Head of the Class

When the future chief justice of the United States arrived on campus in 1946, fresh from service in World War II, he had no particular plan. Then he met a professor whose scholarly specialty inspired a career in the law, and whose ideas shaped the views that would change American jurisprudence.

Leave the Lights On

Call it the campus that seldom sleeps. Whether it's baking bread in dorm kitchens or pounding the treadmill at Tresidder, something is usually going on in the wee hours. Join our reporter on a middle-of-the-night prowl around the Farm.

Just Cool It

A pair of Stanford scientists has found an answer to performance enhancement that has nothing to do with drugs. Their device to cool the body core not only may revolutionize sports, it could improve quality of life for medical patients, too.

Thrown a Curve

Battered by more than 20 years of kidney disease and cancer, Steven Skov Holt has sustained an optimistic vision about design that borrows from nature's "blobby" shapes. His ideas have helped mold a new way of making everyday objects.

Serving Justice

Our Heritage, Our Mission

And Camera Makes Three

Focus on the marriage

Letters to the Editor

The Newlymeds

Still Playing

Play together, stay together

Iran: The Young and the Restless

A new revolution

Century at Stanford

Orchestrating Change

Facing the music

Give Her Some Space

Bar Hopping

Pulling for Each Other

Cardinal Numbers

The Museum Shop

The Hundred Years Clan

Planet Cardinal

What You Don't Know About The Great Pyramid

No Beans, Please

Leave the gorp at home

• One Backpack, Many Menus

Digging Up Sound

Restoring the masters

Amazing Amazonia

The Iconoclast

Beyond Belief

Shelf Life

The Notes