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To Catch a Shooting Star
Farm Report

To Catch a Shooting Star

How dangerous are meteoroids?

by Chris Palmer

Farm Report

Start-ups Get New Boost

University opens investment fund

Sunday Painters Welcome Here
Farm Report

Sunday Painters Welcome Here

Students show their stuff

Flight Risk?
Features

Flight Risk?

Nine years ago, and without explanation, graduate student Rahinah Ibrahim showed up on the U.S. governments no-fly list, which barred her from re-entering the country. What happens when personal rights and the war on terror collide?

by Sam Scott

Features

Truth Was Our Only Client

Richard Mosk was a young lawyer serving in the California Air National Guard when he was summoned to help sort out who killed JFK. In this first-person account, he describes his foray into Lee Harvey Oswald's life, and what he learned.

by Justice Richard M. Mosk

Make It Stop
Features

Make It Stop

Researchers are beginning to unravel the sources of chronic pain, and develop treatments for mysterious, maddening conditions.

by Kristin Sainani

What It Takes
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What It Takes

Last year, undergraduate admissions officers spent more than 10,000 hours evaluating nearly 39,000 applicants. How do they choose whom to accept when so many are so deserving?

by Ivan Maisel

Fifty Years of Harmony
Online Exclusives

Fifty Years of Harmony

Stanford's first a cappella group, the Mendicants, had no idea what they were starting.

by Sam Scott

"Dear Future Me"
Online Exclusives

"Dear Future Me"

The Class of '08 gets unexpected mail

by Sam Scott