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Physics Professor Emeritus Philip Pearle has published a paper titled "How Stands Collapse I," in the Journal of Phys. A: Math. Theor. 40 (2007) 3189-3204. In this work, he reviews the current status of a theory called "dynamical wave function collapse," begun by him in the 1970s, which since then has been developed significantly by others as well as himself. It changes standard quantum theory, which may be thought of as describing a collection of identical systems, enabling it to describe an individual system's behavior. He presents 10 problems raised by his initial theory, and shows how five of them were overcome. In a future paper, to be published in a volume honoring the physicist-philosopher Abner Shimony, he discusses the the other five problems, some of which have also achieved a resolution.