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...history department with her staunch confidence in her intellectual abilities, said history Professor John Womack Jr. “Every day I come down that hall in Robinson, I think for a happy second I may see her door open and her well again, there in the light,” said Womack, whose office faced Laiou’s for the past twenty years. “The door’s closed now.” Laiou’s son, Vassili N. Thomadakis ’96, said the commencement of every new academic year invigorated...
...Natural History Executive Director Elisabeth A. Werby ’72 used the words of conservationist Wendell Berry—“the only thing we have to protect nature with is culture”—to underline the importance of nature writing, especially in light the grave modern climate change situation. Payne said that as a nature writer, she finds that humans’ separation from nature is a more severe crisis than either global warming or the decimation of forests. “Most of the world now lives in urban areas. Children watch more...
...very, very cool one (see: Star Trek). For scientists, it's just very, very complex, so much so that at this point, teleportation is not a matter of moving matter but one of transporting information. Already, physicists have been able to exchange information between light particles - or photons - or between atoms, so long as they were right next to each other. The current experiment marks the first in which information has traveled a significant distance - 1 m, or a little more than 3 ft. - between two isolated atoms. It's also the first time the powers of a photon, which...
...group of alumni who in 2003 led a successful charge to reduce what it termed “excessive” multi-million compensation for Harvard’s money managers has renewed its push for lower pay in light of Harvard’s plummeting endowment value...
...often the case whenever abortion or birth control is the topic, the debate has generated much heat and very little light. With that in mind, let's try to separate fact from fiction on the family-planning flap...