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...research team, which used high-speed cameras to document the rapid rupturing process, determined that its conclusions on the cascading effects of a popped bubble remain constant over different materials. Even bubbles from viscous liquids, such as oil, followed the same two-step procedure of rupturing...
Suddenly, a courageous soul climbed onto the two-step ladder and called to the crowd. Finally, a leader! And real chanting! By the second speech, enthusiasm was mounting. Even we could feel it. These people were getting their act together...
Still, the manner in which the trial results were released raised suspicions among some in the AIDS-research community. Scientific results are generally vetted in a two-step process: first, they are published in a peer-reviewed journal, which means a panel of scientists has reviewed and evaluated the validity of the study's methods and the authors' conclusions before publication; once published, other research groups repeat or analyze the data in more depth to further ensure that they are legitimate. The results of the AIDS-vaccine trial did not benefit from either leg of this process. The investigators chose...
...they stay with it. In "Travis, B," a battered cowboy acts out a romantic fantasy only to find he has no idea how to meld it with reality. Meloy also mines relationships for their own facets of loneliness, most often spawned by distrust. In one brisk, scathing story, "Two-Step," we observe a philandering husband from the perspective of his mistress, who thinks she is clear-eyed ("He was acting like the man he wanted to be, in hopes that he could become it") but who is actually hopelessly besotted. In another, "The Children," we go inside the mind...
...Documentaries for families always have to do an awkward two-step between being entertaining and informative. Under the Sea 3-D splashes down clearly on the entertaining side, and environmentalists might take exception to the Ripley's Believe It or Not! approach it takes to its subject. There's a dutiful hat-tip to the threat coral reefs face from global warming, without any substantive advice on what a concerned moviegoer could do about it. Nevertheless, it's quite a parental high to see wonder on the face of a child. Even behind the weirdo glasses...