July/August 2010

Features

COVER STORY

The Comeback Corals

Around the world, coral reefs are dying as oceans warm. But near a tiny island in the South Pacific, researchers have discovered corals that have adapted to survive. They could be the key to saving a verdant sea.

The Iranian Optimist

Imprisoned by the shah, exiled by revolutionary excesses, Abbas Milani has spent 25 years pushing for democratic change in his home country. What makes him think it can happen now?

WH2OA!

The shimmering, spiraling, gravity-defying water installations created by Mark Fuller, MS '78, and his company have not only beautified resorts around the world, they have established a new genre of art.

Facing the Heat

The already fractious debate over climate change has boiled over in recent months with threats and accusations against scientists. One target has been Professor Stephen Schneider, who says the public is being snookered by a radical fringe intent on obscuring the facts.

Departments

FIRST IMPRESSIONS

What Lies Beneath

The trouble with corals

PRESIDENT'S COLUMN

At Last, a Place to Play

A lift for the arts

1,000 WORDS

Dig This

END NOTE

Green Eyes, White Hair

The familiar in a strange land

Red All Over

Farm Report

Planet Cardinal

PURSUITS

How She Rolls

Suburban mom by day, roller-derby mama by night

BEING THERE

Utopia Unfinished

In the Arizona desert, an ideal lives on

Showcase

Reality Twice Removed

Kota Ezawa's flattened images

As She Likes It

Spotlighting women's scripts

Rusty Redux

A familiar defendant returns

Class Notes

CLASS NOTES

The Dish

Profiles

TIME CAPSULE: FRED FLAXMAN, MA '64

Sole Mates

SPOTLIGHT: NICK MARINARO, '72

7,000 Incidents, No Cats

SPOTLIGHT: LINDSAY AMSTUTZ, '00, MA '01

Key Player

Farewells

Prolific Architect

John Carl Warnecke

Making Up Baby

Anneliese Korner

Witty Botanist

Reid Venable Moran

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