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Discusses the outlook for electronic paper. Features of electronic paper; Applications for the paper; Comparison of electronic paper to computer displays; Efforts of Nicholas K. Sheridon to develop the paper; Idea that electronic paper could be reused; Use of the technology by E Ink. INSET: HOW E-PAPER WORKS.

The article focuses on the different applications of wood pulp. The worldwide pulp, paper and paperboard industry produces around 127 million tons of wood pulp annually. Wood pulp is created by reducing wood to a fibrous mass using mechanical, chemical or semichemical processes. Aside from paper, wood pulp can also be used to create chemical products like rayon and acetate film.

The article presents several mathematical games related to ellipse. This game is tracing a perfect ellipse. One example is the two thumbtacks that stick in a sheet of paper, putting a loop of string around them and keep the string taut with the point of a pencil. Moving a pencil around the tacks will trace a perfect ellipse. Another method can be demonstrated with a circular cake pan and a cardboard disk having half the diameter of the pan.

The article provides a humorous look at the scientific aspects of paper cut injuries. Topics include the relative medical risks of infection and hemophiliac bleeding from paper cut wounds, why high-quality paper causes more cuts, and the role of the number of nociceptors located in the fingers in the amount of pain caused by paper cuts.

The article reports on a compound found in papers that can control harmful insects. The discovery of the compound was due to the research done by Carroll M. Williams and Karel Sláma at Harvard university. The subject of the research was a European bug Pyrrhocoris apterus. The compound discovered can be found in an American pulp tree called the balsam fir.

A letter to the editor about the degradation of book papers is presented.

The article reports on the laboratory method that was developed to produce two-sidedness accurately in sample papers used in color formulations on mill-run sheet with minimum two-sidedness. The increasing speed in papermaking processes had the tendency to accentuate two-sidedness that would result in differences in color, structure and surface characteristics.

The article introduces the paper drop cloths for painters from Fibleco Illinois Corporation which are among the market-expanding paper products that were made possible by Cyanamid's Melostrength Resin.