Princeton University

Page One
• Record number of students apply for class of 2010
• Universities fill dual role as servant and critic

Inside
• Online journal offers ‘report on knowledge’
• Astronomers discover smallest planet outside solar system
• Researchers develop new method for studying ‘mental time travel’
• University to contribute $1 million to Princeton Borough

People
• Betterton announces plans to retire, Moscato named financial aid director
• Peralta receives Sachs scholarship for study at Oxford
• Fields memoir chronicles work at Princeton
• People, spotlight

Almanac
• Nassau notes
• Calendar of events
• By the numbers

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Editor: Ruth Stevens
Calendar editor: Carolyn Geller
Staff writers: Jennifer Greenstein Altmann, Eric Quiñones
Contributing writer: Cass Cliatt, Karin Dienst
Photographers: Denise Applewhite, John Jameson
Design: Maggie Westergaard
Web edition: Mahlon Lovett