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Winnie, Texas is not considered to be in a floodplain. But coastal hurricanes have flooded the town repeatedly since 2008.
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To protect against rising seas, local lenders are selling off risky mortgages.
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A statue of John C. Calhoun is removed on June 24 in Charleston, South Carolina.
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The rise and fall of Charleston’s John C. Calhoun statue, a monument to white supremacy
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Facing legal challenges, the University does away with its controversial regulations on final clubs, fraternities, and sororities.
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Cambridge’s Sofra Bakery & Café feeds sheltering crowds.
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Beds were set up for Spanish flu patients outside the Harvard-affiliated Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in 1918.
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This 1895 map of New York City was created by socialist activist Walter Vrooman, who hoped that by showing the "concrete socialism" of every street, park, school, public building, and public dock in red (and allowing private enterprises to recede into the white background), he might persuade readers that the rest of the map should be socialist as well.
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Curator Garrett Dash Nelson ’09 on the Boston Public Library’s exhibition of “persuasive cartography”
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(Click on arrow at right to view full image) No true likeness of Callimachus is known to exist, but the Libyan-born poet probably resembled the men whose faces appear on the Hellenistic coffins unearthed in Fayum, Egypt, including this one.
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March-April 2013
Letters
Placebos, memorable McKinlock bell, paramedics
The College Pump
Treasure
In this Issue
On activism, litigation, and social change in America
Letters
Placebos, memorable McKinlock bell, paramedics
Right Now
In the plant's tendrils, L. Mahadevan and colleagues discover a new type of spring.
New study reveals just how many years of life are added by varying levels of exercise.
New England Regional
John Harvard's Journal
At its centennial, Harvard University Press continues publishing books, while vastly expanding its digital products.
Harvard proposes moving the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences to the University’s expanded campus.
The pediatric psychiatrists’ book depicts emergency-room experiences with mentally ill children.
Harvard College imposes penalties severe following investigation of undergraduate academic misconduct
HarvardX, edX, and online teaching and learning proliferate.
From the pages of the <i>Harvard Alumni Bulletin</i> and <i>Harvard Magazine</i>
Three Fellows offer a briefing on the effects of reforming the University's senior governing board.
Harvard news: Allston development, education dean departs, social investing, multimillion-dollar gifts to universities, and more
Montage
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
The "Literally Psyched" columnist on Sherlock Holmes, perception, and mental prowess
Alumni
Author Philip Slater explains his views on the world
2013 Candidates for Harvard University Overseers and HAA elected directors
Harvard alumni are honored for service to clubs and Shared Interest Groups
Instructions for degree candidates and others
Alumni and their children visit Harvard
Shared Interest Group events in March and April