Hat Trick

Scientific melting pot

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

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

Here's to that most essential collegiate accessory, the baseball cap, and a few devoted owners whose cherished headwear goes way over the top.

by Kevin Cool

After 16 years of living in an all-frosh dorm, Linda Paulson still marvels at the peculiar rhythms and revelations of student life. This longtime resident fellow ruminates on freshmen's relationship to Proust, the rebellions they foment late at night and the 3 a.m. knock on the door.

by Linda Paulson

While parents wait and hope, doctors at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital perform delicate operations on the world's smallest humans, seriously ill infants as much as four months premature. The success of their efforts has pushed neonatal medicine into a new frontier.

by Christopher Vaughan

Unfriendly skies

by Robert L. Strauss

Reservation doctor

by Mitchell Leslie

A vacation in ruins

by Tom Nugent

by Karen Bartholomew