January/February 2009

COVER STORY
'At the Hands of the Radicals'
His home was attacked. His office was bombed. Forty years later, Richard Lyman reflects on a violent era that shook the campus.

View Finder
George Steinmetz takes aerial photography to new heights—by going lower and slower. BY KATHERINE SELIGMAN

The Human Whisperer
Whether practicing medicine or literature, Abraham Verghese teaches how to pay full attention at a patient’s bedside. BY SUSAN COHEN

Universal Pictures
Coming to a screen near you: the evolving cosmos, in real time. BY AMANDA CRAIG AND SCOTT SHACKELFORD