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October 2002
Volume 66, Number 1

Feature stories:

October 2002 cover  

The Trouble with Frogs

Ecologist David Skelly is attempting to solve a puzzle: the recent appearance of amphibians with abnormal limbs. The answer could shed light on the mystery of human disease.

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The Duke and I

Edward Kennedy Ellington was awarded an honorary doctorate in 1967. A Yale biologist tells how the Duke became Doc.

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A Firm Foundation

Since 1953, the Ulysses S. Grant Foundation has given Yale undergraduates a place to try teaching—and New Haven schoolchildren the inspiration to dream big.

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One Good Turn

As an exhibition at the Art Gallery shows, wood turning has metamorphosed from simple craft to high art.

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Freshman Address

If the Class of 2006 needed a role model, Yale’s President told freshmen to look no further than Benjamin Franklin.

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Letters

Light & Verity
+  labor negotiations bog down
+  Princeton sorry for online snooping
+  goodbye Coliseum
+  Blue Planet award for FES dean
+  roundballers in Italy

Calendar
Wood works; book art; romantic painting.

Details
Mathematicians by birth.

In Print
Rich natural history; Greek life; a prof’s early days.

College Comment
Making the most of summer.

Faces
R. W. B. Lewis recalled; new crew coach; jazz great.

From the Archives

Inside the Blue Book
The physics of getting ahead.

News from Alumni House

Old Yale
A family’s gift of music.

 
     
 
 
 
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