What You Don’t Know About Stanford’s Anatomical Gift Program

The Global Positioning System changed navigation forever. Now GPS pioneer Brad Parkinson and his band of graduate students are harnessing the technology to track the precise location of almost anything.

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From sportscaster to CEO, from ranger to webmaster, we profile the coolest jobs at Stanford -- and the students who do them.

Provost and engineering professor John Hennessy spent 22 years teaching, researching and rising through the academic ranks. And, like every self-respecting computer scientist, he took a year's sabbatical to start a company. In September, he becomes the University's 10th president.

by Doug Swanson

Bemoaning the Age of Inquisitiveness

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The Farm's TV-writing mafia

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Inside a Silicon Valley singles convention

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Don't turn my crunchy co-op into Wilbur

by Sonya Schneider