Life in the Colonies
They're tiny, dimwitted and utterly unmanaged, so how do ants accomplish
so much? After two decades of deep digging, researcher Deborah Gordon
may be close to understanding ants' collective intelligence and what we
can learn from it.
Broken
Promise
Despite the poverty and neglect of his boyhood, one Salvadoran street
child aimed high. But as a young ethnographer learned, 11-year-old Noe
never had a chance.
Angel Island:
Breaking the Silence
Detained at a desolate outpost in San Francisco Bay, Chinese immigrants
in the early 20th century faced humiliation and despair in an America
eager to keep them out. Thanks to a Stanford graduate, their stories are
finally being told.
Corps Curriculum
Thirty-two years ago, ROTC left campus in a firestorm of antiwar sentiment.
Today, the program still attracts students from the Farm, who commute
to nearby campuses to participate. Are they getting enough credit?
Life
of the Party
A confidante and friend to leading members of the left's intelligentsia
in the 1920s, later a stalwart presence at the Hoover Institution, Ella
Wolfe was usually found behind the scenes. Now, her personal papers reveal
the remarkable woman few people really knew.
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