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Table Of Contents: Features

Gone Fishing

Can a bold new management approach save one of America’s most bountiful fishing grounds?

Indian Summer

The U.S. ambassador to India explains how the world’s largest democracy won the hearts of U.S. business

City of God

The School of Theology is looking at how the best city ministers balance it all, and how its students can do it, too

Table Of Contents: Commonwealth

Window Treatment

Student artwork transforms Warren Towers' facade

Where to, BU?

Talking with Trustee Chair Robert Knox

He's Key

Master locksmith is still opening doors at BU

Student ID

Sitting down with Fang Yuan (CAS'12)

The Hot Seat

Staying the course, and psyching out the competition

The Media Made Me Eat It

Learning how America sells food to men. And to women

Cutting Through the Noise

A new effort to help soldiers— and the hearing-impaired— tune out the din

Advice from the Top About How to Get There

A CEO's take on picking and winning your battles

Love Lessons from a Killer Whale

Finding clues for a happy marriage in the wild kingdom

Fighting Cancer with Facebook

MED student on a mission taps the power of online social networking

Community Builder

Philanthropist, trustee emeritus Gerald Tsai, Jr., dies at 79

Along the Avenue

A safer, greener Comm. Ave.

Goodwill Visit

A MET prof's travels

Partnering for Global Health

BU begins series of collaborations with Indian public health community

New Leadership for Two BU Schools

SDM and STH announce new deans

Table Of Contents: Explorations

All's Not Fair in War

Douglas Kriner and coauthor Francis Shen, a former doctoral classmate at Harvard, spent the past five years examining the county-by-county concentrations of American wartime casualties from World War II to Iraq, and how the local disparities influence political behavior

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Where Autism Begins

Probing the infant mind for early clues to the neurological impairment.

Silent Strokes

A MED study adds more good reasons for keeping blood pressure and cholesterol in check

Table Of Contents: Perspectives

Too Much of a Good Thing?

An economist explains how to save what you need for retirement and spend what you need now

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Free Radical

The digital revolution is on, says blogger Markos Moulitsas (LAW'99)

The Magic Flute's Magic Revealed

College of Fine Arts

Table Of Contents: Alumni Books And Reviews

A Voice from the Future

Speculative fiction writer Neal Stephenson talks about his new book, his influences, and why he can’t write short

Entering the Fray

The women journalists who fought to cover Vietnam

Table Of Contents: Alumni Notes

Vowing Equality

From a concept born at BU, Jonathon Feit prepares to launch a new kind of wedding magazine

“Seeing” Stars

Astronomer Noreen Grice promises the moon, the sun, and the stars to the visually impaired

Toys Gone Bad

Father-daughter consumer advocates keep the toy industry honest

Table Of Contents: Obituaries

Guiding CFA to New Heights

Norman Dello Joio hailed as prolific composer, talented leader

“All That Was Good in Journalism”

Jim Thistle, director of broadcast journalism, remembered as local TV legend and valued mentor for nearly three decades

Table Of Contents: Alumni Notes | Letters To The Editor

Over the Rainbow

To find a lost mother, a son follows the melody