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Morbidity [or sickness] is also "U-shaped" in the sense that both very short sleep and very long sleep are associated with many illnesses-with depression, with obesity-and therefore with heart disease-and so forth. But the [ideal amount of sleep] for different health measures isn't all in the same place. Most of the low points are at 7 or 8 hr., but there are some at 6 hr. and even at 9 hr. I think diabetes is lowest in 7-hr. sleepers [for example]. But these measures aren't as clear as the mortality data...
...more solid realities. Past, Present, Future, the tour de force in this show, is an enormous half-hemisphere of purplish red wax and paint. Almost 30 ft. (9.1 m) wide, it bursts from a wall at one end of the gallery. A curving motorized blade rides slowly back and forth across its surface as though carving it, sending off splatters of wax along its circumference like solar flares. Wagnerian, mythic and muddy, it's something vast and strange being born, like a planet being fashioned out of primal elements and impersonal forces. Though in some ways this world is putty...
...Harvard emerges from this period of flux, Hammonds will be responsible for carrying forth several major initiatives launched by Pilbeam, specifically the implementation of the new General Education curriculum and the development of a $1 billion-plus House-renewal plan...
...think they had a very close and deep intellectual bond,” said Michael B. G. Froman, Rubin’s former chief of staff at the Treasury. “Oftentimes it was sort of like a constant seminar back and forth...It was a rich intellectual partnership—I say partnership on purpose, because Bob very much treated Larry like a very important partner in everything...
...meantime, however, public service still ranks low on the occupational list for a large number of Harvard students. Yet, for a student body so concerned with the future, so active in politics, environmental concerns and so forth on campus, it is worth reflecting on how much depends on what the government decides outside these ivy walls. Public service is the way to translate these ideal beliefs of our youth into substantive action. While we may imagine that things can be better, the good comes from acting on that imagination every...