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Jason Grow

With a bold new addition and some badly needed seismic repairs, the Stanford Museum reopens as a visual arts complex fortified for a new millennium.

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    What's Next?

    He’s a prize-winning chemist, entrepreneur, novelist and, now, playwright. The “father of the Pill” can’t stop.

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    Trial by Fire

    Caroline Paul set out to write an exposé of sexism in the San Francisco Fire Department. She ended up as a firefighter.

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    What I Learned From Joel

    Back in 1979, Joel Dickholtz wrote a Daily column explaining why he was dropping out. It changed at least one reader’s life.