Features
Photo: Jason Grow
For an elite group of students, the much-hyped world of Silicon Valley is hardly theoretical. They're getting hands-on exposure to start-ups before they even finish college.
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Dan Vaccarino
Divided They Stand
A messy academic scuffle drove the Stanford anthropology department to split in two. The story behind the unusual breakup reflects a widening schism in the field.
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Photo: Glenn Matsumura
First, Take 14,000 Chicken Breasts
No longer content to merely feed 3,800 students 19 times a week, University Dining Services wants to reinvent itself as a restauranteur. The result? Hello artichokes, good-bye glop.
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Richard Downs
Falling Apart
He was a Marshall scholar, a college president and, finally, a top Stanford administrator. But mental illness changed everything. A victim of depression remembers his breakdown.
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Photo: Max Hirshfeld
Into Africa
She's young, she's impatient, she's blunt. Susan Rice is a different kind of diplomat.
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Courtesy Stanford Archives
Was It Murder?
In a case that gripped the nation, David Lamson was charged with killing his wife in their campus home. Despite four trials and intense media coverage, the 1933 death remains a mystery.
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How Elephants Establish Who Is in Charge
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Trustee Extraordinaire
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Yurts Become Pop-Up Science Labs
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The Audition Tape that Could
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Dispatch from Colombia: Nick Casey
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