November/December 2015

Features

The Big Game Disaster of 1900

With no seats available at the Big Game in 1900, hundreds of fans climbed onto a nearby rooftop to watch. Twenty minutes after kickoff, tragedy struck.

Seeds of Promise

A former Marine commander, profoundly changed by his experience in Iraq, has launched an effort to end extreme poverty and diminish the recruiting appeal of terrorists. Will it work?

Danger Ahead

New tools that enable manipulating DNA herald potential therapies but also pose troubling ethical quandaries. As science speeds forward, voices at Stanford are among those weighing in.

Farm Report

A Guy Thing

Men, deconstructed

Songs. Bond Songs.

The music of 007

Planning for the Planet

What now, for climate change?

CHANGING COURSE

Poli-Sci Thinks Big

PR for poli-sci

TROVE

Gutenberg's Galaxy

Library acquires Renaissance prints

How to Disagree With All Due Respect

The OpenXchange initiative

BREAKTHROUGHS, BRIEFLY

Mind 'Reading'

BREAKTHROUGHS, BRIEFLY

Good Behavior Cuts Cost

Meet 51 Eridani b

We found a planet!

Defining Moment

He scored with Team USA

He Made It

That's a kick

Departments

FIRST IMPRESSIONS

Oh, the People I've Known

PRESIDENT'S COLUMN

How Far We've Come

Marking 125 years

SHELF LIFE

Books, Music & Film

CONSIDER THIS

Artifacts of Conscience

A prankster comes clean

SPOTLIGHT

Fungus Among Us

A truffle evangelist

END NOTE

One Lucky Mistake

Serendipity strikes

Class Notes

Farewells

Where Law and Art Meet

John Henry Merryman

Foreign Policy Scholar

John David Steinbruner, '63

Musical, Medical Centenarian

Ephraim Engleman, '33

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