What Are the Costs?
The practice of implanting borrowed eggs into infertile women has produced thousands of dreams come true for childless families. But wealthy parents-to-be have complicated matters by seeking out trophy candidates and paying them huge sums. Ethicists and practitioners alike are quetsioning whether the price of eggs has gone too high.

Loud and Clear Frequently critcized for his activist approach, FCC chairman William Kennard wants to ensure that the communications revolution doesn't speed past poorer Americans. He has signaled a willingness to take on powerful corporate and government forces, but will they listen?

Photos to (Almost) Die For Sharks "the size of min-vans," seldom-seen species and an epic journey beneath the ice of Antarctica are part of the hazardous, breathtaking work of naturalist/photographer Norbert Wu. As he prepares what experts say will be a revolutionary underwater documentary, this Cousteau protege is influencing the way we see the sea.

In a Class By Themselves They never had prom dates, never missed the bus, didn't eat cafeteria food. They didn't even get diplomas. But these home-schooled students learned enough about themselves and the world to move to the top of Stanford's applicant pile.

True to His Word
One hundred years after his birth and more than 30 years after his death, Yvor Winters is remembered for his poetic passion, his knee-buckling teaching tactics and an impressive roster of literary progeny. A survey of the career of a man as enigmatic as he was influential. Plus… In Training with Live Ammo, a former student's memoir of the Winters experience, and Winters Symposium.

Digest

• An overdue reunion
• The Tree turns 25
• A misty glow
• What Simon says

Follow-Up Casey Martin isn't out of the woods yet

SPORTS

• Field Hockey Women hone a wicked passing game
• Basketball A star about to appear?
• Volleyball Faculty suit up for a day
• Sports Notebook

NEWS

• Executive Decisions Housing plan won't include golf course
• Sleep Research Treatments ahead for narcolepsy
• Visitors Welcoming Maxine Hong Kingston
• Education Crayons vs. keyboards
• Graduate Studies Writing for non-specialists
• Museum A good hair day
• Literature Reappraising the novel
• Research New lab for fuzzies
• Athletics Challenging NCAA rules
• Aging Educating policymakers
• MLA Program A master's for busy professionals
• Medicine Training physicians with a joystick
• Finances Teaching students to balance checkbooks

Author, Author From Russia's avant-garde, with love

Excerpt Coming of age at Stanford-in-Germany

Bestsellers

Book Blurbs

• Orphans of the Cold War: America and the Tibetan Stuggle for Survival, by John Kenneth Knaus, '44, MA '49
• Finding Your Religion: When the Faith You Grew Up With Has Lost Its Meaning, by Scotty McLennan

First Impressions Starting a new job…

President's Column

Who's Who

Letters to the Editor

On the Job with Kenya entrepreneur Martin Fisher

Cardinal Numbers

Bright Ideas If this company has its way, seeing the future won't be so hard

Student Voice A would-be doctor changes prescriptions

An Examined Life Longtime SAA president Bill Stone retires

Century at Stanford

Endnotes Who could predict the outcome of a matchup like this?

The Notes: Tidings from classmates near and far

Whatever Happened to . . . Charles Goodan, infamous Tree

Spotlight Bob Russell, science-minded theologian

Time Capsule Cal drops a bomb

Grad Notes

Obituaries

Remembering Dean Winbigler