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What Are the Costs?
The practice of implanting borrowed eggs into infertile women has produced thousands of dreams come true for childless families. But wealthy parents-to-be have complicated matters by seeking out trophy candidates and paying them huge sums. Ethicists and practitioners alike are quetsioning whether the price of eggs has gone too high.
by Joan O’C. Hamilton
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Photos to (Almost) Die For
Sharks "the size of min-vans," seldom-seen species and an epic journey beneath the ice of Antarctica are part of the hazardous, breathtaking work of naturalist/photographer Norbert Wu. As he prepares what experts say will be a revolutionary underwater documentary, this Cousteau protege is influencing the way we see the sea.
by Robert Strauss
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The Tyrone Zone
Magnetic, soft-spoken and hypercompetitive, head football coach Tyrone Willingham now has a Rose Bowl to his credit. So why isn't this man smiling?
by Kelli Anderson
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In Praise of Spoken Soul
Four years after the controversy over Ebonics, a professor of linguistics and his journalist son explain why black English thrives -- and why it should be celebrated.
by John Russell Rickford and Russell John Rickford
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Odd Man In
As the son of a New Deal icon, Harold Ickes once wanted nothing to do with politics. Yet he ended up as one of the most influential Democrats of his generation. His latest assignment: getting Hillary Clinton elected to the U.S. Senate.
by John F. Harris
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Making a Splash Down Under
Four dozen Stanford athletes hope to swim, run and jump their way to Olympic gold in Sydney. Meet a cyclist who lives in a van, a sprinter running for president and a fencer who carries a stuffed frog.
by Sherri Eng
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How Many Have You Done?
We unveil our definitive list of 101 things -- from fountain-hopping to library-napping -- that students must do to fully experience life at Stanford. How do you score?
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Holding On
Alzheimer's devastates families. But there can be surprising consolations, as the wife of a Stanford professor discovered.
by Michael Castleman, Dolores Gallagher-Thompson, and Matthew Naythons
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Poet Provocateur
Former executive Dana Gioia wants to take poetry public. Down with Ivory Tower elites. Up with bootstrap culture.
by Cynthia Haven
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The Drinking Dilemma
Stanford officials take an unusual -- and subtle -- approach to student alcohol consumption. Our reporter, a Stanford senior, goes inside the campus drinking culture.
by Jim Tankersley
