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  Cancer center opens
  A cappella goes Hindi
  O’Connor at Commencement
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  Women’s hoops
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May/June 2004 cover

Totally On
Today’s students, weaned on technology, express both delight and disdain for the gadget-driven culture they inhabit. Are their lives better, or just better equipped? BY christine foster

 

‘I Can’t Think of Any Obstacles’
Battered by cystic fibrosis, she had her first surgery at age 7 and a lung transplant at 13. Although she was in and out of hospitals for all of her 21 years, Leslie Hotson didn’t let the struggle to live get in the way of having a life. BY Jocelyn Wiener

On the Waterfront
At the South Street Seaport Museum, Peter Neill collects and houses America’s nautical past and the origins of New York’s heritage. It’s the perfect job for a born storyteller. BY Ray Isle

The Originality of Species
Is Darwin’s theory of sexual selection large enough to explain ‘exceptional’ sexual behavior? Biologist Joan Roughgarden says no, and her new book suggests an outright abandonment of the fundamental tenet she says promotes bad science and social injustice. BY Bob Moser

  Bright Ideas What’s the word?  
  On the Job Keeping aliens out  
  Student Voice Race, dating and me  
  Letters to the Editor  
  1,000 Words  
  The dish on alumni near and far  
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