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NOVEMBER / DECEMBER 2004
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  Grad student residences
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  Bouncing forward
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National Museum of the American Indian
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  Music Singing the blues
  Writers Earth's advocates
  Drama Embedded, on Iraq
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Net Assets
Buoyed by a federal grant to develop digital research tools, Stanford's computer science department turned its graduate students loose on an intriguing problem-solving exercise. Ten years later, their work has produced virtually every significant Internet search innovation and spawned the world's most popular librarian, Google. BY richard brandt

 

Betting the Ranch
On a sprawling Montana spread, Roger and Cindy Lang hope to make ranching and sound environmental practice synonymous. BY paul rogers

  • A Place to Dig
    Stanford anthropology majors come to Sun Ranch. BY paul rogers

Bound by Convention
Two years before Abu Ghraib sparked outrage, Army interrogators in Afghanistan were honing new methods for questioning prisoners. Alumnus Greg Miller got an inside view of how they worked and gave painstaking attention to ethical dilemmas. BY Greg miller

Regarding Ernest Johnson
Forgotten for almost a century, Stanford's first African-American student has had his legacy restored. And the alumnus who honored him has gained back a piece of his past. BY Jocelyn wiener

  Student Voice Fretting over terror  
  Asked & Answered A Brown retrospective  
  Bright Ideas Got tickets?  
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Cindy Lang
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