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Who Wants to be a Millionaire?
Features

Who Wants to be a Millionaire?

Gone are the fat paychecks and dreams of early retirement, but so are the 80-hour work weeks. In the aftermath of the latest boom-to-bust cycle, some alumni learned that getting ahead wasn't worth leaving everything else behind.

by Ann Marsh

This Is the Side of the Road
Features

This Is the Side of the Road

Our annual fiction-contest winner features a young traveler teetering on the edge as her friend and companion slips away.

by Zo Ida Bradbury

The Company She Keeps
Features

The Company She Keeps

Carey Perloff rebuilt San Francisco's Geary Theater and re-energized an actor's conservatory. Ten years after she began this dramatic turnaround, gutsy artistic choices and an innovative style are again bringing down the house.

by Diane Rogers

Our Town
Features

Our Town

Is Palo Alto a college town? Was it ever? Take a jaunt down University Avenue, past and present, and a look at students' ties to the town Leland Stanford built.

by Mark Simon

Other People's Lives
Columns and Departments

Other People's Lives

Whose life is this?

by Lain Chroust Ehmann

What a Trip
Columns and Departments

What a Trip

Ken Kesey's wild ride

by Joshua Fried

Man on the Street
Columns and Departments

Man on the Street

David Brancaccio, Marketplace's streetwise host

by Raymond Hardie

A Gracious People, Living with Terror
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A Gracious People, Living with Terror

Terror and tenacity on the other side of the world

by Robert L. Strauss