SOUTHERN AFGHANISTAN (AP) — U.S. Marines established a foothold yesterday within striking distance of the Taliban stronghold of Kandahar, working through the chilly night to set up a base of operations in country for America’s war on terrorism.
Helicopters and transport aircraft bringing Marines and equipment came and went from the USS Peleliu in the northern [...]

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican condemned the first reported cloning of a human embryo, saying yesterday that promises of “sensational” cures from diseases can’t justify the step by scientists in the United States.
Reacting to the news that the scientists had cloned a six-cell embryo, the Vatican said that the event “moves us to restate [...]

At a special Sunday meeting, six ASSU undergraduate senators listened to juniors Monica Henestroza and Lolita Roibal of the Stanford Labor Action Committee discuss the University’s decision to subcontract 10 janitorial jobs at the Medical Center.
The meeting was meant to inform the Senate on the issue before the body voted Tuesday upon a resolution to [...]

No one ever said shopping in Palo Alto is easy on the wallet. But in an effort to alleviate the pain of paying Silicon Valley prices, the ASSU is revitalizing the Stanford Savers program, which will work with about 60 neighboring stores, restaurants and services to offer discounts to SUID-toting students.
ASSU Senate Chair Alex Shvartsman [...]

It all started more than a century ago, when a small copper box was hidden in the cornerstone of Building 160.
Jane Stanford, the University’s founder, buried a capsule that contained relics of her time on Nov. 2, 1898, during a dedication ceremony for the outer Quad.
The time capsule was soon forgotten — until last July, [...]

In response to the rising threat of bioterrorist attacks, the Medical Center is testing an early warning system for suspicious disease outbreaks. The system, called Biothreat Active Surveillance Integrated Information and Communication System, was developed by the Health Hero Network of Mountain View.
BASIICS transmits medical information about patients entering the emergency room to local health [...]

Yesterday, a panel from the National Bureau of Economic Research — including a Stanford economics professor — made it official: the United States economy is in a recession that began last March.
This news comes after recent analysis of the U.S. economy by the bureau’s Business Cycle Dating Committee. The committee is comprised of six professors [...]

In a rally yesterday in White Plaza, students and faculty expressed their concerns about the “Visa Entry Reform Act of 2001″ proposed by Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), urging the audience to take action against the legislation.
The bill would prohibit students in countries that the U.S. government has termed terrorist-supporting states from obtaining student visas. The [...]

The Managing Director of the State Department’s Visa Office recently announced that, due to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, it is placing special requirements on non-immigrant visa applications.
Third country nationals, in this case foreigners who are from neither Mexico nor Canada, will no longer be able to apply for their visas in those countries.
This temporary [...]

Bush’s cloning policy “immoral”
No easy battles exist in the war between the dignities of potential human life and threatened human life, but last week’s announcement by Advanced Cell Technologies that its scientists successfully cloned a human embryo show that it’s time for a truce. One need not go out on a limb to believe that [...]