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Breaking the Chain

By Geoff Koch

Can a mathematical model slow the spread of AIDS? Sociologist Martina Morris ’80 may have the answer.

Road Warrior

By Randall S. Barton

Runaway. Street musician. Cab driver. Novelist. The protean career of Vanessa Veselka ’10.

The Maestro of Chaos

By Kurt Opprecht ’85

David Bragdon MALS ’10 is NYC’s master planner.

Editor's Note

• The Rearguard of the Revolution

Eliot Circular

• A Stitch in Time Saves Iphigenia
• The Gray Fund: 20 Years On
• Bricks and Mortar in Tanzania
• Class of ’11: Where are they now?
• Graduation Rate Hits 70%
• New Dean Oversees Sexual Assault Prevention
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• Art in her Genes

Empire of the Griffin

• Boar’s Head Banquet
• Chapter Spotlight
• Mars Gallery

Features

• Breaking the Chain
• Road Warrior
• The Turmoil in Tibet
• The Maestro of Chaos
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• The Marketplace of Ideas
• The Rest is History
• The Home Stretch
• In Memoriam: Howard Wolpe ’60

Reediana

• “An Inefficient Truth”: Charles Collier ’72
• A Natural History of Revolution: (Cornell University Press, 2011)
• Reediana Briefs

Alumni Profiles

• Peter Ash ’66: Solving Arithmophobia
• Paul Knoepfler ’89: Stem-Cell Blogger
• Jamie Isenstein ’98: The Lady Vanishes
• Kristin Harper ’02: Skeletons and Syphilis

VIDEO: Path of Destruction

This animation developed by sociologist Martina Morris ’80 (see cover story ) shows how concurrence—or overlapping sexual partnerships—accelerate the spread of HIV through a population of 10,000 young adults.