May/June 1997

Features

The Making of Project M

They called it the Monster: a two-mile linear accelerator designed to study the basic building blocks of matter. Forty years later, physicist Wolfgang Panofsky recalls the drama surrounding the creation of SLAC.

Where the Wild Things Are

From red foxes to redwoods, take a virtual tour of the amazing array of plants and animals that live on campus.

Crossing to Motherhood

Should I have a baby? A writer wrestles with her decision--and then with the reality of infertility.

Pioneer In the Sky

Adventurer Steve Fosset has a lofty ambition: to circle the globe by balloon. He'll try again next winter.

The Millionaires Next Door

They started in a garage, of course. And the six young founders of Silicon Valley's Excite Inc. remain regular guys.

Leland's Journal

ON THE JOB WITH GAIL GUTIERREZ MCDERMID

Escape Through Art

E-MAIL FROM CHECHNYA

A Well of Pain and Bitterness

HIGHLY UNSCIENTIFIC POLL(TM)

A Dorm of One's Own

VIRTUAL STANFORD

The.Web.We.Weave

STUDENT VOICE

My Mid-Course Correction

BOOK REVIEW

The Stegner Story

BOOK REVIEW

The New California

The Short Story Faces Long Odds

Four new books by Stanford authors.

Departments

FIRST IMPRESSIONS

The Vision Thing

SAA CORNER

Family Odysseys

END NOTES

My So-Called Job

Class Notes

Profiles

CLASS NOTABLE: SHELDON BREINER, '59, MS '62, PHD '67

No Stone Unturned

CLASS NOTABLE: DONNA HANOVER, '72

She'll Take Manhattan

Farewells

REMEMBERING DWIGHT LOCKE WILBUR, '23, 1903-1997

A Favorite Son