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Taking It to the Streets
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Taking It to the Streets

As a law student, Cory Booker, ’91, MA ’92, wanted to help Newark, N.J.’s inner-city residents fight for their rights. No one expected him to move into the neighborhood.

by Marc Peyser

Once More, With Feeling
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Once More, With Feeling

These robotic hands can actually feel what they touch -- and they're smart enough to learn from the experience.

by Marina Chicurel

Radical Swell
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Radical Swell

by Theresa Donovan Brown

Into the Outback
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Into the Outback

Fresh out of Stanford, Herbert Hoover went Down Under in 1897 to scout Australia's goldfields. When he left the following yera, he was a rich man -- and a local legend

by William Coughlin