Full contents - Fall 2004:

• Getting Along in the Middle East
  I began my summer by volunteering on a beautiful kibbutz in the middle of the desert in Israel

  • Related story: West Jerusalem looks like a mall in the US that always feels like it will turn into a live-fire zone
    I'd been in Iraq for most of the last year and a half. I was in Lebanon before that, studying Beirut and writing for the Daily Star

• A Transforming Gift
  Steve Ross studied the ugliest building in Manhattan for years. He walked around it, drove past it, pondered it from his office window a few blocks away

• Molecular Motors
  The Nobel-Prize physicist Richard Feynman of the California Institute of Technology closed his visionary 1959 talk on the potential of nanotechnology

• Picturing Humanity
  Karen Kasmauski '75 never planned to be a photographer. She wanted to be an artist when she came to Michigan from Norfolk, Virginia

• Passing Recognition
  What would pro football be like today without its dynamic passers, quarterbacks such as Brett Favre, Peyton Manning and ex-Wolverine Tom Brady '00?

• A Master Shape-Shifter of the Literary World
  When he was 18 years old, Peter Ho Davies submitted his first work of fiction to a literary journal

  • Related story: A Bad Shepherd
    Towards the end the GI's at Nuremberg played basketball almost around the clock, it seemed

• 'This is not the icing—this IS the cake!'
  Every day she was in the School of Music's program just outside Florence, Italy, Kelly Bixby '05 felt "as if I were not only studying music but had actually stepped back in history."

  • Related story: Kelly Bixby '05 wrote about the Florence Music Program
    One evening I joined two friends and a family member at a famous Florentine restaurant called Il Latini

• A Landmark Career in Law
  John H. Pickering argued his very first case before the U.S. Supreme Court—a rare loss followed by many precedent-setting victories in the public interest

• American Ways Of Cooking and Eating
  "In 1876," Jan Longone says, "foreign visitors to the American Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia asked, `Have you no national dishes?'