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All three winners of this year's Nobel Prize for Medicine are eminent scientists, but Mario Capecchi is the one with the spiral-staircase story: the starving, homeless Italian street kid who found his way to America, to Harvard, to Utah, ever the refugee, before finally arriving at eternal glory...
In the 1870s, when Faust’s alma mater Bryn Mawr was pioneering in higher education for women, Harvard’s President Charles W. Eliot, Class of 1853, doubted whether women’s “natural mental capacities” were up to the challenge. Co...
The “Veritas” in Harvard’s shield was originally intended to invoke the absolutes of divine revelation, the unassailable verities of Puritan religion. We understand it quite differently now. Truth is an aspiration, not a possession. Yet in this we—and all...
Gore said in a statement today that “we face a true planetary emergency. The climate crisis is not a political issue; it is a moral and spiritual challenge to all of humanity.”
Part of Vansandt's challenge as he threads through Musayyib's busy market sector is to out-sell a particularly tough JAM cell in a sector where he needs the citizen's patrols. His superiors say JAM has been threatening residents, and have even killed the entire family of a...