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Describes an electronic paper in a laboratory in Xerox Corporation's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) in California. Comments from scientist Robert Sprague; Reputation of the center; Information on the development arm of Xerox called Xerox New Enterprises; Future plans of Xerox.

A new fax compression technique that can squeeze 200 pages of text or software code onto a single piece of paper has been developed by Palo Alto, California-based InfoImaging Technologies Inc. 3D Fax compresses pages to be faxed into a single indecipherable image that can be sent via fax machine or computer to its destination, where it can then be scanned, allowing 3D fax software to separate out the various pages of text or code. Limited capability versions of the software can be found at the company's Web site.

The article reports on a research team at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California condemned by its rival group of international academics for their failure to give credit to their pioneering work in a paper published in the periodical "Cell" in June 2008. It states that the issue has raised concerns about the pressure facing researchers to produce scientific scoops. The paper focuses on an area of cell biology known as planar cell polarity. Professor Peter Lawrence, lead author of the original study, said the present paper is seriously flawed.

The article reports on an argument of a committee chaired by John Brauman, a chemist from the Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, on examination procedures made by "Science" on two papers on stem cells. It is said that the periodical could have more accurately examined the two papers by adding procedures to detect fraud. It was found that the images in the papers intended to represent cloned stem cells from patients were cells from a fertilized embryos of a fertility clinic.

Deals with African-Americans' influence in making Senator John F. Kennedy the U.S. president in 1960, according to a transcript by the Martin Luther King Jr. Papers Project at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. Highlights of the speech delivered by King on December 30, 1960 in Chattanooga, Tennessee; Action taken by Kennedy when King was arrested on October 19, 1960; Remarks from Clayborne Carson, director of the King Papers Project on King's speech.

The article offers information on the exhibitions "Richard Diebenkorn: Abstractions on Paper" and "Richard Diebenkorn, Artist, and Carey Stanton, Collector: Their Stanford Connection" that will be on view at the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California from July 23 to November 9, 2008. The art works that the exhibition will feature are presented.

Reports on inventions and visions of the future office by students at Palo Alto High School in California. Includes `Projectile 2005,' which transforms the office into a `tropical paradise'; `Watchdog,' a combination telephone, computer and television; `Levitating PC,' a personal computer which floats on self-manufactured magnetic fields.