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May/June 2006
Volume 69, Number 5

Feature stories:

May/June 2006 cover  

Evolution in a Petri Dish

Paul Turner grows deadly viruses—deadly to bacteria, that is—to find out how life evolves.

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Stories in the Stones
For more than 200 years, souls from town and gown alike have been memorialized in the Grove Street Cemetery.

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Should Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi Be at Yale?

The news that a former spokesman for the Taliban is taking courses in Yale College set off a debate on campus and in the media about the redemptive value of a liberal education.

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  Geronimo

Whose Skull and Bones?

Did Skull and Bones rob the grave of Geronimo during World War I? New evidence.

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from the editor

letters
Readers react to “The Baby Gamble,” jihad, Charles Hill, and football.

light & verity
+  impasse broken over Cancer Center
+  new deans for public health and art
+  Law School awaits ruling

milestones
The “bus-riding chaplain” comes to rest.

where they are now
The man who saved Chagall—and hundreds of others—from the Holocaust.

scene on campus
How to peek inside the atom.

old yale
A Divinity School grad who gave up his life jacket.

forum
The Da Vinci Code: fact and fiction about Jesus and Mary Magdalen.

q&a: rick levin
Yale’s “special student” programs.

findings
An advantage to being a lefty; how to grow better blood vessels; the way to your brain is through your stomach.

arts & culture
Chickens on stage—not on plates—at the Cabaret; the buzz (and clank, and thump) around a Yale percussion quartet; the meaning of class pictures; what separates Us from Them.

sporting life
A three-peat for women’s squash.

news from alumni house
A sounding board for the OCD.

deaths

last look

 
     
 
 
 
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