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Two guards from the private security firm,which they said was ALS Security of Boston,confirmed that ten guards had been hired for theevent
The answer is typical Hawking -- droll, irreverent and totally honest. He needs nursing care around the clock, and even the distinguished Lucasian Professorship of Mathematics at Cambridge, a seat once held by Newton, doesn't pay enough to cover it. A victim of Lou Gehrig's disease (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis...
Unlike A Brief History, the new book (a collection of essays, transcribed talks and new writings) contains plenty about Hawking himself. There are the requisite discussions of quantum physics and cosmology, of course. But those millions who bought yet couldn't penetrate A Brief History may be relieved to hear...
Readers will learn, for example, that his father was a doctor who did research on tropical diseases, and his mother a secretary. The family was considered somewhat eccentric -- they drove around in an old London taxi because they couldn't afford a new car. Hawking didn't concentrate much on...
Doctors are hopeful that treatment of familial ALS will shed light on the mechanism which causes other forms of Gehrig's Disease. Researchers suspect that the loss of motor neurons and subsequent loss of muscular control which characterizes all forms of the disease is caused by the action of such...