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All Right Now
A Farm-raised triumvirate leads soccer in the three nations that will host World Cup 2026.
Class Dismissed?
As for-profit companies seek high-profile university partners for their forays into online education, Stanford is pondering how involved it should be, how to do it right and what the trend means for the future of higher education.
by Nina Schuyler
Walking on Air
The first woman to inhabit the International Space Station, Susan Helms always has been a high achiever. Over the next few months the experiments she conducts will help bring space colonization within reach.
by Lisa Sonne
Notah Begay's Drive
It was a ridiculous notion: a poor Indian kid from a broken home reaching the exclusive ranks of professional golf. Not only has Begay made it to the PGA, but his winning attitude--on and off the course--has the mark of a champion.
by Kelli Anderson
Peace Work
Researcher Fred Luskin has applied his techniques for getting over grudges to a challenging set of subjects: the parents and siblings and others touched by decades of violence in Northern Ireland. His findings may tell us: is everything forgivable?
by Joan O'C. Hammilton
The Man Who Stopped Time
Do running horses fly? The man who proved they do in an ingenious test at the Farm--and invented stop-motion photography in the process--was a technical wizard, a murderous cuckold and a thorn in Leland Stanford's side.
by Mitchell Leslie
