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Professor Happiness

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Daniel Gilbert *85 explains why we seek satisfaction in all the wrong places

Homer, Hobbes, and hope

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Steve Fallon ’76 teaches the classics to homeless people, who understand the struggles central to the world’s great books.

Worriers and Optimists

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Princeton scientists combine technical expertise and policy savvy to help prevent nuclear disaster

Issue in doubt

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After 65 years, a Princeton family has guarded hope that a loved one’s remains might come home

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Marking time

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Combining history and archaeology, these Princeton scholars reconstruct daily life in the fields of Turkey

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Dream Builders

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Thing writing your senior thesis was tough? Try creating a clinic or school - abroad - at the same time

The Brutus of the conspiracy

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Woodrow Wilson and John Grier Hibben each won Princeton’s presidency, but a bitter dispute over the University’s future destroyed their friendship

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Rethinking Reagan

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Liberal historian Sean Wilentz still disagrees with the conservative president, but gives credit where it’s due

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Taking root

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Princeton's Center for African American Studies is giving a big boost

Bearing Witness

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On a journey to the Arctic, alumni get a firsthand look at climate change

Going Solo

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Choosing his own path, David Carpenter ’08 hopes to bring greater luster to the humble viola

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