eunice Kennedy Shriver races her brother Ted and others in Washington, D.C., to kick off a 1975 Special Olympics fundraising coast-to-coast marathon.
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Wim Wenders delivers the final installment in the 2018 Norton Lectures on Cinema.
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A theatre troupe aims for higher ed.
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Assaults on privacy and security in America threaten democracy itself.
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David Shumway Jones
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Historian David Shumway Jones warns that the cost of precision medicine might lead to higher levels of inequality in healthcare.
Dean Stanley Shaw and Dr. Deborah Schrag
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Physicians bring data science to bear on patient health and wellness information.
Sellers at the John Brown Fort, at Harpers Ferry National Historical Park
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William Sellers aims to expose a new generation to America’s origins.
Linnea Olson, shown with her dog, Kumo, has survived 13 years with lung cancer.
Photograph by Jim Harrison
Using precision medicine, Harvard researchers target cancer.
Mara Sidmore, artistic director of Applied Theatre Practice at the Bok Center
Photograph by Jim Harrison
A theatre troupe aims for higher ed.
A deputy sheriff confronts civil-rights marchers in front of the county courthouse in Greenwood, Mississippi, in 1966. Greenwood, nicknamed “the Cotton Capital of the World,” depended heavily on slave labor in the nineteenth century and became a flashpoint for racial strife throughout the twentieth.
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A new book traces today’s politics back to chattel slavery.