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A student lounged inside the Bio Tour’s big blue 1990s school bus Monday afternoon. The environmental group parked its vehicle in White Plaza to publicize its message: action for sustainability and renewable energy. #gallery http://daily.stanford.edu/image/full/9064
Mae Ryan

A student lounged inside the Bio Tour’s big blue 1990s school bus Monday afternoon. The environmental group parked its vehicle in White Plaza to publicize its message: action for sustainability and renewable energy.

Task force looks at class size

Student input low at town-hall meetings to discuss freshman class expansion
By Devin Banerjee
NEWS| The task force on undergraduate expansion held two hour-long town-hall meetings Monday to discuss the prospect of increasing the size of Stanford’s undergraduate population.

Dave Barry does Stanford

By Andrea Fuller
NEWS| The man The New York Times has hailed as “the funniest man in America” gave the packed crowd at Memorial Auditorium some life advice Monday night.

University urged to act on rising birth control prices

By Anneke Nelson
NEWS| In light of Columbia University’s recent triumph in the battle against rising birth control costs, Stanford Students for Choice are leading campus efforts to follow suit.

City, University look to market Palo Alto

By Susana Montes
NEWS| The city of Palo Alto will invest up to $240,000 over the next two years to improve upon Destination Palo Alto, a homegrown marketing project to promote the city nationally and internationally.

To SLE or not to SLE?

By Shruti Tibrewala
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BRIEF: Stanford researchers create stem cells

By The Daily News Staff
NEWS| A team of Stanford researchers in the School of Medicine has successfully transformed normal skin cells into cancer stem cells.

BRIEF: Stanford prof. nabs Nemmers

By The Daily News Staff
NEWS| Stanford’s Paul Milgrom was announced as the winner of Northwestern University’s 2008 Nemmers Prize in economics.