Features
Photo: Glenn Matsumura
When 74 years of Communist rule ended, archivist Charles Palm saw his chance. Here's how he brought 25 million pages of once-secret Soviet history to Stanford.
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Photo: Jim Spirakis
Rhymes with Harpoonist
With an eye for detail and a quirky sense of humor, cartoonist Hilary Price finds fodder in everyday life. Her comic strip, "Rhymes with Orange," runs in 100 newspapers.
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Photo: Jeffrey Titcomb
Truth and Consequences
Anthropologist David Stoll's exposé of a Nobel Peace Prize winner has set off a furor and dredged up old arguments from the campus culture wars of the 1980s.
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Photo: Amanda Lane
Poetic License
Vikram Seth was doing a PhD in economics when he got diverted by a writing fellowship -- and became a poet, translator, travel writer and best-selling novelist instead.
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Photo: Jason Grow
The History of Everyone and Everything
Genetic geographer Luca Cavalli-Sforza earned an international reputation tracing ancient human migrations. Now his plan to build a global DNA bank has led to charges of "biopiracy."
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Janet Woolley
'Lower the Gurney, This Is a Catch and Carry'
In a night on ambulance duty, a medical student learns that a minute lasts longer than he ever imagined -- and that in a struggle with death, stalemate can mean victory.
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You Knew Stanford Alumni Invented Google, But the Koosh Ball?
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Where to Find Inspiration? Maybe at Your Feet.
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Books, Music, Etc.
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