Ricardo Hausmann in The Economist

IN JUNE 2006 Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, then Brazil’s president, went to Itaboraí, a sleepy farming town nestled where the flatlands beside Guanabara Bay meet the coastal mountain range. He announced the building of Comperj—the Rio de Janeiro petrochemical complex, a pharaonic undertaking of two oil refineries and a clutch of petrochemical plants. With forecasts of 220,000 new jobs in a town of 150,000 people, Itaboraí geared up for a boom.

Today it is almost a ghost town. Its straggling main street adjoins an unopened shopping mall...

Kathryn M. Hatch, MD was quoted in an article in Ocular Surgery News. She was corresponding author on a study that found the use of intraocular aberrometry during cataract surgery with TORIC intraocular lens (IOL) implantation reduced postoperative residual refractive astigmatism compared to eyes undergoing surgery without aberrometry.

June 25, 2015 ...

The remarkable story of Charles L. Schepens, MD, is featured in the June 2015 issue of EyeWorld: The Newsmagazine of the American Society of Cataract & Refractive Surgery. Dr. Schepens is widely known as the Father of Modern Retinal Surgery and the founder of what is now the Schepens Eye Research Institute. However, his lesser-known role as...

​Contrary to previous statements, Dorchester’s Harambee Park, not Harvard, would host Olympic and Paralympic tennis if Boston is selected as the host city of the 2024 Summer Games, according to bid organizers, yet another sign that Harvard’s relationship with the bid is evolving.