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Lewis, a 1968 graduate of the Law School, had been hospitalized since Monday with brain cancer and was in a coma. Further details about Lewis' hospitalization were not released...
Dark matter was first postulated in the 1930s by the astrophysicist Fritz Zwicky, who observed that galaxies in the far-off Coma cluster were whirling around one another faster than the laws of physics would allow. They should by rights have been flung out into deep space, unless, as Zwicky contended, the gravity from some massive, invisible substance was holding them in. For decades the idea was rejected as too bizarre. "It smacked of angels dancing on the head of a pin," recalls theoretical physcist Joel Primack of the University of California at Santa Cruz...
Forced retirement also left him more time for painting, a hobby he has enjoyed for many years. His artistic tastes run to the surreal; one painting is called Nausea. Another, Coma. A third, an allegorical study of genocide, is set in a frame that, by various accounts, was either painted red to look like blood or painted in actual human blood that Kevorkian salvaged from outdated samples at the local blood bank, and from...
Klupinski, who spent 11 days in Beth Israel Hospital in a light coma, suffered no permanent harm from his three-story fall which was witnessed by hundreds of students. He appears hale and healthy and says he is lifting weights on a regular basis...
...Lowell House sophomore who fell three stories from a Claverly Hall fire escape last Wednesday has emerged from a light coma and is currently in stable condition, according to hospital officials...