Thinking Small The plan is ambitious: every freshman and sophomore should be able to take a seminar with senior faculty. That makes sense -- but previous programs have failed.

And You Thought Librarians Were Dull CEO, electonic publisher, coffee-bar aficionado: Michael Keller, master of the information universe, proves that you can't judge a book by its cover.

What's the Big Idea? The upstart inventor of Hotmail shrugs off his amazing success. In the Internet era, he says, what works for two people will click with millions.

All Right Now After 10 years and $250 million, the University closes the book on the Loma Prieta earthquake -- and considers what it learned from the "Pretty Big One." Plus: Secrets of the San Andreas What's really going on down there? Come to Parkfield, Calif., where scientists want to drill a hole 2 1/2 miles into the ground.

On Top of the World He put Elvis on screen, produced Oscar-winning movies from Jaws to The Sting and is bringing Angela's Ashes to film. Still, David Brown's not as famous as his celebrity wife.

The Way We Were In a book with hundreds of photos, Susan Wels weaves a chronicle of Stanford from its earliest days to the boom times of the 1990s.

Digest

• 'Hey, Can We Write You a Haiku?'
• How a 50th Reunion Led to a New Union
• 'Just One Question, Where Do I Clip the Mike?'
• A Song in His Heart
• At Least the Stamp Only Cost 15 Cents
• For Deadheads, One More Reason to be Grateful

Follow-Up Ten Cities, 858 Pages, One Happy Historian

SPORTS

• Football A Summer Start on the Fall Campaign
• Volleyball The Ace from Salt Lake
• Sports Notebook
• Outlook The Year in Preview

Golfer JayJean Ro

NEWS

• Medicine Rethinking a Troubled Hospital Merger
• Distance Learning For Professionals, Stanford Courses on the Web
• Engineering Moving to a Bigger 'Sandbox'
• Head of the Class
• Architecture A Hidden Campus Gem Restored
• Town-Gown Phase One: Getting the Neighbors' Okay
• Freshmen Here They Come
• Inquiring Minds
• Hoover Institution Newt's New Platform
• Class of 2017, Down on the Farm A Pint-Sized Stanford Barn
• Faculty A 50-Year Feat
• Campus Notebook
• Speakers' Corner
• Aerospace 'Stanford, We Have Liftoff'
• Top Jobs A Tale of Two Deans
• Syllabi
• Facilities A 6-Million-Gallon Insurance Policy
• Essentials What's In My Bookbag?
• Extra Credit Summer Study Goes Abroad

Author, Author A journeyman playwright jazzes up Broadway

Review Sick behavior gets a new name

Bestsellers

Preface A reading group tries writing

Book Blurbs

• The Monterey Bay Shoreline Guide, by Jerry Emory, '79
• The Flower in the Skull, by Kathleen Alcalá, '76
• How to Raise Kids Without Going Broke, by Peter Finch, '82, and Delia Marshall
• World's Fairs and the End of Progress: An Insider's View, by Alfred Heller, '50

First Impressions
Campus Chic

President's Column

Who's Who

Letters to the Editor

1,000 Words

On the Job with Ken Prewitt
Knocking heads over the national head count

Cardinal Numbers

Virtual Stanford Four Law School classmates rule the Silicon Valley legal biz

SAA Corner Free e-mail, career networking and chat -- all on the expanded website

Student Voice A peer health counselor in the trenches

Endnotes A modest bedtime proposal

The Notes: Tidings from classmates near and far

Grad Notes

Whatever Happened to . . . Basketball star George A. Selleck uses sports to teach life lessons

Spotlight: Bhutan voyagers Russ and Blyth Carpenter

Turning Points Bridget Hylak says good-bye to her son

Snapshot The Time of their lives

Obituaries

Remembering Nobelist Arthur Schawlow