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Welcoming entry courtyard with cascading fountain, level lawn and professional landscaping. $1,399,000 PALO ALTO Luxurious living for adults 55 years plus, one block to downtown. Elegant 2bd/2ba plus den with formal living room with fireplace. Two terraces overlooking magnolia trees. First rate amenities include gourmet meal program, indoor heated pool and 24 hour security. $1,250,000 apr.com | PALO ALTO OFFICE 578 University Avenue 650.323.1111 APR COUNTIES | Santa Clara | San Mateo | San Francisco | Alameda | Contra Costa | Monterey | Santa Cruz Page 2ÊUÊ7i`iÃ`>Þ]ÊÕ}ÕÃÌÊÓä]ÊÓäänÊUÊ*>ÊÌÊ7iiÞ UpfrontLocal news, information and analysis 195 Page Mill headed for possible lawsuit, again City asking developer to resubmit mixed-use twist in the Hohbach’s long, bitterly cy of its environmental review. approve the Park Plaza Project” and housing/research & development project contested attempt to construct 84 In October 2007, Santa Clara to allow for public comments on the apartments atop research and devel- County Superior Court Judge Les- environmental study or otherwise by Becky Trout opment space on 2.4 acres at Park lie Nichols agreed the city and Hoh- comply with state law. Boulevard and Page Mill beside the bach had not adequately examined To city attorneys and planners, therton developer and patent Mill Road. railroad tracks. the project’s environmental risks, the meaning of the judge’s ruling is attorney Harold Hohbach, “If we can’t come to some reso- Although the City Council nar- specifically regarding vapors from quite clear. A 86, is threatening to sue the lution that is acceptable to us, that rowly (5-4) approved the project in groundwater contaminated with the “It’s as if the project never hap- City of Palo Alto unless it agrees would be the only logical [action],” November 2006, a residents’ group chemical trichloroethylene (TCE) pened,” Assistant City Attorney to abbreviate its review of his con- Hohbach’s attorney James Janz said led by Bob Moss and Tom Jordan beneath the site. Donald Larkin said. troversial proposal for a 105,000- Friday. filed suit, contesting several aspects Nichols ordered the city to “set square-foot building at 195 Page The legal threats are the latest of the project, including the adequa- aside in its entirety its decision to VÌÕi`ÊÊ«>}iÊ9) BUSINESS Facebook goes to Stanford Research Park Some employees may remain downtown by Arden Pennell he Internet firm Facebook, headquartered in downtown T Palo Alto with more than 600 employees at five offices, will move all or a substantial portion of its operations to a site at Stanford Research Park, the company con- firmed Monday. To accommodate its rapid growth, the firm will lease 1601 California Ave. — a roughly 8.5-acre, 152,000- square-foot site — and relocate in the first quarter of 2009, Facebook spokesperson Debbie Frost said in e-mail statements. Darlene Bouchard Darlene The company will likely — but not definitely — retain office space downtown, to maintain room for employees that overflow even the new California Avenue site, accord- ing to Frost. The new location is a former Hewlett-Packard Company (HP) Bigfoot in Palo Alto? building later occupied by HP’s Just moments before a press conference called to reveal ‘evidence’ of Bigfoot’s existence, Joey Hawilo of Palo Alto held a sign out- instruments-manufacturing spin- side the Cabana Hotel in Palo Alto. Indistinct photographs of a body discovered in Georgia by Matthew “Gary” Whitton, a police off, Agilent. The site is slated for officer from Clayton County, Ga., and his friend Ric Dyer, were released as ‘evidence’ of Bigfoot’s existence. The press conference eventual conversion to housing un- offered more questions than answers, attendees said. der a 2005 agreement between the city and Stanford University. Facebook declined to state how living in Mexico and was extradited He had been linked to the crime long it would remain at the new site CRIME to Los Angeles last Wednesday. based on a ring found at the crime but said it is still looking for a major He has been charged with one scene, which was engraved with the campus to house its growing opera- count of sexual assault during the name “Edwin.” Hernandez’s brother tions. Man arrested for rape commission of a burglary and one Edwin lived near the assisted-living The firm’s reported target is 1,000 count of elder abuse with great bodi- facility and had reported the ring employees by year’s end. of 94-year-old woman ly injury, according to Palo Alto Po- stolen the previous year. The social-networking company lice Agent Dan Ryan. Hernandez was exonerated three and website have ballooned in size DNA match triggered manhunt, arrest in 2002 case On May 10, 2002, the woman weeks later by DNA evidence and since a 2004 move to downtown was raped and brutally beaten in her was released, although then-Police from founder Mark Zuckerberg’s by Jocelyn Dong ground-floor Palo Alto Commons Chief Pat Dwyer previously said Harvard University dorm room. apartment off El Camino Real in Hernandez might still be part of the Initially, a couple dozen employ- n an international case involving ing and rape of a 94-year-old wom- south Palo Alto. Police initially ar- ongoing investigation. ees worked out of a single Univer- the FBI, the U.S. Justice Depart- an in a Palo Alto assisted-living rested Gunn High School graduate The false confession became a sity Avenue office. I ment and Mexican law enforce- center, Palo Alto police announced Jorge Hernandez, then 18, following focus of an inquiry into police in- Now, a swarm of mainly young ment, a 40-year-old man has been Friday. an interrogation that police claimed arrested for the vicious 2002 beat- Roberto Cruz Recendes had been produced a confession. VÌÕi`ÊÊ«>}iÊ9) VÌÕi`ÊÊ«>}iÊ9) *>ÊÌÊ7iiÞÊUÊ7i`iÃ`>Þ]ÊÕ}ÕÃÌÊÓä]ÊÓäänÊU *>}iÊ3 Language Classes for Children & Adults 703 HIGH STREET, PALO ALTO, CA 94302 Year-Long After School Program for Kids (650) 326-8210 14-Week Evening Session for Adults PUBLISHER Our William S. Johnson www.istp.org 151 Laura Lane EDITORIAL Jay Thorwaldson, Editor Palo Alto Jocelyn Dong, Managing Editor (650) 251-8519 Allen Clapp, Carol Blitzer, Associate Editors Keith Peters, Sports Editor I Town by Don Kazak E n Tyler Hanley, Online Editor te Enroll Now! co Rebecca Wallace, Arts & Entertainment Editor rn Rick Eymer, Assistant Sports Editor l Offering: e Don Kazak, Senior Staff Writer atio Arabic in Arden Pennell, Becky Trout, Staff Writers Notes from an ancient world Sue Dremann, Staff Writer, Special Sections Editor French te n Karla Kane, Editorial Assistant n an upstairs room in Stanford rn Some come from ancient village Hindi ̽ a Marjan Sadoughi, Veronica Weber, Staff l at Photographers University’s Green Library, a half- associations and record the bylaws Italian Sc ࣑ i Jeanne Aufmuth, Dale Bentson, dozen graduate students sit quiet- and even list fines for violations. Spanish o I h n Kit Davey, Iris Harrell, Jack McKinnon, ly at tables, engrossed by the texts on oo “We’re learning how to date Mandarin a Susan Tavernetti, Robert Taylor, Craig Wentz, l their laptop computer screens. them,” Sutherland said — the style e ... and more! l Contributors of Thea Lamkin, Megan Rawlins, Johanna Toivio, ᄑ de Two professors sit nearby, available of writing differs from century to Editorial Interns t for consultation as they, too, study l century. h Jill Kimball, Arts and Entertainment Intern ዕ a e Darlene Bouchard, Photography Intern texts on their computer screens. There’s a purpose to the research P P None of that is out of the ordinary in learning how people lived 2,000 é DESIGN ओ e nin n Shannon Corey, Design Director at Green Library, where students years ago and what was important i Diane Haas, Sue Peck, Senior Designers n and professors are always seeking enough for them to write down. The su su Dana James, Paul Llewellyn, Charmaine Mirsky, Scott Peterson, Designers knowledge. results will be published in a book l l e a PRODUCTION It’s the age of the texts that makes co-edited by three professors who Jennifer Lindberg, Production Manager this effort unusual. conducted the Papyrological Institute. Dorothy Hassett, Blanca Yoc, The texts are mainly in Greek and One wonders whether their book will Sales & Production Coordinators Demotic, an ancient Egyptian lan- still be readable 2,000 years hence. ADVERTISING Classes begin September 15 Vern Ingraham, Advertising Director guage, and they are being translated Sutherland didn’t start out as a Cathy Norfleet, Display Advertising Sales into English.