May/June 2001

Features

COVER STORY

Peace Work

Researcher Fred Luskin has applied his techniques for getting over grudges to a challenging set of subjects: the parents and siblings and others touched by decades of violence in Northern Ireland. His findings may tell us: is everything forgivable?

Notah Begay's Drive

It was a ridiculous notion: a poor Indian kid from a broken home reaching the exclusive ranks of professional golf. Not only has Begay made it to the PGA, but his winning attitude--on and off the course--has the mark of a champion.

Walking on Air

The first woman to inhabit the International Space Station, Susan Helms always has been a high achiever. Over the next few months the experiments she conducts will help bring space colonization within reach.

Class Dismissed?

As for-profit companies seek high-profile university partners for their forays into online education, Stanford is pondering how involved it should be, how to do it right and what the trend means for the future of higher education.

The Man Who Stopped Time

Do running horses fly? The man who proved they do in an ingenious test at the Farm--and invented stop-motion photography in the process--was a technical wizard, a murderous cuckold and a thorn in Leland Stanford's side.

Columns and Departments

PRESIDENT'S COLUMN

The Hard Work of Painful Choices

Making the Medical Center better

ON THE JOB

Their Chosen Field

With Jim and Heidi Kuhn; Farming in the Imperial Valley

BRIGHT IDEAS

Crafting a Different Future

Crafty women weave miracles

STUDENT VOICE

The Case for Motherhood

Pampers in her bookbag

BEING THERE

A Nice Place to Visit

A parent's weekend

END NOTE

Letting My People Go

Farewell, fictional friends

Farm Report

Digest

Light on Your Feet

Flashy shoes

Bad News, Bears

Cal capitulations?

A Hateful Story Hits Home

Making a Believer

News

SLAC

'The Experiment Works'

BaBar takes a wondrous baby step

HUMANITIES

Plan to Merge Language Departments Draws Fire

Parlez-vous Chinese?

Cardinal Numbers

Hoop dreams

CAMPUS SECURITY

Hail to the Retiring Chief

Marv Herrington comes clean

GENDER EQUITY

Plugging Leaks in the Pipeline

It's a leaky pipeline

LECTURE HALL

Asking the Tough Ethical Questions

Wrestling with bioethics

BIOLOGY

Pianos, Pinatas and Rat Brains--Oh, My!

A lab equipped with piano and piñata

TOP JOBS

SAA's New Chief

The Alumni Association's new president

INTERNSHIPS

Fun in the Sun--and in the Cubicle

Unconventional summer stints

HOOVER INSTITUTION

The Books Go Marching One by One

Scholarly books may get shelved

RESEARCH

Fishing for Information

Tag, you're it

Sports

MEN'S BASKETBALL

They Had a Shot, and Just About Made It

A fine season, after all

TENNIS

New Coach Adds Savvy to Team's Baseline Skill

New head coach: same old excellence

Shelf Life

AUTHOR, AUTHOR

Her Cup of Tea

An American geisha

REVIEW

A History of Hatred

100 years of 'ethnic cleansing'

EXCERPT

A Wriggly Secret

My sexy science project

Class Notes

Profiles

TIME CAPSULE

Coed Chants

Roble songs remembered

SPOTLIGHT: STEPHEN BAIRD, '66, MD '71

Sing a Song of Science

Pathological poet

WHATEVER HAPPENED TO . . . MARIAH BURTON NELSON, '78

Standing Tall for Women's Rights

Hoopster Maggie Burton Nelson

TURNING POINT: ALAN EZEKIEL, '89, MS '90

Heeding the Siren Call

Out of the cube, onto the street

SNAPSHOT: KARLETTA CHIEF, '98, MS '00

Preserving Her Culture

Navajo role model

Farewells

REMEMBERING PETER C. ALLEN, '36, 1915-2001

He Spoke for Stanford

Peter Allen, voice of Stanford