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Connecting Washington State University, the State and the World: Washington State Magazine

 
 
• Summer 2002 •



Cover Story
The pull of rowing

by Pat Caraher
photography by Robert Hubner

Because rowing is more timing and rhythm than just strength, top athletes sometimes become frustrated. They must learn to be patient and accountable to their teammates.

Features

   

Is nothing sacred?

by Mary Aegerter

Never heard of C4 photosynthesis? Now you have. It's rare, it's cool, it could help feed the world. And WSU plant scientists just rewrote the textbook on it.

 

Pants that fit . . .
In search of a cure for misfits

by Andrea Vogt
photography by Robert Hubner

"The more I sewed," says Carol Salusso, "the more I got frustrated with the fact that the patterns didn't fit me." So she began designing her own.

 

A titan's tale

by Bill Morelock

Bill Nollan didn't like not understanding. So he drove his athletes and his students ever harder. As if their lives depended on it.

 

Ukraine
Witnesses to an Uncertain Revolution

by Paul Hirt
photography by Tim Steury

How do you offer a reasonable criticism of America's consumer culture to an audience waiting desperately for basic goods that we take for granted?

 

Ukraine
Mining Every Opportunity for Hope

story & photos by Tim Steury

There are many toasts, to friendship and Ukraine and its women, who maintain what is left of its social fabric.

 

Panoramas

 
An instrument most rare  
Olympic torchbearer  
An untamed mind  
Sure pigs play. But what does it mean?  
You Can't Just Keep Sweeping this Stuff Under the Rug  
Future teachers of color  
Sex, food, & death  
Six join hall of fame  
"Adapt, improvise, overcome"  
What does Pim-1 really do?  
Washington sets a record for home sales  
An English import invades Puget Sound  
Forcing students to think critically  

Tracking the Cougars

 
Kleene keeps "influenza watch" at CDC  
School superintendent recognized on state, national levels  
Ki Tecumseh learned to work within the system-or stretch it
Early leader of WSU's Native American students
 
Alumni Association honors past presidents  
Ehlo inducted into Pac-10 Hall of Honor  
Lt. Col. Stinemetz wanted to convey his condolences  
Frances Penrose Owen dies March 9 at 102