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This year marks the 100th anniversary of Albert Einstein's special theory of relativity and the 50th anniversary of his death. Both events are being commemorated by a bid to spark fresh interest in the Nobel-prizewinning physicist, who was named Time magazine's Person of the Century in December 1999. "Einstein was not only a brilliant physicist, but also a lateral thinker, pacifist, cosmopolite and visionary," says Gerd Weiberg, head of Germany's Einstein Year celebrations. Here are some highlights of Einstein-related happenings around Europe: Einstein, who was born in Ulm, Württemberg, Germany, in 1879, lived...
...Lake Tiberias, the biblical Sea of Galilee. With its small stores and workshops and its disposable-diaper factory, Afula is an unlikely setting for an outpouring of political protest. But last week, as a crowd of 5,000 gathered to mourn the death of a local resident named Albert Bukhris, the town became a focal point of anti-Arab feelings aroused by the murder of 17 Israelis over the past 15 months...
...Dick Clark's American Bandstand, rating a record always means deciding if it has a good beat and is easy to dance to, and then assigning it a number between 35 and 98. But now a group of prominent Washington women, including Tipper Gore, wife of Tennessee Senator Albert Gore, is pushing the record industry to adopt a new rating system for rock songs with lewd lyrics. Their designations: X for sexually explicit, profane, or violent; O for occult; D/ A for drug-or alcohol-related...
...overdose. Metaphorically, both women "die of intimate exposure," to quote a character in Insignificance known only as the Actress (Theresa Russell) but plainly meant to represent Monroe. The other three main characters find real-life correlatives just as easily. Indeed, the plot could be synopsized as follows: What if Albert Einstein (Michael Emil) were threatened in his hotel room by Senator Joe McCarthy (Tony Curtis), then visited by Marilyn Monroe, who explains the theory of relativity to its creator, then interrupted by Joe DiMaggio (Gary Busey), who wants a divorce or maybe just a little attention...
...typical kidnaper, in fact, is one of the child's parents. Says Harvey Greenberg, associate professor of clinical psychiatry at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City: "Most kids are abducted by one of the parents who is unhappy about the divorce settlement." Increased awareness of the dangers children face, not just from kidnaping but from sexual exploitation as well, is, of course, well worth teaching, if done wisely. "But you do this," says Greenberg, "without scaring a child out of its wits...