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COVER STORY
Clued
In
Call it geek heaven. Or is it hell? The Game, a semiannual 24-plus-hour
quest to unlock a seemingly impenetrable network of clues, has become a Stanford
tradition for students and alumni alike. Winning requires gadgets, tactics
and a ridiculous amount of cryptography. And the winners get—nothing? BY
marisa
milanese
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Telling Tales Out
of School
Retired from teaching but vibrant as ever, Diane Middlebrook is working on the
next chapter of her life, as full-time biographer. Her latest project is characteristically
adventurous: chronicling the troubled marriage of poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia
Plath. It’s a subject as interesting as Middlebrook herself. BY
cynthia haven
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The Search for Peter
Starr
Pete Starr lived up to his name. A prominent San Francisco lawyer, he was one
of the nation’s foremost mountaineers and conservationists
in the early 1930s. Then he disappeared on a solo climbing trip to the Sierra.
By the time searchers found him, all of California knew his story. BY
william
Alsup
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Masters of Deception?
The works of Early Renaissance painters such as Jan van Eyck have enthralled
viewers for centuries with their uncanny realism and exquisite detail. Was it
sheer talent, or did they secretly rely on projection devices? A Stanford physicist
takes a stand. BY
marguerite Rigoglioso
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