UpFront – Page 45 – Wesleyan University Magazine

2004 Issue 3September 20, 2004May 7, 2014

Last Lion To Be Finished

William Manchester, one of America’s most noted writers and historians, died June 1 at his home in Middletown, Conn., less than two weeks after his publisher announced that an agreement had been reached to help him finish the final volume in his biography of Winston Churchill: The Last Lion, Volume …

2004 Issue 3September 20, 2004May 5, 2014

HISTORICAL ROW: COUNTING CALORIES

While Wesleyan can't really take credit (or blame) for the South Beach Diet, we do count "the father of American nutrition" among our alumni. Wilbur Olin Atwater, Class of 1865 and professor of chemistry, was one of the…

2004 Issue 2May 20, 2004May 7, 2014

A Renaissance Murder Mystery

One of history's famous unsolved whodunits is the Pazzi conspiracy, in which an attempt to overthrow the Medici family, rulers of Florence, led to a brutal and brazen murder. For 500 years rumors have circulated about wh…

2004 Issue 2May 20, 2004May 7, 2014

Premium in Workplace

Beauty Lies in the Eye of Your Employer Beauty is most certainly in the eye of the beholder, but according to new research by Wesleyan economist Tanya Rosenblat and Harvard’s Markus Mobius, beauty is also in the eye of …

2004 Issue 2May 20, 2004May 7, 2014

Kanem Johnson ’04

Kanem Johnson ’04 is a lanky, 6-foot-4 basketball player from an inner-city high school in New Haven who listened to his mother. While he dreamed of stardom at a Division I school, she insisted that he keep acad…

2004 Issue 2May 20, 2004April 4, 2014

Q & A: The World’s Fittest Man

Decker dropped out of college and moved to New Orleans, where he alternated between binge drinking and fattening himself on burgers, fries, and pizza. One morning he woke early with a throbbing headache, having hardly sl…

2004 Issue 2May 20, 2004May 5, 2014

HISTORICAL ROW: FOOD FOR THOUGHT

In Wesleyan's first years, when most students boarded in town or lived in the Old Boarding Hall or the Dormitory (now known as North College), food was simple and plain. Many students were of relatively modest means, and…

2004 Issue 2April 6, 2004March 23, 2015