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Stanford researchers say stem-cell study could unlock lifesaving cancer treatments and perhaps even wipe out genetic killers. But critics of the research say moral ambiguity surrounding therapeutic cloning should force science to slow down. The outcome of the debate will affect medicine for years.
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Davy Liu
Roommate Roulette
Among the many lessons of college, figuring out how to live with a total stranger is one of the toughest. Despite a national trend toward single rooms, Stanford has stuck to its policy of togetherness, often intentionally pairing roommates who have little in common. It’s funny how it works out.
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Glenn Matsumura
Diplomania
You’re smart and accomplished, right? That fancy degree on your office wall says so. Well, with graduation looming, here’s a test that will challenge what you know about diplomas.
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Elena Siebert
Presume Nothing
Social critic and author Stephen Carter isn’t interested in chummy orthodoxy. During a career of throwing curveballs to his colleagues, Carter has developed a reputation for thinking straight, demanding facts and keeping the faith.
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Courtesy San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library
The City's Secret Scourge
It crept slowly out of a fetid slum overrun with rats, but before officials could contain it—and crack a cover-up that went all the way to the governor’s office—an outbreak of bubonic plague left 1900s San Francisco reeling and racially divided.
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