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...consumers in the late '50s, folk music was the Kingston Trio, with their frat-boy élan and their repertoire purloined from Seeger and other traditionalists. Then one man suggested that the genre could be bigger. "The American public is like Sleeping Beauty, waiting to be kissed awake by the prince of folk music," said Albert Grossman, a Chicago entrepreneur, at the first Newport Folk Festival, in 1959. Bob Dylan, whose manager Grossman became in 1962, may have been that prince, but the raspy-voiced kid needed troubadours to sell his message to the masses. Grossman had seen Travers perform...
...cases of acne. And so an international team of researchers - including scientists from Harvard Medical School in Boston and University Medical College in Tibet - decided the acne-depression question needed further investigation. The team's intriguing new paper, published this week in the open-access journal BMC Public Health, not only confirms that acne goes hand in hand with depression and anxiety but further suggests that teens' mental distress may in fact be worsening the condition of their skin. (See pictures of a diverse group of American teens...
...hope the room will fill up very quickly. The room comes courtesy of the recently-formed Lab for Economic Applications and Policy—a rare splurge amidst the University’s belt tightening—which was formed to promote the use of economics research in crafting public policy. “I want LEAP to be the place policy makers come to get evidence,” said Economics Professor Raj Chetty, who helped found the program as part of his tenure offer at Harvard in 2008. Funding has been allocated on the order of $1 million...
...fingers on the pulse of the times. If anyone would know what’s in now, they would. (Apparently, I should be monitoring Nick Jonas more closely.) Last time I checked, I detected no worrisome references to new technologies, but that might be because I was using a public terminal and had to stop after only three hours because people were giving me strange looks. I know it’s going to happen, though. Someday, casually surfing the web, I’ll notice people posting about new technologies with names like “harking?...
...discussed QSA’s role among queer identity groups on campus. Nothing was decided at the meeting, but Garland and Chan said they plan on presenting new proposals based on yesterday’s feedback at their next executive board meeting. Executive board meetings are open to the public. —Staff writer Eric P. Newcomer can be reached at newcomer@fas.harvard.edu...