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As Harvard Closes a Primate Research Center, Are Lab Chimps Becoming a Thing of the Past?
Harvard Medical School decided to close a major primate research center that had been linked to animal welfare problems. The pool of biomedical research money is...

Wither Goes Free Speech At Harvard?
A recent incident suggests administrators might be more concerned about ugly words than the underlying problems they were intending to satirize

WATCH: Five Guys From Harvard Send A Hamburger Into Space
A group of students has banded together for the noble goal of sending a hamburger into space -- a project dubbed "Operation Skyfall."

The School Ranking List Harvard Doesn’t Top
In a new survey, the elite Ivy places a mediocre 37th.
Cheating Harvard
They could use their notes, books and even the internet, but working together was forbidden: "Students may not discuss the exam with others," the directions...
Photo Essays

LIFE and Civil Rights: Anatomy of a Protest, Virginia, 1960
Very few non-violent civil disobedience tactics of the late 1950s and early 1960s were as brilliantly simple in conception and as effective in execution as the...

Gateway to a New World: Rare Photos From Ellis Island
For a country constantly patting itself on the back and touting its unique status as a “nation of immigrants,” the United States has an awfully hard time...


