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After 10 years and $250 million, the University closes the book on the Loma Prieta earthquake -- and considers what it learned from the "Pretty Big One."

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    Thinking Small

    The plan is ambitious: every freshman and sophomore should be able to take a seminar with senior faculty. That makes sense -- but previous programs have failed.

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    What's the Big Idea?

    The upstart inventor of Hotmail shrugs off his amazing success. In the Internet era, he says, what works for two people will click with millions.

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    On Top of the World

    He put Elvis on screen, produced Oscar-winning movies from Jaws to The Sting and is bringing Angela's Ashes to film. Still, David Brown's not as famous as his celebrity wife.

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    The Way We Were

    In a book with hundreds of photos, Susan Wels weaves a chronicle of Stanford from its earliest days to the boom times of the 1990s.