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Internet entrepreneurs are finding fertile ground in China's emerging market economy, and some Stanford alums are leading the way. Online business is fostering community in the world's most populous nation, and helping change the place that is changing the world.

by Joel McCormick

Meet some pop musicians whose version of success might not include groupies and tabloid covers. They give away their music, promote their own careers and revel in the thing that major-label artists have lost: independence.

by Summer Moore Batte

They hail from sun-drenched California towns and Iowa farms. Some inspire fanatical followings while others toil in obscurity. Stanford athletes at this summer's Olympics are a varied lot, but have one thing in common: dreams of gold.

by Brian Eule

We're living longer than ever, but Stanford researchers say our approach to aging is stuck in a time warp.

by Kevin Cool

Battered by cystic fibrosis, she had her first surgery at age 7 and a lung transplant at 13. Although she was in and out of hospitals for all of her 21 years, Leslie Hotson didn't let the struggle to live get in the way of having a life.

by Jocelyn Wiener

While there is little argument about the need to teach humanities to first-year students, there is plenty of disagreement about how to do it. After five years of tweaking, the latest pedagogical approach, Introduction to the Humanities, has begun to win converts.

by Diane Rogers

Squirt-gun assassins. Go-naked rituals. Dorms nicknamed after aging Scottish actors. Here are 19 examples of surprising, delightful and outrageous Stanford phenomena that keep life interesting.

Scholars have called her work indispensable and irreplaceable. Jean Oi s ) forays into rural China to document changes in post-Mao society have produced ) fresh insights into peasant politics, and a generation of inspired students.

by Diane Rogers

Fifteen years ago, the Farm was looking a little rundown. Dorms leaked, classrooms ) were dingy, and scientists languished in the so-called Then ) came the Loma Prieta earthquake, hundreds of millions of dollars in renovation ) projects, and an era of construction unmatched in University history. Here ) is how Stanford looks now.

by Theresa Johnston

New investigations confirm she was poisoned by strychnine, but the case will never be solved. Someone got away with murder.

by Susan Wolfe