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March/April 2010
volume 73, number 4

Credits, from top: ©RR Jones Photography, ©Gregory Nemec, and ©Yale University Arts of the Book Collection.

Feature stories:

Balancing Act
by Elizabeth Svoboda ’03
For people with diabetes, finding the equilibrium between sugar and insulin is a matter of survival—every day. A new “artificial pancreas,” still in the works, could change—even save—their lives.

This is My Book
by Alex Beam ’75
Nothing says “hands off” like a personal bookplate. Yale’s collection of nearly a million spans four centuries and three continents of bibliophilia.

The Wunderkind
by Julia M. Klein
Out of works built from his inner fears, 32-year-old playwright Itamar Moses ’99 stages an extraordinary rise.

from the editor
Boomers in the Peace Corps.

letters
Monday morning quarterbacking The Game; Saybrook’s missing scarf.

light & verity
+ The mobile carillon
+ Anchiornis huxleyi, fossilized and fabulous
+ Save Union Station’s schedule board
+ “Welcome to Yale” times four
+ Alumni by the numbers
+ Song-and-dance admissions video
+ Campus Clips
+ Public health through a global lens
+ Updates
+ Faculty-undergrad romances banned
+ Yale helps in Haiti
+ Balancing profit & principle
+ Webwatching
+ A new dean and new campus for SOM
+ Quoted

milestones
+ Erich Segal’s Yale career.
+ More news of Yale people

where they are now
An alum wins a spot in the Paul Taylor Dance Company.

scene on campus
How to play golf in a New Haven winter.

old yale
Yale’s nineteenth-century go-to guy for language questions.

q&a: rick levin
President Rick Levin '74PhD talks about the management school’s new dean.

findings
+ Duck sex
+ Noted
+ The bluest galaxies
+ New weapon against mosquitoes
+ A nanotech cancer test
+ “On Southbound Ease and Northbound Fees”

arts & culture
+ Object Lesson: a little detective work uncovers a local fossil site
+ The Eli who named the Yankees
+ Making music at Walter Reed
+ Portrait of a tree
+ Calendar
+ Should single women settle?
+ Books by Yale authors

sporting life
+ Armory closed, polo ponies evicted.
+ Sports Shorts

the yale classifieds
Lakeside, oceanside, and riverside vacation rentals and real estate listings.

school notes
News about your Yale school.

deaths

last look
Yale’s Oscar.

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