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An Economist Gets the Call

A call from Sweden

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Proving Einstein Right-or Wrong

Einstein: right or wrong?

Going Wild
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Going Wild

Neurobiologist Robert Sapolsky joined a troop of baboons and got in touch with his inner primate.

by Christopher Vaughan

Enough Already
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Enough Already

In a career-driven culture cluttered with "stuff," millions of Americans are looking for solace in simplicity.

by Nina Schuyler

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In the Wake of the War

A newsman reflects on the deadliest conflict in history.

by Frank Tremaine

It's All About Joel
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It's All About Joel

Time magazine's most irreverent writer has eaten fried chicken with a porn star and become Robert Goulet's pen pal. But his favorite subject? Himself.

by Jesse Oxfeld

The $60 Million Question
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The $60 Million Question

A donor's decision to withhold part of his pledge payment puts the ambitious Bio-X program on hold yet his reasons have nothing to do with Stanford.

by Kevin Cool

Everything Looks Different Now
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Everything Looks Different Now

Stanford remembers the victims, binds its wounds and tries to make sense of it all.

Getting Better
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Getting Better

For six summers, students and faculty physicians have been trekking into Papua New Guinea to set up makeshift clinics and train local medics. The villagers greet them with songs praising Stanford in pidgin.

by Uma Sanghvi