April 1, 2009
In This Corner
Punk Rockers in Yarmulkes
Video From the Ramones to Lou Reed to the Dictators, early punk owes its origins to Jewish rebels in the 1970s
People
Taming the Failed States
John Herbst, F80, a former ambassador, now heads up a State Department program that will dispatch civilians to help stabilize hot spots around the world
April People Notes
Ask The Professor
What is sabermetrics and why do baseball teams care so much about it?
Peter Bendix, A08, who taught “The Business of Baseball” at the Ex College and is currently a Tampa Bay Rays baseball operations intern, answers this month’s question:
Picking a Food Fight
Omnivore author Michael Pollan says we focus way too much on nutrients rather than the food itself, and end up ruining our meals—and our health
The Upside of the Downturn
Will putting the brakes on conspicuous consumption help put our economic house back in order?
Let X=X
Algebra is like a foreign language—the sooner students learn it in grade school, the better they’ll be at math later on
A Spectacle on Stage
In researching the life of leading 19th-century actress Clara Morris, Barbara Wallace Grossman discovered as much about the power of perseverance as she did about the history of theater
Briefs
Do Helping Hands Make for Better Engineers?
A new study seeks to discover if service learning leads to better engineering education—and more women in the field
Simin Meydani Heads HNRCA
Director of the Nutritional Immunology Laboratory now leads the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging
A Medley of Medals
Women’s distance relay wins second straight NCAA championship, as team comes in fifth overall in field of 68
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