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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.
The Rah-Rah Sisterhood
They travel long distances, scream until they s basketball.
by Diane Rogers
He Changed the Landscape
Architect Thomas Church combined a European aesthetic with California s outdoor lifestyle to create spaces unique to Stanford. The best known and most visible, White Plaza, remains the signature of a campus that embraces openness.
by Raymond Hardie
Now Hear This
From Churchill's Archive of Sound is one of the world s leading repositories of historical and artistically significant recordings. Yet hardly anybody has ever heard of it.
by Diane Rogers
Brain Storm
is both revered and reviled for his unconventional ideas about the causes of mental illness. But even longtime critics are beginning to agree that Fuller Torrey s theories about schizophrenia make some sense.
by Tom Nugent
High Marks
Committed, courageous, occasionally cranky, Stanford's s most memorable teachers changed lives, one student at a time. In this sampling of remembrances, alumni offer glimpses of greatness.
Bay Watch
On a rocky point in Pacific Grove, near some of the world's most luxuriant ecosystems, scientists and students have explored the secrets of the sea for more than 100 years.
by Joe Hlebica
Spoiling Our Kids
Preoccupied parents, unregulated media and a proliferation of electronic gadgets in the home are damaging this generation of children, according to some Stanford experts.
by Joan O’C. Hamilton
Food Fight
Nutrition experts can't seem to agree on what kind of diet is best for a healthy heart. To help sort it out, the Medical School invited three of the nation's leading authorities to a no-holds-barred debate
by Christopher Vaughan
Family Man
David Chase never wanted to be a TV guy. But these days his mob drama The Sopranos is one of the most influential, talked-about series of all time and he has a lot to say about what's on television.
by Jesse Oxfeld