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Such crimes have had political consequences. Some New York legislators, for instance, want to make it easier to force people into treatment. Such measures have a law-and-order feel, and politicians like New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer--a Democrat who barely won his race last year--have embraced them. But most advocates for the mentally ill point out that even if the potentially violent mentally ill could be committed more easily, there are still few places to take them...
Shepard's body was taken home last week to Casper, where he once played Little League and acted in local theater and was always the littlest kid. Annie Spitzer, a Shepard family friend known as Sister Annie at a Pentecostal ministry, remembers a trip downtown with Matt when he was in elementary school. "He saw a flag at half-staff, and he asked me, 'What's wrong with that flag? Why isn't it all the way up?'" And she told him, "Oh, that means that someone very important has died." As she explained mourning, Matt hugged her legs...
...must be some records or statistics on women's harassing men and on same-sex harassment. Your article recounts in great detail the problems faced by women in harassment cases, but these are issues faced by both sexes, not just by women, as a recent court case showed. LAURENCE SPITZER Holliston, Mass...
...innards was crucial. Even so, installation of a complex array of corrective mirrors--essentially fitting the Hubble with a set of eyeglasses--was a high-cost ($700 million), high-risk venture, and some astronomers were dubious. "They considered the whole thing to be rather a Rube Goldberg creation," says Spitzer. On top of that, the list of tasks assigned to the astronauts who flew the repair mission--not just installing the new optics, but replacing an outdated camera, two wobbly solar-energy panels and three faulty gyroscopes, among other balky components--seemed too long. "I don't think anyone except...
Others had even more at stake. Bahcall's friend and colleague Lyman Spitzer, an astrophysicist at nearby Princeton University, first began thinking about space telescopes nearly half a century ago. In 1945, just after World War II, a friend approached the young Spitzer asking for help. The Air Force had commissioned a study to look into how Earth-orbiting satellites--still a purely theoretical concept at that point--might be scientifically useful. Would Spitzer be interested in giving an astronomer's perspective? He instantly saw the potential of turning the satellites' gaze away from Earth toward deep space. "I wrote...