The Parent Trap Perplexed by the advice of child-rearing extremists, a young father discovers Stanford psychologist William Damon, a guru of "authoritative parenting." Plus: 'Kids Need Moral Absolutes' Television, spanking, religion: a conversation with William Damon It Takes a Village . . . And a Charter Whole communities are coming together to raise their kids.

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. Plus: Bert Hoover, Love Poet? He may or may not be the author, but in today's outback, these verses are still good for business.

A December to Remember Yes, they played (and lost) a football game, but for Stanford's Rose Bowl team, that was only part of the story. One Cardinal player shares his diary.

Radical Swell In the winning entry from this year's fiction contest, a pregnant, power-lunching stock analyst finds herself dealing with life and death on one of the biggest surf days of the year. Plus: The second- and third-place entries, only online.

Taking It to the Streets As a law student, Cory Booker wanted to help Newark, N.J.'s inner-city residents fight for their rights. No one expected him to move into the neighborhood.

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

Digest

• Long-Distance Fans
• Picking Up Where Dad Left Off
• Doogie Bowser's Rounds
• When It Comes to Brownies, Mother Knows Best
• From the Locker Room to the Boardroom
• Now Online: Whodunits, Wild West Yarns and Romances

Follow-Up Thanks to Big Blue, a $20 Million Payday

SPORTS

• Basketball The Collins twins step up
• Softball Jessica Mendoza plays longball
• Sports Notebook

NEWS

• Think Tanks For Business Students, a New Focus on E-Commerce
• International Studies On Chinese Spying, They Beg to Differ
• Amenities Midnight? Time to Study
• Head of the Class
• Biotechnology A New Light on Cancer
• Top Jobs A Dip in the Presidential Pool
• Residences The Dean Who Came to Dinner
• Inquiring Minds
• History Keeper of the Dream
• Top Jobs A Dean's New Calling
• Campus Notebook
• Speakers' Corner
• Performing Arts From Canada, With Attitude
• Trademarks Cashing in on 'Stanford'? Not So Fast
• Bookmarks
• Space Science Awaiting a Message From Mars
• Essentials What's In My Bookbag?
• Health Research Open Wide and Say 'Ick'

Review The remarkable women who covered World War II

Author, Author Mary Jarrell writes of life with her husband, Randall

Excerpt A peek behind higher education's ivory curtain

Bestsellers

Book Blurbs

• Naked Pueblo, by Mark Jude Poirier, MA '92
• The Angelic Darkness, by Richard Zimler, MA '82
• The Work of Writing: Literature and Social Change in Britain, 1700-1830, by Clifford Siskin, '72
• American Compact: James Madison and the Problem of Founding, by Gary Rosen, '88

First Impressions Graduating Stanford -- Again

President's Column

Who's Who

Letters to the Editor

1,000 Words

On the Job with Rob Weisbach

Cardinal Numbers

Student Voice Don't turn my crunchy co-op into Wilbur

Being There Inside a Silicon Valley singles convention

Century at Stanford

Roundup The Farm's TV-writing mafia

Endnotes Bemoaning the Age of Inquisitiveness

The Notes: Tidings from classmates near and far

Snapshot At 98, this astronomer is still a star

Spotlight A Hawaiian doctor goes back to his roots

Time Capsule An experiment in squirrel hygiene

Spotlight Katherine Petrie oversees TV moviemaking

Grad Notes

Obituaries

Remembering Campus business manager Alf Brandin