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August, 1982

Everybody into the PoolAccepting an Academy Award last spring, Maureen Stapleton heartily thanked her home town, Troy, New York. We suppose she had in mind such people as Alan Barr, a mathematician there. Barr studies how individual sperm cells swim. Now, this isn't exactly like counting laps, say, for Mark Spitz or Johnny Weissmuller. Using a computer with a TV screen, Barr animates sperm cells that have been drawn according to mathematical equations that he concocts from the design of real spe...

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