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Mark Hertsgaard is the author of Living Through the Storm: Our Future Under Global Warming, forthcoming from Houghton Mifflin Treating the First Casualty More than a century of efforts to protect New Orleans from flooding has left the city more vulnerable than ever. The coastline is shattered, and the land is sinking. Proposals for saving southern Louisiana could become a laboratory for U.S. coastal cities threatened by rising seas and stronger storms. [This article consists of a complex diagram. Please see hardcopy of magazine.] THINKING BIG Protecting New Orleans means putting more of everything between the city...
...Lipkind punctuated the performance—organized by Fredric W. Wilson, Curator of the Harvard Theatre Collection at Houghton Library—with comments to the audience regarding the genre of the music in the program. In his initial address, Lipkind said, “The goal is to look for moments that are from different points of view that are stuck between the Romantic and the Modern solutions. They don’t completely...
Books became a backdrop Thursday night at Houghton Library, ceding their spotlight to the latest installment in the Library’s Chamber Music Series: “Post-Romantik...
...result of Groopman's journey is How Doctors Think (Houghton Mifflin; 307 pages), an engagingly written book that is must reading for every physician who cares for patients and every patient who wishes to get the best care. Groopman says patients can prompt broader, sharper and less prejudiced thinking by asking doctors open-ended questions and learning to identify some of their common thinking mistakes...
...devote more time to writing. “Teaching at Harvard if anything probably interrupted his poetry,” Pearl said, noting it was one of the reasons Longfellow left. CELEBRATE As part of Harvard’s commemoration of the poet’s birthday, Houghton Library is presenting an exhibition entitled, “Public Poet, Private Man: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow at 200.” The exhibition, which runs from Jan. 16 to April 24, presents Longfellow “as a consummate literary professional,” according to a posting at the exhibit...