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...Harvard has taught me that this obsession with youth should be able to be explained quite simply using the principles of the free market (thank you, Ec 10). On some level, this makes sense. Teenagers spend more leisure dollars in the United States than any other age category, making youth—and their preferences, including their standards of beauty—the sexiest, most powerful demographic out there. Once such a demand—here, the desire to be young forever—is identified, a good market will allow solutions to materialize...
...those not interested in moral reasoning, noon at Harvard offers a taste of history at its most entertaining with the deftly taught History 1635: "The History of Baseball." Professor of History William Gienapp is demanding, but his lecture style has earned him a cult following...
...Parents might find it easier to believe all this if it weren't for the increasingly fashionable theory of windows of opportunity for learning - the idea that there are comparatively narrow periods when various parts of the brain can be taught various types of skills. What gives the theory special weight is that there is, in fact, a little truth to it - but only very little. When it comes to language - perhaps the most nuanced skill a person can master - the brain does appear to have fertile and less fertile periods. At birth, babies have the potential to learn...
Literature and Arts C-40: "The Chinese Literati," taught by Professor of Chinese History Peter K. Bol, will now be cross-listed in Historical Studies...
Professor of Anthropology Maryellen Ruvolo will teach Science B-59: "Genes and Human Diversity," which she had previously taught as Anthropology...