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Astronomers are used to finding all kinds of wild things in outer space -- black holes, colliding galaxies, stars spinning hundreds of times a second, even a 21-piece comet now on its way to smashing into Jupiter. Still, the giant glowing hoops that showed up in a Hubble Space Telescope picture released last week prompted veteran sky watchers to chatter like awestruck kids. "It's bizarre," said Christopher Burrows of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland. "It's the neatest thing I've ever seen...
Burrows is less confident about his explanation for the fainter, outer hoops: right next to the shining supernova is a very faint object that may be a tightly compacted neutron star, the remains of an earlier supernova explosion. If so, it could, like other neutron stars, be spewing out twin beams of fast-moving particles. The particles, slamming into the hourglass- shape gas cloud, could have created rings that glowed more brightly after the more recent supernova went...
Among people who are even casually aware of the plight faced by Bosnian Muslims, could there be even one person who found this strip humorous? Even Gary Larson and Jim Unger, two very funny cartoonists who push the line of good taste to its outer limits, know where the line exists. Clearly, Conley does not. Joseph W. Hogan Doctoral Student School of Public Health
...They charge that he is misusing the techniques of hypnosis, trying to shape the "memories" of his subjects to suit his vision of an intergalactic future, and very possibly endangering the emotional health of his patients in the process. "If this were just an example of some zany new outer limit of how foolish psychology and psychiatry can be in the wrong hands, we'd look at it, roll our eyes and walk away," says University of California, Berkeley, psychologist Richard Ofshe. "But the use of his techniques in counseling is substantially harming lots of people...
BEHAVIOR: Tales from Outer Space...