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Until now, you had to be pretty much of an astronomy nut to see Comet Hale-Bopp. Not that the comet is especially hard to spot. For weeks it has been putting on a show to rival last year's Comet Hyakutake. People have seen Hale-Bopp, without a telescope or even binoculars, from such unpromising, light-polluted vantage points as midtown Manhattan and downtown Chicago. Amateur astronomers have been taking telescopic photos of the comet for well over a year; the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Hale-Bopp home page on the World Wide Web NewProducts.jpl.nasa.gov/comet has posted more...
...that's about to change dramatically. By the end of next week, Hale-Bopp's path across the sky will take the comet right into prime time. By April 1 or so, when it makes its closest approach to Earth, the comet will be high in the evening skies over the northern hemisphere, brighter than ever and showing a short but prominent tail. And there it will sit, not for a measly week like Hyakutake, but for more than a month. "I predict that this could be the most viewed comet in all of human history," says Daniel Green...
...tail at first, but one will grow over the next few weeks, making the comet even more prominent through April. And after it fades from view later in the spring, comet lovers have a treat to look forward to next year: a second new comet, called Hale-Bopp. Astronomers are predicting--cautiously--that this one could be even brighter...
...their disease, but because of their despair. Recognizing depression in dying patients is hard, since the culture ties the two together. Its symptoms of fatigue, loss of appetite, aches and pains mimic those of advanced cancer. "What Kevorkian's doing is killing people because they're depressed," says James Bopp Jr., an Indiana attorney who is president of the National Legal Center for the Medically Dependent and Disabled. "But depression is curable. He takes absolutely no account of this. He's not qualified to diagnose depression nor is he qualified to treat...
...prefertilization testing is perfected, it could be a blessing for those ardently opposed to abortion. James Bopp Jr., general counsel for the National Right to Life Committee, says he can see nothing wrong with the test, since it does not involve "the taking of an innocent human life." Still, others have raised moral objections to the whole notion of "test-tube babies." The Roman Catholic Church and some conservative Protestant groups oppose IVF as a threat to the sanctity of human life...