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The Upward Mobility Problem
… and now I’m shifting a ten-speed,” says Gary Jones with the sort of smile you hear before you see it. From eight in the … of Americans attending four-year college continues to rise—and yet, countries such as Finland and Denmark send …
Issue: May-June 2022
At Home with Harvard: The Art of the Profile
… Profiles are one of Harvard Magazine ’s most often written … profiles of Harvard faculty and alumni, covering how they became who they are, their interests, what makes them … the admission of women, the Harvard-Radcliffe merger, the rise of women in the faculty ranks, Harvard’s first woman …
The Mindfulness Chronicles
… Harvard, Ellen Langer and her colleagues piled two groups of men in their seventies and eighties into vans, drove them two hours … street to incapacitation.” What she found, however, surprised even her own team of researchers. Before and after the …
Issue: September-October 2010
The Road to Romance
… "I'm at that age where I'm crossing the threshold from high-school-fantasy concepts of romance to the brutal, painful, hopeless world of adult … into the broader sexual revolution, which in time gave rise to coed dormitories and the contemporary notion that …
Issue: March-April 2003
When Systems Fracture
… As the enormity of September 11 sank in, a fertilizer factory … say the other was almost certainly an accident. But think of the technological vulnerabilities the assailants … disastrously and suddenly when certain thresholds--in the machines' case, marked by red lines on gauges--are exceeded. …
Issue: November-December 2001
Wired for Life
… Forget the stereotypes of new technology being only for younger … Retirement communities generally are also responding to the rise in on-line literacy with a two-pronged effort: support …
True Lies
… Only the ampersand is still visible; Benjamin Franklin’s thick … Thomas Jefferson, having finished tinkering with his draft of the declaration, asked Franklin to review it. The elder … later the first federal immigration laws revealed how the rise of nativism constricted the notion of political …
Issue: September-October 2018
Rage, Reborn
… headline caught his eye: “Donald Trump Rages Against the Machine.” The chyron cheekily referenced Rage Against … the Machine, the 1990s rock band whose pioneering synthesis of hip-hop’s rhythmic lyricism and heavy metal’s … ideals. So, he says, “I did what any self-respecting pissed-off person would do: I wrote a snarky tweet about it.” Then …
Issue: July-August 2018
What a Human Should Be
… “We are gathering experience, ” Bauhaus workshop master Josef Albers … introductory course, which tried to scoop the gunk of aesthetic tradition and creative convention out of … arts, unified, would create a future that would “one day rise toward heaven from the hands of a million workers like …
Issue: March-April 2019
The Way We Eat Now
… bottled water—came from McDonald's. Spurlock recorded the results on camera for his film Super Size Me, which won … year's Sundance Film Festival. Super Size Me is also a kind of shock/horror movie, as viewers see the 33-year-old … over-responds to the spike in glucose—a more rapid rise than a hunter-gatherer's bloodstream was likely to …
Issue: May-June 2004
Cambridge 02138
… A Note to Readers The “7 Ware Street” column does not appear in this issue, … decided it was important to make space available for more of your letters to the editor, of which there were … disease (COVID, anyone?), global warming, sea-level rise, species extinction, aggravated by Man’s unfortunate …
Issue: January-February 2021
The Gene Hunter
… Louis M. Kunkel is a wiry man of medium height with a lot of energy, quiet passion, and notable persistence. The professor of pediatrics and of genetics has very little … to understand hereditary diseases and cancers that arise within us. Kunkel, in fact, is one of the researchers …
Issue: March-April 2011
Graduate School of Design Launches $110-Million Campaign
… The Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) launched its … as climate change, resilience in the face of sea-level rise, the ability of small-scale interventions to make … materials but also in how they can invent new materials and machines to create them. In an afternoon panel on …
Jobs and Jail
… In the 1970s and ’80s, America’s cities were engulfed in … hollowed out, and fragile working-class communities ruined. Often, it’s told as a white working-class story, but … home that I had been raised in. Drug addiction was on the rise. People had to rely more on public assistance to get …
Issue: May-June 2021
Music, Taken Personally
… ago , composer John Adams '69, A.M. '72, was conductor of the undergraduate Bach Society Orchestra. A Crimson critic … marriage, for example, is brief and reticent. We view his rise to his current eminence obliquely, as a progress from …
Issue: May-June 2009