November/December 2013

Features

What It Takes

Last year, undergraduate admissions officers spent more than 10,000 hours evaluating nearly 39,000 applicants. How do they choose whom to accept when so many are so deserving?

Make It Stop

Researchers are beginning to unravel the sources of chronic pain, and develop treatments for mysterious, maddening conditions.

'Truth Was Our Only Client'

Richard Mosk was a young lawyer serving in the California Air National Guard when he was summoned to help sort out who killed JFK. In this first-person account, he describes his foray into Lee Harvey Oswald's life, and what he learned.

Flight Risk?

Nine years ago, and without explanation, graduate student Rahinah Ibrahim showed up on the U.S. governments no-fly list, which barred her from re-entering the country. What happens when personal rights and the war on terror collide?

Spotlight

SPOTLIGHT

Hold the Salt

High on low-sodium

EXAMINED LIFE

Aural Hygienist

Remembering Ray Dolby

Farm Report

NOW SHOWING

Sunday Painters Welcome Here

Students show their stuff

Start-ups Get New Boost

University opens investment fund

HYPOTHESIS

To Catch a Shooting Star

How dangerous are meteoroids?

RESTORATION

Facelift for an Octogenarian

An art deco makeover

INSIGHTS

What Can Past Wars Teach Us?

Reviving military history

SHOWCASE

When In Rome

Shooting the shooters

SOAPBOX

The Bedbugs Are Electronic

America, are you listening?

Two Nobels

Stanford wins big

FOOTBALL

The Cardinal's Comeback Kids

The Cardinal's six-pack

Departments

FIRST IMPRESSIONS

No Midlife Crisis Here

Celebrating 40 years

PRESIDENT'S COLUMN

A Cauldron of Innovation

Innovation incubator

1,000 WORDS

Passing Time

END NOTE

A Lesson in Sportsmanship

What I learned flying kites

Class Notes

Farewells

U.N. Officer and Supporter of Tibetan People

Ruth Elizabeth Sutherlin Finney Hayward, '61

Former Head of Selective Service

Curtis W. Tarr, '48, PhD '62

Fiscal Steward

Herbert Monroe Allison Jr., MBA '71

Online Exclusives

CARDINAL CONVERSATIONS

Trapped in North Korea

Expert on North Korea

Commemorative Football Covers

Four new Stanford magazine covers celebrate four bowl appearances.