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...hoping to fulfill a career-long dream of seeing his books at airport newsstands, Stephen is putting the finishing touches on A Brief History of Time (Bantam), a popular nonmathematical account that will be published in April. "Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales," says Hawking. "In the end, however, I did put in Einstein's famous equation E = m c squared. I hope that this will not scare off half my potential readers...
...Bantam Books, 513 pages...
...each of them fronted a performer who seemed a corrupted form of one of the earlier models. Arnold Schwarzenegger in Predator: instead of an amiable hunk like Reynolds, an incredible hulk, muscle-bound and soul-bare -- Robo-star. Eddie Murphy in Beverly Hills Cop II: instead of the wailing bantam Pryor, a strutting rooster, increasingly aloof from his genial gifts. Michael J. Fox in The Secret of My Success: instead of the teen queen, a yuppie pup, too eager to make it, too hungry to charm. He was a scrubbed-up version of the rich preppie Ringwald usually ditched...
...second time this week that Edge had faced, and beaten, the Bantam star. On Sunday, the two played in the semifinals of the Princeton Invitational, a tournament which attracts the top 16 players from around the country...
Though it is hard to say exactly how many Americans believe in which parts of the New Age, the movement as a whole is growing steadily. Bantam Books says its New Age titles have increased tenfold in the past decade. The number of New Age bookstores has doubled in the past five years, to about 2,500. New Age radio is spreading, with such stations as WBMW in Washington and KTWV-FM in Los Angeles offering dreamy light jazz that one listener described as "like I tapped into a radio station on Mars." The Grammys now include a special prize...