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Last week's Instruction to Roman Catholics on in vitro fertilization and related matters is based on an unrealistic and insensitive appreciation of what modern science is like.
Physicists appear to have reacted as promptly as the better-drilled astronomers to the opportunity presented by the explosion of a supernova in the Large Magellanic Cloud on 23 February.
