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The great Vinland Map debate, part 476
The Vinland Map -- either the oldest known map of the Western hemisphere or a magnificent forgery -- is back in the news. An Analytical Chemistry paper scores a significant point for the believers.

Old magic proves elusive for basketball team
Although Yale's basketball teams regularly play half a season's worth of non-conference games in November and December, everyone knows the real season starts in January with the Ivy League campaign.


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Where they are now:
Ming Tsai '86

A Q&A with the first-generation Chinese American and third-generation Yalie reveals how a mechanical engineering major became a celebrity chef.

Remembered: Dr. Robert Arnstein '41
Sam Chauncey '57, a friend of Arnstein's and former secretary of the university, pays tribute the the former chief psychiatrist at University Health Services.

Just our type
For years, the only definitive mark of a Yale building was a forbidding "Authorized Personnel Only" notice over the doorknob. But all that is starting to change.

 
 

features

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The Belly of the Beast
Don't blame Americans for being fat. Blame the American Dream. We've built our land of milk and honey, and now, says a controversial Yale psychologist, it's doing us in.

 

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An Engineer for the Avant-Garde
Natalie Jeremijenko makes robotic dogs, genetically identical trees, remote-controlled geese -- and social commentary. It's art, all right. But is it engineering?

 

 

 

 

 

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