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Some critics detect a whiff of the unreal about the conclusions. Judge Nanette Dembitz of New York State's Family Court, for example, calls the proposal that can deny visiting rights "blind and untenable." But the book is making headway. In Washington, D.C., Judge Tim Murphy cited it in denying a custody claim by a natural parent. He also heeded the warning on the child's time-sense: once he made up his mind, instead of keeping the parties waiting for a written decision, he ushered them into chambers for an immediate ruling...
...when she read a newspaper article about the efforts by doctors to locate and examine them. When she visited her parents in Wisconsin a few weeks later, she learned that she, too, had had the X-ray treatments. After seeing her family physician, who assured her that he could detect no thyroid abnormality, she agreed to become part of a research program launched by the Medical College of Wisconsin at Milwaukee County General Hospital...
Even if Viking fails to detect living things, there is always the possibility that life on Mars is based on a chemistry different from that of any known life forms, or that it sought shelter even deeper in the ground as protection against the sun's deadly ultraviolet rays...
...test, a small sample of Martian soil will be partially submerged in a nutrient-rich solution (called "chicken soup" by the experimenters). If any Martian organisms grow in the broth and give off carbon dioxide or other common byproducts of respiration-like life processes, instruments will detect these chemicals. In another test, soil will be exposed to a nutrient containing radioactive carbon 14. If any microorganisms consume the nutrient and give off carbon-bearing gases as metabolic wastes, those wastes will be radioactively "tagged" and readily identified. Lastly, a Martian soil sample will be exposed to xenon "sunlight...
...that may not be golden but works. The confusion begins when people think of themselves as embodying these balancing qualities and consider themselves disinterested while all about them are self-seekers and partisans. Smugness is the peculiar vice of the middle, the hardest of all qualities for anyone to detect in himself...