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Magazine readers nationwide may have been surprised yesterday when they picked up what looked like a thin April issue of National Geographic??and found Paris Hilton cavorting with a stuffed elephant and gorilla on the cover. No, it’s not an actual copy of the iconic nature publication, but an April Fools’ parody issue distributed across the country in a collaborative effort between National Geographic magazine and The Harvard Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine. The Lampoon provided and controlled the content...
...film “Life is Beautiful.” Yet Diane Ackerman’s new book doesn’t fit into any single genre. Rather, Ackerman—poet, author of various nonfiction books on nature, and an essayist whose work has appeared in National Geographic??has combined all her talents to create a chaotic cornucopia of primary documents, creative narration, lyrical prose, and journalism. The book is told chiefly from the perspective of Antonina Zabinski, who, with her husband Jan, served as the keeper of the Warsaw Zoo under the Nazi regime...
Harvard graduates are known to excel in their fields. Some become President of the United States or president of a major news network. Wade Davis ’75 also excels in his field. He is National Geographic??s Explorer-In-Residence. What, exactly, does that entail? FM called him up to talk about the job. FM: How do you decide which places you will visit? WD: Generally what I’m trying to do is find stories that will allow for deeper stories that reveal the unique manifestation of the human heart. We?...
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