July-August 1997
On the cover: Silicon etched by a laser. The oscillating patterns and bubbles of silicon caused by the laser's heat provide information helpful to researchers making microstructures on silicon surfaces. Photographer Felice Frankel made the image in an MIT laboratory. For evidence of her collaboration with Harvard's George M. Whitesides, please see the cover story.
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Power and pollution, Minnie in kimono, the missing midlife crisis, cyberspace addiction, and digging up land mines
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Other paths to scholarly employment--and academic freedom
by Richard Chait
Professor Ruth Wisse revives the riches of Yiddish, and finds in the schlemiel some cautionary lessons about the future of Israel
by Janet Tassel
COVER ARTICLE
A photographer and a chemist take a new look at the nature of things
by Felice Frankel and George M. Whitesides
Brief life of a sensational Egyptian singer: 1904?-1975
by Virginia Danielson
In her Commencement address, the Secretary of State urges Americans to remain engaged with a changing world
by Madeleine K. Albright
The 346th Commencement exercises have an international inflection, Russian ruckus, a tempest over tenure, not so many summas, changes to the Core, studying nonprofits, professional ethics, commemorating Native Americans at Harvard, a long overdue book, the University Campaign ahead of schedule, lonely undergraduates, and baseball to boast about
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