December 12, 2012

Dec 12, 2012

Mission Impossible: One professor’ s search for something others said could not exist | P.W. Singer ’97 on modern warfare

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Features

A world in a grain of sand

Paul Steinhardt’s long, improbable search for a natural quasicrystal

Warfare under the radar

Peter W. Singer ’97 explains how we can be at war and hardly notice

President’s Page

President’s Page

The Arts Take Flight

The Alumni Weekly provides these pages to the president

Reunions Guide

From the Editor

Featured Authors

Featured Authors

Plissner '86 pens debut young adult novel

Featured Authors

Pettit '72 profiles New Mexican artists

Featured Authors

Landy *97 examines the function of fiction

History

From the Archives

Tiger of the Week

Tiger of the Week

Tiger of the Week: Kevin Westgarth '07

Tiger of the Week

Tiger of the Week: Teri Noel Towe '70

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