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The Voyagers
They've walked in space, piloted the shuttle and fixed the Hubble. For Stanford-trained astronauts, the sky is not the limit.
Plus: Sally Ride's breakthrough, a teacher in space and a complete list of Stanford alums who've ventured into microgravity.

Is This My Baby?
In the winning entry from our first fiction contest for alumni, a woman confronts the connection between love, sex and motherhood
Plus: Read the second- and third-place winners available only online

Let's Make a Deal
Just a mile from campus, the venture capitalists of Sand Hill Road decide which business ideas will live -- and which will die.

A Warrior in Washington
With Beltway savvy and Cheyenne soul, Rick West is leading the charge for the Smithsonian's museum of the American Indian.
Plus: Those Who Came Before For thousands of years, the Muwekma-Ohlone Indians called the Stanford campus home.

Fan or Fanatic
A man travels more than 100,000 miles to see a thousand Stanford athletic games -- and asks himself: Is it ardor or excess?



 

The Grisly Gourmet
Thriller writer Diane Mott Davidson mixes mystery, murder and munchies.

Building a Better Book
A carpenter applies do-it-yourself principles to literature and micropublishing.

Stanford Bookstore Best-Sellers

Book Blurbs
Four new books by Stanford authors:

Joy of Reading: One Family's Fun-Filled Guide to Reading Success, by Debbie Duncan, '76

Ghost of War: The Sinking of the Awa Maru and Japanese-American Relations, by Roger Dingman, '60

All We know of Heaven: A love Story, by Anna Tuttle Villegas, '74

Women in Mathematics: The Addition of Difference, by Claudia Henrion, '80



 

First Impressions
Our fiction contest drew 140 entries -- and a winning story on a subject that just won't go away.

Letters to the Editor
Comments, congrats and catcalls from you. Zap us a letter while you're here.

Student Voice
A 5-year-old provides an unforgettable lesson in how to teach science.

Interns on the Potomac
The Capital campus celebrates 10 years of training would-be Washington wonks.

Cardinal Numbers

A Day at the Races
On the job with Bob Hess, a real-life horse whisperer.

What a Wife's Worth
A campus economist becomes a leading voice on executive divorce.

Leaning Right
A national poll shows freshmen are growing apathetic. We sampled campus opinion.

Alums at the Ready
Four graduates return to the Farm as University trustees.

Endnotes
Television's Politically Incorrect is not the place to correct your political mistakes.



 

Alumni Tidings from Around the World

Class Notable:
Carolyn Tanner Irish, '62

Class Notable:
Anthony J. Smith, '84

Obituaries

Remembering:
Don E. Fehrenbacher, 1920-1997



Unwrapping the Humanities Artist Christo, authors Umberto Eco and Isabel Allende, critic Harold Bloom -- they're all coming to campus to discuss literature and the arts.

Everything Old Is New Again With people living longer than ever, it's time to explode the myth that old age is about dementia, poverty and loneliness.

A Marriage Made in Medicine After a rocky courtship, Stanford and UCSF medical centers merge.

. . . and more in the Stanford News Service's section.