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As the population ages, robots are poised to offer a helping hand, a leg up, and a pep for your step.
What Are You Saying?
By analyzing the hidden meanings in everyday speech, Geoff Nunberg captures the zeitgeist and reveals how language shapes our thinking.
by Ann Hurst
Green Acres
With its beautiful vistas and peculiar charms Stanford Golf Course has been a beloved piece of Farm land for 75 years. Not to mention an early proving ground for some of the world's great golfers.
by Diane Rogers
Ready for Some Football
During his NFL playing career, Jim Harbaugh was known as "Captain Comeback." The second-year head coach of the Cardinal has brought the same intensity and competitiveness to his latest beat-the-odds challenge: making Stanford a winner again.
by Roy S. Johnson
Back to the Future
In the midst of the most ambitious capital-improvement program in Stanford's history, planners have returned to Frederick Law Olmsted's original campus vision to craft a blueprint for the Farm of the future.
by Theresa Johnston
It's Who You Know (Or Don't)
The phenomenon of social networking has researchers exploring just how effective these webs are at connecting people and building communities. ) ) ) As it turns out, six degrees of separation is a few too many
by Marina Krakovsky
Cardinal Contenders
Meet five Stanford alumni who endured injuries, grueling training and personal setbacks in their quest to win a place on the U.S. Olympic team.
by Brian Eule, Laura Kaufman and Felicia Paik
Stretch of the Imagination
Their assignment: make something useful with the lowly rubber band. In the Innovation Challenge, doing a lot with a little produced some interesting twists.
by Richard L. Brandt
Heard This One?
Inventor, composer, professor and performer, Mark Applebaum makes music unlike anything audiences have ever heard. They like the sound of it
by Brett Campbell
Can the West Lead Us to a Better Place?
Land of legend, purveyor of myth, the Western United States occupies a role as one of the world's most influential political and economic regions. How successfully it meets the challenges of environmental conservation, immigration and water management will help determine America's future.
by David M. Kennedy
A Whole New World
Fifty years ago, Stanford launched a radical experiment with its study-abroad program in Germany. Designed to serve all undergraduates, not just those with language training, the overseas programs became a staple of the Stanford experience, and a cultural awakening for tens of thousands of students.
by Theresa Johnston
