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features

  • Mark Ostow

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    The bird-filled world of Richard Prum

    How an ornithologist discovered new kinds of color, proved T. rex had feathers, and answered the question “What is art?”

    Nov/Dec 2011
  • Julie Brown

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    Rewriting his own script

    You may never have heard of Guideposts magazine, but 2.3 million subscribers have. Its editor, Yale Drama grad Edward Grinnan ’82MFA, has a harrowing tale of addiction and recovery that could have come from its pages.

    Nov/Dec 2011
  • Margot Sanger-Katz ’02

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    Cold case: dinosaur edition

    Nick Longrich has found a half-dozen new species by looking at fossils other scientists had forgotten.

    Sep/Oct 2011
  • Christopher Gardner

    features

    "The mingled dust of both armies"

    Yale's Civil War memorial remembers all who died. But it forgets what the war was about.

    Sep/Oct 2011
  • Mark Ostow

    features

    Spymasters

    One took classes from the FBI. One worked at the CIA. One embedded in Iraq. You thought writing thrillers was easy?

    Sep/Oct 2011
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    What can we say?

    The fraternity chants that helped launch a federal investigation raise an old question: is it ever right for Yale to suppress or punish speech?

    Jul/Aug 2011