January/February 2011

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  • Extras
    How Suttirat Larlarb, '93, used yellow to illustrate the character of Latika in Slumdog Millionaire

Excerpt
Classics professor Ian Morris, author of Why the West Rules—For Now, describes his vision of a posthuman world civilization

Postscript
Catch up with past stories and subjects: Actor James Franco makes a documentary about his mom, children's author Betsy Franco, '69; a piano-playing "experiment" by Jon Nakamatsu, '91, MA '92, is still going strong 12 years later; global virus hunter Nathan Wolfe, '92, returns to the Farm; gourd guru Ginger Summit, '62, MA '63, turns to local politics; and more

  • Letters
    Points and counterpoints beyond the print edition

SAGE: Smart Advice for a Green Earth
Are showers or baths more efficient? What should you do about "vampire energy" of the gadgets you thought you turned off, and how can you recycle them? And how do you measure the environmental impact of all this, anyway? Your eco-questions, answered by students
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