Lecture: 'Sputnik Moment: The Real Story'
Dragutin Petkovic, a professor of computer science at San Francisco State University, will give a free talk from 2 to 2:30 p.m. today, Oct. 2, on the Sputnik Program in the Soviet Union and its catalyst effects on the American space program. The event will be in the James H. Clark Center, Room S360, at Stanford University, with a Q&A following the talk. Go to events.stanford.edu.

=B Authors: Michael Grant and Katherine Applegate==
Authors Michael Grant and Katherine Applegate will speak on their new book, "Eve and Adam," a futuristic take on the Adam and Eve story, at 6:30 p.m. today, Oct. 2. The event is at Books Inc. at 74 Town & Country Village in Palo Alto. In the book, a woman at her mother's secret research facility is assigned an unusual project, creating the perfect boy. Go to booksinc.net.

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