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March/April 2006
Volume 69, Number 4

Feature stories:

The Baby Gamble
by Nadya Labi ’02MSL
Do changing diapers and helping with homework leave time for world-class scholarship? Yale academics share their theories—and their frustrations.

Power Hungry
Photography by David Ottenstein ’82
To keep up the search for veritas, Yale needs a lot of lux. We got inside the university’s 89-year-old power plant to see how it’s done.

Stalking the Killer Mosquito
by Cathy Shufro
How do you stop a bloodthirsty predator from spreading malaria? Zero in on its sense of smell.

from the editor

letters
Jihad and theology; anthropology and sports; the man with the answers.

light & verity
+  the Cancer Center dispute
+  a gift to support budding journalists
+  Yale divests from Sudan

milestones
Bon anniversaire to a 100-year-old French professor; three new members named to Yale’s governing board.

where they are now
Greetings from the IRS commissioner—Class of 1976.

scene on campus
The Year of the Dog in Woolsey Hall.

old yale
Yale’s loudest critics, circa 1931.

forum
Bruce Ackerman’s “emergency constitution.”

q&a: rick levin
Can Yale be too rich?

findings
Does the prostate cancer test work?; the soda-cancer connection, debunked; love and law.

arts & culture
The man who saved the freak show; a misunderstood gorilla; Bremer ’63 in Baghdad.

news from alumni house
At home in the print shop.

sporting life
Our men in pro baseball; an Olympic hockey star.

deaths

last look

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