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...need insurance to protect against risks we can't predict (when the market collapses) and can't afford to recover from on our own. "People tend to meld savings and insurance in their mind, but they are not substitutes," says Nancy Altman, a former Harvard professor and the author of The Battle for Social Security. "It's fine to have a savings plan as a supplement but not as the main retirement protection for everyone." She says the best way to guarantee a replacement for people's wages in retirement is by pooling risk, and the way to do that...
...Scientists have not really understood how the double helix folds to fit into the nucleus of a human cell,” said co-first author Erez Lieberman-Aiden, a researcher at Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and in the laboratory of Eric S. Lander at the Broad Institute. “This new approach enabled us to probe exactly that question...
Harvard’s Houghton Library announced earlier this week that it will acquire the John Updike Archive—an extensive collection of Updike’s original manuscripts, correspondence, photographs, and files, including documents that the author had kept private...
Updike ’54, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, died in January...
...author said she was speechless when she heard the news. "I am so surprised and I still can't believe it," she said in a statement released by her publisher...