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Features

"We Will Bring Him Home"
By Catherine Pierre
After he was kidnapped by Iraqi terrorists, photojournalist Micah Garen's prospects looked grim. The story of one woman's refusal to give up... or let go.

In Their Spare Time
By Dale Keiger
Like those before them — in a tradition dating back to the 1940s — this year's bowlers from Hopkins' Applied Physics Lab have gotten fun down to a science.

Gracias, Doctores
By Gary Logan
Many of the poor children living in rural Peru had never before seen a doctor, until a team of Hopkins pediatric health workers arrived to set up clinic.

Matters of the Heart
By Sue De Pasquale
From cardiologists to experts in French literature, there is an amazing array of people across Johns Hopkins for whom the heart is the heart of their work.

If These Halls Could Talk
By Maria Blackburn
It's too hot in some rooms, too cold in others. The plumbing is quirky, the lighting is poor. Yet everyone still loves Gilman Hall. After 90 years, major renovations are on the way.

  Wholly Hopkins

Wholly Hopkins: Matters of note from around Johns Hopkins

University: Falk named dean of Arts and Sciences

University: Tuition jumps 7.2 percent

Engineering: Hospitals are too darn noisy

Students: Meningitis claims student's life

Bioethics: On stem cells, more agree than argue

University: VP Lindgren departs for presidency

Humanities: A secret etched in stone

Sports: Football has its best year ever

Technology: How's and why's of computer hacking

Medicine: New vaccine to fight cancer

Wholly Hopkins:   Syllabus | Investigations | Academese | Forever Altered | Here & Abroad | Bottom Line | Vignette | Up & Comer | Findings | JHUniverse | Vital Signs

Departments

Contributors to the February Issue
Ruminations: Learning Their Language
The Big Question: Can Funny Be Taught?
The Big Picture: Making a Splash
Editor's Note: A Sweetheart of a Story
Letters
Essay: No Candidate Left Behind
Alumni Notes and Awards
Alumni News
Your Other Life: Playing with Fire

Johns Hopkins
Magazine, February 2006

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