Getting Better

For six summers, students and faculty physicians have been trekking into Papua New Guinea to set up makeshift clinics and train local medics. The villagers greet them with songs praising Stanford—in pidgin.

• A Primal Place
• 'You Have to Get Hardened'

Everything Looks Different Now

Stanford remembers the victims, binds its wounds and tries to make sense of it all.

• Faculty Voices
• Touched by Tragedy
• In Memoriam

The $60 Million Question

A donor's decision to withhold part of his pledge payment puts the ambitious Bio-X program on hold—yet his reasons have nothing to do with Stanford.

It's All About Joel

Time magazine's most irreverent writer has eaten fried chicken with a porn star and become Robert Goulet's pen pal. But his favorite subject? Himself.

• Steinian Snippets

In the Wake of the War

A newsman reflects on the deadliest conflict in history.

• A World Gone Mad
• Breakout Performance

Enough Already

In a career-driven culture cluttered with "stuff," millions of Americans are looking for solace in simplicity.

Going Wild

Neurobiologist Robert Sapolsky joined a troop of baboons and got in touch with his inner primate.

• He Shoots, He Scores
• Jungle Wisdom

What Matters Most When Things Go Bad

When things go bad

'An Influence on Behalf of Humanity'

Preparing the next generation for leadership

Our Contributors

Letters to the Editor

Banding Together

The Actor and the Monk

With Alkuin Schachenmayr; a day in the life of a Cistercian monk

A Product of Their Imagination

Smart-talking toys even a mother can love

Making a Comeback

A fallen star struggles back from Skid Row

Century at Stanford

Inertia Is the Enemy

In the manic 20s, inertia is the enemy

A Book for All Ages

A timely history

The Family Tree

Naughty pine

Power to Burn

Shiny cars

An Old Story Comes into Sharper Focus

Stolen memories

Bringing Another Paris to Light

For African-Americans, a French connection

• Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite

Climbing Hollywood's Ladder

Divine Secrets of a fledgling producer

Pick of the Flicks

Bud Lesser's picks from the Golden Years

A Black Sheep Joins the Fold

Reviving Robinson Jeffers

• Salmon Fishing

Weirdness Works Wonders

The Family Plot

A rancher fights for her land

Shelf Life

New books by Stanford authors

The Notes