September/October 2010

Features

COVER STORY

Fair Enough?

Research shows being attractive helps in all sorts of ways, including getting a job. What does that mean for the plain person vying for the same position?

Gray Matters

During a pathbreaking career in business, A. Barry Rand grew accustomed to beating the odds. His next big hurdle: mobilizing a national movement to improve the lives of aging people.

A Camera with a Brain

Imagine a camera that could learn how to take better pictures. Marc Levoy has developed one, and it may represent the next revolution in photography.

Departments

FIRST IMPRESSIONS

This Could Get Ugly

The ugly truth

PRESIDENT'S COLUMN

Public Service--a Stanford Tradition

Difference makers

1,000 WORDS

Light Fantastic

EXAMINED LIFE

A Man of the West

Sunset publisher Bill Lane, '42

END NOTE

Room with a Rue

When in France . . .

Red All Over

Farm Report

Planet Cardinal

DISPATCHES

News from Another Side

Reporting for Al Jazeera, Casey Kauffman

ON THE JOB

Can He Awaken the Echoes?

Turning things around in South Bend

CALLINGS

In the Belly of the Boat

A famous fireboat's unlikely engineer

Showcase

Masculine Mystique

A playwright plumbs men's lives

Lines in the Sand

Sculpture beach

Class Notes

Profiles

TIME CAPSULE: DAN DEVOR, '51, MA '56

Happy Hours

SPOTLIGHT: JOAN GREEN, '63

Dancing Through Life

SPOTLIGHT: JESSICA DILULLO HERRIN, '94

Some Jewelry With That Party?

POSTCARD FROM PRAGUE: GWEN AMBLER, '03

The World Disc

SPOTLIGHT: REGINALD GIBBONS, MA '71, PHD '74

The Poet of 'The El'

Farewells

O.R. Champion

Ellis Cohen

Sitcom Creator

Martin Paul Cohan

Elemental Explorer

Ervin Kenneth Hulet

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