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In 1986, after receiving amnesty under the Immigration Reform and Control Act, Jorge Montes began looking for a good place to raise his family…

The scene, at least the one framed by the family-room proscenium of the television screen, remains indelible. President George W. Bush emerged…

A “rapidly developing revolution in cancer treatment” has prompted David G. Nathan, M.D., president emeritus of Dana-Farber Cancer…

One of the most revealing questions you can ask about any poet has to do with his sense of responsibility. To whom or what does he hold himself…

Lawrence H. Summers brought to the Harvard presidency prodigious energy and a penchant for framing the University’s future in visionary terms.

By the time he reached his early thirties, James was a promising scientist who had all the makings of an academic star. He had earned a stream…

Our demand for energy, on which we depend for health and prosperity, rises all the time: oil and natural gas to heat our homes; electricity for…

Like all revolutions in thought, this one began with anomalies, strange facts, odd observations that the prevailing wisdom could not explain…

How did Franklin Delano Roosevelt ’04, born in 1882 to a privileged, aristocratic life in New York’s Hudson River Valley, become a…

The Reverend Stephen Fulton falls a lot. Once he toppled into a freezer case at the grocery store. He has difficulty walking, and he can’t…

Is aging necessary? Are the wrinkles and gray hair, weakening muscles, neurodegeneration, reduced cardiovascular function, and increased risk of…

In 1911 the little Fogg Art Museum mounted the only one-man museum exhibition to occur during his lifetime of works by Hilaire-Germain-Edgar…

Every day, most of us get in a car and drive. We adjust the temperature, maybe turn on the radio, and flip on the fan, never considering that…

The current discussion of ways to reform the U.S. Social Security retirement system is becoming increasingly polarized over the issue of…

Five thousand years ago in the Mesopotamian marshes, between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in southern Iraq, the Sumerians began history. They…