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Beijing Olympics mark best-ever performance by Stanford athletes - Stanford athletes raked in 25 medals during this month?s Olympic Games, breaking a university record. The total haul by current and former members of the Cardinal roster included eight gold, 13 silver and four bronze medals....
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Nathaniel Gage, 'giant among educational researchers,' dead at 91 - Nathaniel "Nate" Lees Gage, a Stanford professor emeritus of education who has been called the "father of modern research on teaching," died Aug. 17 at Stanford Hospital. He was 91....
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Q & A: Freeman Spogli Institute's Gail Lapidus discusses conflict in Georgia - In an interview with 'Stanford Report', Gail Lapidus, a senior fellow emerita at Stanford's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, discussed the buildup to the crisis in Georgia, its toll on the region and the role of the United States....
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Biologists say individual actions are key to ensuring biodiversity, healthy future - Preserving a substantial amount of biodiversity is critical to a healthy future, but how best to do that has been a subject of ongoing debate. A multi-pronged approach is the only way humanity can pull it off, according to Stanford biologists Paul Ehrlich and Robert Pringle....
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Method could help fight drug-resistant diseases - Stanford researchers have developed a method to get around one of the most common forms of drug resistance. To do it, they took a tip from nature....
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Longtime Political Science Department staffer dead at 89 - A memorial Mass will be celebrated in Los Altos on Friday, Sept. 5, for Ann Elizabeth Rafferty, a longtime university employee who died Aug. 2, 2008, of chronic pulmonary occlusion. She was 89....
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Study shows hiring of dual-career academic couples is on the rise - He has a fancy-sounding title, but Robert Weisberg gives himself a blunt job description when explaining what he does as "special assistant to the provost for faculty recruitment and retention."...
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Using everyday language to teach science may help students learn, study finds - According to a recent study, students who learned the basic concepts of photosynthesis in "everyday English" before learning the scientific terms for the phenomenon fared much better on tests than students taught the traditional way....
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New child-care center in Escondido Village set to open Sept. 2 - When the first phase of a new campus child-care center opens for business Sept. 2, it will enroll as many as 100 children ranging in age from 8 weeks to 5 years....
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Adopt-a-Plant - Jim Jensen and Danielle DeGroot salvaged plants Aug. 9 from 655 and 651 Serra St. with the aim of reusing them at Sequoia YMCA in Redwood City. Fahmida Ahmed, right, manager of sustainability programs at Stanford, gave them a hand....
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Continuing Studies fall registration open - Stanford Continuing Studies celebrates its 20th anniversary this autumn with more than 100 courses, lectures, workshops and special programs. The courses?ranging from literature, politics and science to business, professional and personal development?are open to all members of the community. Most of the courses are taught by Stanford professors and instructors....
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New planning grants to fund research on freshwater issues - The Woods Institute for the Environment has awarded five faculty planning grants to develop long-term research programs at Stanford that help solve the world's urgent demands for freshwater....
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Power outage hits campus - A high-voltage PG&E power line shorted out Monday, triggering an electric outage across the Stanford campus....
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Nanotubes deliver high-potency punch to cancer tumors in mice - The problem with using a shotgun to kill a housefly is that even if you get the pest, you'll likely do a lot of damage to your home in the process. Hence the value of the more surgical flyswatter....
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Poll points to belief that energy conservation won?t be enough - With gas prices topping $4 a gallon and the prospect of record-high heating costs this winter, Americans say they're driving less and cutting their electricity use to save money and improve the environment....
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