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True grit
In a heated showdown with Western cattlemen, Idaho environmentalist Jon Marvel, AB’72, tries to outlaw livestock grazing on public lands.![](http://magazine.uchicago.edu/1002/features/images/toc_feature_2.jpg)
Eye robot
Chicago geophysical scientist Patrick McGuire develops artificial-intelligence technology to turn astronauts into “cyborg astrobiologists.”![](http://magazine.uchicago.edu/1002/features/images/toc_feature_3.jpg)
A nurse's shift
A former academic finds personal fulfillment—and a different set of intellectual problems—amid health-care shortfalls and patients who face matters of life and death.![](http://magazine.uchicago.edu/1002/features/images/toc_feature_4.jpg)
A novel approach
Presumed dead by the Alumni Association, an alumnus shares some life benchmarks, told through four writers’ lenses.Features »
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Eastward bound
The University establishes a permanent center in China to expand its intellectual collaborations.![photo: -](http://magazine.uchicago.edu/1002/investigations/images/toc_sm-inv.jpg)
Our inner monkey
Biologist Dario Maestripieri studies the differences that separate man from man, monkey from monkey.
Life after poverty
Psychotherapist Jinnie English helps formerly poor executives come to terms with their past.
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Time warp
As the Law School plans its next time capsule, we consider students’ possessions then, now, and 50 years into the future.![photo: -](http://magazine.uchicago.edu/1002/images/toc_sm-socialmedia.jpg)