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Silicon Valley elite to honor Steve Jobs
October 16, 2011
| AFP
Stanford University on Sunday appeared set for the arrival of Silicon Valley nobility invited to pay tribute revered Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. An auditorium and museum on the...
Surgeons separate California conjoined twins
November 01, 2011
| AP
Twin 2-year-old girls who were joined at the chest and abdomen were separated Tuesday during a lengthy, complex procedure at Stanford University's children's hospital. The...
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The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an 8,180-acre (3,310 ha) campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately 20 miles (32 km) northwest of San Jose and 37 miles (60 km) southeast of San Francisco. Leland Stanford, a Californian railroad tycoon and politician, founded the university in 1891 in honor of his son, Leland Stanford, Jr. , who died of typhoid two months before his 16th birthday. The university was...
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