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Three prominent Boston Red Sox fans discussed the role of baseball in American culture in front of a standing-room only crowd that turned out to the Institute of Politics’ “Take Me Out to the Ballgame!” forum on Friday afternoon. The discussion, which featured Pulitzer-Prize winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, documentary filmmaker Ken Burns and baseball television analyst Peter Gammons, focused on the game’s impact on race and family life. They addressed the question of how the sport has taken on a singularly influential place in the American...
...reason we’re not finding any brown fat is that we were not looking in the right place,” he said. Analyzing a combination of over 3000 PET and CT scans, the team found trace amounts of brown fat nestled under the muscles in the front of the neck. “This was actually a bothersome thing to the radiologists,” said Allison B. Goldfine, an associate professor at HMS and one of the paper’s authors. “With the new technology that radiologists were using to find tumors...
Student models strutted down the runway in front of a sold-out crowd in Annenberg Hall Saturday night during the third annual Identities Fashion Show, sponsored by the Asian American Association. The models showed off clothes that explored the interplay between fashion and cultural identity, with a focus on the Asian American experience. Three themed acts—Demure Danger, Asian Americana, and Street Culture—exhibited mixes of Eastern and Western styles. Designers from Harvard College, the Parsons School of Design, and the Fashion Institute of Technology showcased their work in two “Student Design?...
...system that traditionally spawns serpentine lines of parents around Washington's Ellipse. The switch was designed to encourage visitors from around the country - families from at least 45 states are expected to attend - though huge demand for tickets left many parents frustrated and empty-handed, despite spending hours in front of their computers. A reminder, perhaps, that this particular rite of spring is designed primarily for the enjoyment of children, not grown-ups. As former Clinton adviser Bruce Reed, a seven-roll veteran, told the New York Times: "It was an experience that you wouldn't want to miss...
...comfortable confines of the sandbagged observation tower at Restrepo. On the ground I no longer had that problem. Incoming AK-47 fire is higher pitched and metallic sounding. It shatters the rocks above your head and showers you with their fragments. It kicks up clods of dirt in front of you. It makes you run faster than an Olympic sprinter, 30 lbs of body armor, darkness and rocky path be damned...