Worth a Glam

In a night on ambulance duty, a medical student learns that a minute lasts longer than he ever imagined -- and that in a struggle with death, stalemate can mean victory.

by Adam Strassberg

Genetic geographer Luca Cavalli-Sforza earned an international reputation tracing ancient human migrations. Now his plan to build a global DNA bank has led to charges of "biopiracy."

by Mitchell Leslie

Vikram Seth was doing a PhD in economics when he got diverted by a writing fellowship -- and became a poet, translator, travel writer and best-selling novelist instead.

by Cynthia Haven

Anthropologist David Stoll's exposé of a Nobel Peace Prize winner has set off a furor and dredged up old arguments from the campus culture wars of the 1980s.

by Robert Strauss

With an eye for detail and a quirky sense of humor, cartoonist Hilary Price finds fodder in everyday life. Her comic strip, "Rhymes with Orange," runs in 100 newspapers.

by Kelli Anderson

When 74 years of Communist rule ended, archivist Charles Palm saw his chance. Here's how he brought 25 million pages of once-secret Soviet history to Stanford.

by Bernard Butcher

To impress the admission office, Stanford applicants send cookies, boxer shorts and life preservers to the admission staff. Just one problem: the stunts don't work.

by Jesse Oxfeld

As a boy, he found reading maddeningly difficult. Now the stock market tycoon is using his fortune to help families cope with dyslexia and other learning problems.

by Theresa Johnston

When Grandma met Grandpa, she was all blue eyes and hips and a voice like hazelnut custard. He was handsome like the devil. The winning entry in our annual fiction contest.

by Katie Mauro

After a quarter century of affirmative action, less than one-fifth of Stanford professors are women. Everyone agrees there's a problem, but how far should the University go to fix it?

by Yvonne Daley