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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.
Turning the Tide
Nearly one year after the tsunami wiped out scores of Indonesian towns, Kuntoro Mangkusubroto is using all of his skill to rebuild homes and hope.
by Joel McCormick
These Old Houses
Take a walk through the Farm s historic homes, a collection whose colorful pasts include an infamous murder, a ghostly presence and a future president.
by Theresa Johnston
Bring Your 'A' Game
The resignation of athletic director Ted Leland adds another variable to an already daunting struggle: combining championship sports with rigorous academic standards. Balancing students well-being, faculty concerns and the desire to win compels Stanford to play the game with its own set of rules.
by Kelli Anderson
The Emergence of Nicole Krauss
She began as a poet, enthralled by the work of Joseph Brodsky. Now Nicole Krauss s novel The History of Love is getting wide acclaim and something she didn't expect - a wide audience.
by Ann Marsh
The Bard, the Bunny and the Beat
Scholars and students pry open the past at Stanford's special collections, a trove of the rare and priceless.
by Theresa Johnston
The Lionheart
With tenacity born from a scrappy childhood and with charisma that has endeared him to everybody from college undergraduates to New York's elite, Vartan Gregorian has redefined the notion of public intellectual
by Jesse Oxfeld
Thrown a Curve
Battered by more than 20 years of kidney disease and cancer, Steven Skov Holt has sustained an optimistic vision about design that borrows from nature's "blobby" shapes. His ideas have helped mold a new way of making everyday objects.
by Joan O’C. Hamilton
Just Cool It
A pair of Stanford scientists has found an answer to performance enhancement that has nothing to do with drugs. Their device to cool the body core not only may revolutionize sports, it could improve quality of life for medical patients, too.
by Eva Ciabattoni
