2005 Issue 2

When Kenneth Cain '87 stepped into New York City's Algonquin hotel for lunch in February, he looked energized. A controversial book he co-authored with two close colleagues at the United Nations, Emergency Sex and Other …

Some old aerial photos, a handmade map, a bright idea?that and a lot of hard work may provide a whole new way to evaluate and influence the rapid growth of Connecticut’s Middlesex County.   The project began when …

A woman's place is in the kitchen, the way to a man's heart is through his stomach, and the best way for a gal to hook a man is to demonstrate her domestic skills. At least this was the popular perception in post-World W…

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF ASTRONOMY EDWARD MORAN was toying with the idea of taking a webcam with him to the Kitt Peak National Observatory so sophomores in his Introduction to Astronomical Techniques class could get a clos…

By LARRY GETLEN SOMETIME IN THE FUTURE, a 14-year-old cousin you never met, who lives halfway across the country, steals a candy bar from a newsstand. He is given community service and released, and the incident will be…

VISITORS LOOKING FOR THE HEADQUARTERS OF IMCLONE would do well to keep the address in hand because the exterior of an aging building in lower Manhattan's SoHo area does not reveal its corporate resident. This low profile…

In 1929, Wesleyan became the first American university to own an Albert Einstein manuscript. Olin Library was barely a year old, and its "treasure room" was still relatively empty. What better gift for the splendid new l…

THE DEATH IN SEPTEMBER 2004 OF AN 11-YEAR-OLD THAI GIRL never would have made international news if her mother and her aunt had not become ill, too. Only when the older women were diagnosed with the feared avian flu did …

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