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Smoking Out an Industry's Tricks

How tobacco wooed us

Lost Marbles Finally Replaced
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Lost Marbles Finally Replaced

Cast in stone, again

by Ryan Eshoff

A Step Backward for Racial Integration in Schools
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A Step Backward for Racial Integration in Schools

Integration takes a hit

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Know They Can Dance

Gotta dance

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Data Driven

A numbers game

by Benjy Mercer-Golden

What's to Be Done After Newtown?
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What's to Be Done After Newtown?

Would gun control prevent another Newtown?

Nature Nurtured
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Nature Nurtured

Geneticist Virginia Walbot, '67, helped pioneer a path for women scientists decades ago. Today, her research is unlocking important mysteries about how plants develop.

by Krisin Sainani

Seeing at the Speed of Sound
Features

Seeing at the Speed of Sound

Deaf since birth, master's student Rachel Kolb, '12 describes her lifelong struggle to communicate with hearing people by reading their lips.

by Rachel Kolb

Can I Get Some Privacy?
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Can I Get Some Privacy?

The pervasive collection, analysis and sale of personal data mined from Internet sites raises troubling privacy questions. Scholars at Stanford are helping lead efforts for more transparency and stricter controls.

by Brian Eule