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...Those who've been paying attention the last few years won't hear anything radically new, though the honor roll of experts interview in the film - sages like David Suzuki and unexpected wonks like former CIA director James Woosley - deliver bite-size, sometimes haunting bits of wisdom. The best is in the first quarter of the film, when lesser-known environmentalists like Paul Hawker and Janine Bonyus explain why it seems to be instinctual for human beings to treat nature like garbage. (Short answer: we've come to believe that technology has made us separate from and superior...
Some deaf AIDS activists can testify personally to the price of the gap. "I was very puzzled about AIDS," says Harry Woosley Jr., an AIDS/HIV educator in Baltimore, Maryland, who visits churches, apartment complexes and bars with a large deaf population, trying to get the word out. "I remember reading about it ((in the mid-'80s)). It was very technical, complicated and fuzzy information to me, so I just pitched it." The "complicated information" was newspaper and magazine articles; Woosley was found to be HIV positive a few years later...
Other astronomers are cautious about the find, since it is based on only a single unconfirmed observation. But if it holds up, says theorist Stan Woosley of the University of California at Santa Cruz, "it will be a whole new laboratory for doing physics. It will be marvelous...
...appearance. Two teams of astronomers, from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and London's Imperial College, both using a technique known as optical speckle interferometry (quickly dubbed "that speckled thing"), fed data from telescopic observations into computers. What emerged was a composite picture that confounded everyone. Said Woosley: "It's easier to say what it isn't than what it is. It wasn't there before the supernova. It's not a star. It's not a second supernova. I would quit astronomy and go live on a mountain as a hermit if two supernovas went...
...multiple layers cool and become transparent, Supernova 1987A continues to tantalize scientists. What will be revealed? "Eventually," said Woosley, "we should see the monster that lives at the center." Predicted McCray: "The best is yet to come...