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Features
As the population ages, robots are poised to offer a helping hand, a leg up, and a pep for your step.
Can They Ever Catch Up?
The eldest millennials are pushing middle age, and most of them still can’t buy a house. The problems—and possible solutions—for a generation that can’t escape the Great Recession.
by Rebecca Beyer
‘When You Don’t Know, You Feel Alone in the World’
The odyssey of having an undiagnosed disease.
by Deni Ellis Béchard
After Lightning Strikes
How the family of a Stanford professor cut down by stroke grew into a fortress of support.
by Debra Meyerson and Danny Zuckerman
The Accidental Maven of Menswear
Juhn Maing, ’93, was just trying to dress appropriately for work.
by Deni Ellis Béchard
Deceit Gets Smarter. Can Truth Keep Up?
Artificial intelligence is remaking the news. Those who control it are reshaping society.
by Deni Ellis Béchard
New Institute Prompts Focus on People-Friendly AI
Goals include getting the right diversity of voices to the table.
by Deni Ellis Béchard
The Legend of the Almost Lost
A vault. An unlikely group of heroes. An 11th-hour rescue. Here’s how a team of editors and librarians saved a piece of history.
by Michael Shapiro
Ambassadors for the West
Brothers Bill and Mel Lane ran Sunset Publishing for nearly 40 years.
by Michael Shapiro
