David Filo and Jerry Yang, enterprising Stanford graduate students in electrical engineering, devise a cutting-edge method of procrastination: They set up a Web site featuring a list of links to their favorite Web pages. Dave and Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web grows in popularity, and Filo and Yang eventually change its name to Yahoo! which they decide stands for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle." Venture capital follows.

LF's Patricia Kean argues that if full-time faculty make common cause with part-timers - leading the battle for benefits, better wages, and job security - everyone stands to benefit. But if full-timers and administrators continue to ignore the part-timers' problems, one former adjunct cautions, "the whole shape of the profession could change in ten years." At the time, 38 percent of American faculty members are part-timers. Six years later, 47 percent are.

At a conference, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee feminist theorist Jane Gallop jokingly says that her sexual preference is "graduate students." Not long after, she stands accused of violating her university's policy against consensual amorous relationships between teachers and students. In her innovative classes, Gallop emphasizes the erotic aspects of pedagogy. But LF's Margaret Talbot wonders: Between professor and student, how close is too close?