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July/August 2007
Volume 70, Number 6

Feature stories:

July/Aug 2007  

Tracking the Reaper

Before an Atlanta lawyer flew over the ocean with XDR TB, before XDR TB even had a name, a handful of doctors encountered a terrifying disease they'd never seen before.

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Paper Trail

After E. Forbes Smiley III was caught stealing maps from Yale, Sterling Library inventoried its Map Collection and found that a hundred rare maps were missing. What makes Sterling’s maps so attractive? We bring you some close-ups.

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Hazing For Politicos

If you want to go places in the Yale Political Union, first you have to get through Inquisition Night. Bring a sense of humor. And a thick skin.

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Commencement 2007
President Levin talked about China, Emanuel Ax and Julie Harris were made honorary Elis, and the university minted 3,745 new alumni.

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from the editor

letters
SOM’s new curriculum, labor
relations, and God, y'all.

light & verity
+  Yale buys a ready-made 136-acre campus in West Haven
+  100 students and faculty tour China
+  con man caught operating out of a Law School office

milestones
Alumni elect a new trustee.

where they are now
Entomologist May Berenbaum '75 on the current buzz about honeybees.

scene on campus
Cross Campus Library’s new sod façade.

old yale
A house for chaplains.

findings
George, the lonely tortoise;
duck organs; birth and breath; the chemistry of memory.

forum
Should government tell you what to eat?

arts & culture
Bar patrons as art; a play that’ll fit in your living room; beach blanket books; the truth about Murphy’s Law.

news from alumni house
Bulldogs on the Cuyahoga.

sporting life
A national championship for women’s crew; the men’s heavyweights stun Harvard.

school notes
News about your Yale school.

deaths

last look

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