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Judge Feinberg's ruling established the first U.S. precedent in a curious legal problem. The first reported case of human artificial insemination occurred in England in 1790, when Dr. John Hunter, consulted by a "linen draper in the Strand" suffering from a deformity of the urethra, decided to inject the draper's wife with semen by means of a syringe. The operation produced a normal pregnancy. Since then moralists have viewed the process with increasing alarm, while visionary eugenists have hailed the prospects (e.g., the indefinite perpetuation of great men through preservation of their frozen semen for generation...
...many U.S. communities this week, whites and blacks tiptoed stiff-legged around one another, watching, waiting and a little afraid. The ugliest strand of the U.S. fabric had tightened under wartime pressure...
Swarthmore's Strand picked up the new planet while measuring the orbits of a double star in the constellation Cygnus. He found that in their circlings around each other the two stars deviated from the expected path in regular "oscillations" which could be explained only by the gravitational pull of a third body on them (as the Earth's orbit around the Sun is affected by the Moon). By measuring these deviations, he determined that their unseen companion was a body with about 16 times the mass of Jupiter (largest solar planet), that it revolved around...
...Russell tried to determine whether Strand's discovery was a true planet by two tests: 1) "How big is its body?" 2) "How hot is its surface?" (A stable planet must be smaller than its star, cool enough so that it shines only by reflected light.) From calculations based on the body's known mass* and probable compositions (mainly hydrogen and helium), Russell concludes that 1) its diameter is perhaps 216,000 miles, or 40% that of its star-"big for a planet, but passable"; 2) its surface temperature is probably somewhere between 50 and minus 168 degrees...
...Russell has no idea whether Strand's planet is habitable, but he believes it is now clear that among the billions of stars there must be countless dark companions capable of supporting life. Reporting his conclusions in July's Scientific American, he observes...