Featured series 
Month: March 2010
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Nation & World
Princeton douses Crimson hopes
Women’s basketball team falls to first-place Princeton for first home loss in more than a year.
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Chomsky rates Obama’s first year
Activist Noam Chomsky tells the Memorial Church gathering that President Obama, after a year in office, projects a foreign policy with real vision, but “hasn’t succeeded much in practice.”
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It’s all in the cortex
Research suggests that the brain’s lateral prefrontal cortex plays an important role in showing how well someone can rebound emotionally the day after an argument.
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Transfer ‘ensemble,’ Port-au-Prince
Transporting patients from one location to another in post-quake Haiti can be a complicated task; often involving barriers of logistics, distance, and language. Sometimes the greatest challenge is a ticking clock.
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Climate coverage difficult, but journalists shouldn’t opt out
Not so long ago it appeared that a U.S. cap-and-trade bill was well on its way to becoming reality. But then came the “climategate” emails and increased political opposition, particularly in the Senate, to taking action. While public worries over the impacts of climate change had once been climbing, they’ve since fallen to levels lower…
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Reducing car and truck carbon emissions difficult but feasible
A new study from current and former researchers at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs finds that reducing greenhouse gas emissions from transportation will be a much bigger challenge than conventional wisdom assumes – requiring substantially higher fuel prices combined with more stringent regulation.
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Passionate advocate of human rights
Canadian Supreme Court judge, child of Holocaust survivors, argues passionately that nations should value human rights over simple laws, and that the United Nations should step up.
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Infant mortality down, ailments persist
José Cordero, dean of the University of Puerto Rico’s School of Public Health, said that the progress made in the 20th century on infant mortality has revealed new health concerns stemming from that success: how to reduce birth defects and provide care for the greater number of children who are surviving them.
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Looking ordinary, being exceptional
Harvard’s Fine Arts Library, in temporary digs at Littauer Hall, follows a gold standard for sustainability.
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From book to cinema
FAS professor learns in roundabout fashion that her book about the sexual abuse of Peruvian women has become an inspiration for an award-winning film.
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Faith and the marketplace
A panel of religious scholars examined the role of organized religion in helping to shape the national debate on economic reform and the country’s moral direction.
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Days to find a doctor
Patients at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative field hospital at Fond Parisien, Haiti, share their stories of the deadly Jan. 12 earthquake and its aftermath.
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Artists and hard times
A Harvard Art Museum lecture series explores topics from multiple points of view, in this case concerning economic turmoil.
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‘Better’ – A story of survival
Among the millions of “Haiti earthquake stories” from January 12, 2010, here is one.
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Volunteer base camp, Port-au-Prince
Caring for volunteers who care for Haiti’s sick and wounded is a full-time, round-the-clock job, requiring the barest of necessities.
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Signs of ‘snowball Earth’
Researchers find strong clues that sea ice covered tropical climes, including the equator, 716.5 million years ago, suggesting there was a time of a “snowball Earth.”
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Scientists find signs of ‘snowball Earth’
Geologists have found evidence that sea ice extended to the equator 716.5 million years ago, bringing new precision to a “snowball Earth” event long suspected of occurring around that time.
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‘Building back, better’
Haitians face a long road for post-earthquake recovery. Some Harvard faculty members will walk it with them.
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GSD Platform 2
In this annual manifesto of studio work, theses, exhibitions, and conferences, Felipe Correa, an assistant professor of urban design, offers a lively look into the Harvard Graduate School of Design.
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Sixteen years later, she’s in first place
Harvard hockey coach Katey Stone became the college women’s all-time wins leader with a victory over Princeton.
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Lowell House Opera
For almost three-quarters of a century, the Lowell House Opera has given the Harvard community, and the community at large, something to sing about.
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János Kornai Leontief Medal for economics contributions
Former economics professor János Kornai was awarded the Leontief Medal, given annually to several Russian economists and one international economist for contributions to the field of economics.
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David Mooney elected to NAE
David J. Mooney, a professor at Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering.
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From bodysuits to bikinis
Library cataloger Marilyn Morgan is writing a book about American women and their bathing suits, and what that says about early 20th century cultural norms.
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Deep thinking
The Museum of Comparative Zoology’s invertebrate collection continues to expand, as biology professor Gonzalo Giribet brings home samples from the deep ocean in the North Atlantic.
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Too Big to Save? How to Fix the U.S. Financial System
Robert Pozen, a Harvard Business School lecturer, poses long-term solutions for solving the problems of now. From the housing slump and the stock market to the big bank bailout, this book is a blueprint for reform.
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Shakespeare and Modern Culture
Timeless Shakespeare is actually timely, says Marjorie Garber, a well-known professor who directs the Carpenter Center, in this penetrating text devoted to 10 of the Bard’s foremost plays and the ways they’re inextricably tangled into the fabric of modern culture.
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Gender bargaining in Islam
Radcliffe Fellow Nancy J. Smith-Hefner studies the “gender paradox” among Muslim youth in Java.
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Chocolate May Make Some Strokes Less Likely
In news that’s sure to delight chocolate lovers, a Harvard study finds that a couple of squares of dark chocolate a day might reduce the risk of a hemorrhagic stroke, by 52 percent.
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The HGLC announces fellowship for summer 2010
The Harvard Gay and Lesbian Caucus (HGLC) is encouraging all current full-time students at Harvard to apply to the HGLC Public Service Fellowship, made possible with support from The Open Gate Foundation.