February 1996
by Jeffrey Lott
A shoe computer that could get the day's news from the carpet. A coffeemaker that knows where your cup is. These and other "things that think" are being designed in the lab and the fertile imagination of physicist Neil Gershenfeld '81.
by Bill Kent
Based on the simple assumption that rheumatoid arthritis stems from infection, Dr. Thomas McPherson Brown '29 began treating sufferers with antibiotics in the '40s. Many branded his method unorthodox-but modern medicine is giving it renewed interest.
by Christopher F. Edley Jr. '73
Our best constitutional traditions seek to balance the tension between state and individual, says law professor Christopher Edley '73. But we must also seek to balance the tension between our personal values and those that operate in the civic sphere.
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