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...human condition. She usually manages to turn these characters into dark delights, whether they are the demographer in Game Control blithely planning a pandemic or the brittle mother in We Need to Talk About Kevin who abhors her child. Brilliantly funny and a superb plotter, Shriver is a master of the misanthrope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Ails Us | 3/22/2010 | See Source »

...master of the tall order. Bruce Graham, who died March 6 at 84, designed two of the biggest, most famous and most starkly beautiful buildings in the world, both for Chicago, where he spent almost his entire career at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. In 1970 the 100-story John Hancock Center was a revolution in skyscraper design. Working with Skidmore's brilliant engineer Fazlur Khan, Graham conceived a tapering tower with an exterior system of structural supports, including massive X-braces that made its façade a knockout emblem of architectural force. In 1974 Graham and Khan produced another masterpiece with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bruce Graham | 3/22/2010 | See Source »

Cheung—a nutrition lecturer at the Harvard School of Public Health who studied under Buddhist Zen master and co-author Thich Nhat Hanh in 1997—suggests that a healthy lifestyle stems from healthy eating and a focus on reducing stress...

Author: By Xi Yu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard School of Public Health Nutritionist Releases Book | 3/19/2010 | See Source »

Howard M. Georgi - Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics, Harvard College Professor, Master of Leverett House

Author: By George T. Fournier, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Spring Break Reading | 3/18/2010 | See Source »

Roger B. Porter - IBM Professor of Business and Government at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Master of Dunster House

Author: By George T. Fournier, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Spring Break Reading | 3/18/2010 | See Source »

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