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May/June 2009
Volume lxxi, Number 5

Click on photos at left to read stories. (Credits, from top: ©Bildarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz/Art Resource NY, ©Yale University Art Gallery, and ©Mark Ostow.)

Feature stories:

Not the New Haven you remember  
by Mark Alden Branch '86
Despite the recession, the Elm City is alive with construction cranes and startup businesses. Suburbanites come here to shop. Foodies rave. Can it be? Amazingly, New Haven is hot.

The anti-ivory tower brigade  
by Cathy Shufro
Yale volunteerism is bigger than Dwight Hall.

Company town  
by Bruce Fellman
Yale wants to turn New Haven into a hotbed of spinoff businesses.

It's not just pizza anymore  
by Michael Agger '95
I came, I ate, I was conquered.

Arts for all  
by Christopher Arnott
New Haven would be an arts hub with or without that big university in the middle of town.

from the editor
The art of the business district.

letters
On writing really well; free lunches; Mory's, pro and con; W.

light & verity
+ Unions approve contracts -- nine months early.
+ Apaches sue to recover Geronimo's skull.
+ Yale recruits leading global warming expert.
+ College expansion postponed as belts tighten.
+ The Cupcake Truck.
+ Yale sues to protect Van Gogh painting.
+ Campus clips
+ Quoted
+ Biologist to head Yale's environment school.
+ Updates
+ A nomination and a ruckus for Law School dean.
+ Webwatching

milestones
+ Custom-made cancer care.
+ More news of Yale people.

where they are now
Civic responsibility, and fun, too.

scene on campus
New Haven's club scene -- and we don't mean Elizabethan.

old yale
How Yale Clubs started.

q&a: rick levin
On the right number of auto companies, and how to fix the banks.

findings
+ Diagnosing Akhenataten.
+ Galaxy hunters.
+ Your ageism can hurt you.
+ Child soldiers.
+ Noted

arts & culture
+ Object Lesson: Jefferson at Yale.
+ Fred Shapiro on "the whole nine yards."
+ Darling, he's playing your song.
+ Calendar
+ The legal battles for gender equality.
+ Books by Yale authors

news from alumni house
Giving back, south of the border.

sporting life
+ Speed demons.
+ Sports shorts

the yale classifieds
Travel for the active Yale alumnus.

school notes
News about your Yale school.

alumni notes
News of Yale College classmates.

deaths

last look
Eau de nano.