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...school’s current policy might not shield transgender individuals from bias, according to Professor of Law Janet Halley...
...DIED. FRED L. WHIPPLE, 97, pioneering astronomer who was the first to accurately describe comets as masses of rock and ice; in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Whipple's 1950 "dirty snowball" theory was hotly disputed by scientists who believed that comets consisted of dust or gases, but photographs of Halley's comet taken in 1986 proved him right. He also designed the "Whipple shield," a device still used today to protect spacecraft from meteors...
...Edmund Halley, who would give his name to the celebrated comet, proposed a technique for gauging the distance from Earth to the sun by viewing transits from different vantage points. He died in 1742, before his idea could be tried...
...Following Halley's suggestion, explorers- including, in 1761 and '69, Jeremiah Dixon and Charles Mason, who later surveyed the Mason-Dixon line, and, in 1769, James Cook-headed for remote regions, above, to see the transits that occurred in those years. Unfortunately, observers had to know their precise longitude and latitude, which were hard to measure at the time. As a result, astronomers couldn't calculate the distance from Earth to the sun with much accuracy...
...regard the [House] legislation as a concession that we read the current statute correctly,” Professor of Law Janet Halley wrote in an e-mail...