The $60 Million Question A
donor's decision to withhold part of his pledge payment puts the ambitious
Bio-X program on hold—yet his reasons have nothing to do with Stanford.
Enough
Already!
In a career-driven culture cluttered with "stuff," millions
of Americans are looking for solace in simplicity.
It's All About Joel
Time magazine's most irreverent writer has eaten fried chicken
with a porn star and become Robert Goulet's pen pal. But his favorite
subject? Himself. Plus: Steinian
Snippets On journalism, Judaism and Jersey
In the Wake of War
A newsman reflects on the deadliest conflict in history.
Plus: A World Gone Mad How
word of Pearl Harbor hit the Farm.
Breakout Performance An
audacious POW rescue in the Philippines.
Special Report/September 11
Stanford remembers the victims, binds its wounds and tries to make sense
of it all.
Getting Better
For six summers, students and faculty physicians have been trekking into
Papua New Guinea to set up makeshift clinics and train local medics. The
villagers greet them with songs praising Stanford—in pidgin. Plus:
A Primal Place Exotic
species, ancient ways
'You Have to Get Hardened'
A student's expedition journal
Going
Wild
Neurobiologist Robert Sapolsky joined a troop of baboons and got in touch
with his inner primate.
Plus: Excerpt
'I learned to dart baboons in Manhattan'
Jungle Wisdom What
biology tells us about stress
Being
There
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