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After earning a medical degree at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, he emigrated to Israel in 1983. He met and married a fellow Kahane supporter; Kahane himself performed the wedding ceremony. Goldstein changed his first name to Baruch and eventually settled in Kiryat Arba. In time his parents, as well as his brother and sister, followed him to the West Bank...
Students whose reading levels are two years below those of their peers are often classified as dyslexic. Yet despite this disorder, dyslexics exhibit average to above average intelligence. Brilliant luminaries such as Albert Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Thomas Edison, Agatha Christie and Woodrow Wilson are believed to have been dyslexic...
Robards' braying and bluster are adroit but familiar. Plummer's fussiness and dither are a natural outgrowth of the feline, even feminine, nature of many of his heroes (and most of his villains). But his raddled face, Einstein coiffure and teetery walk are new and, surprisingly from this most mannered of actors, feel free of mannerism. The verbal cut and thrust between them is the finest now on Broadway -- elegantly bloodless and as ferocious as a slaughterhouse...
Scientists, of course, tend to bristle when they hear people speak dismissively of "research for research's sake." Leon Lederman, former president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, points out that many of the century's most important scientific advances -- from Einstein's theories of relativity to Watson and Crick's DNA double helix -- came out of just this kind of "pure" research. Lederman supports the President's efforts to bring more coherence and high-level attention to science policy, but he warns the Administration not to put its eggs into too few baskets. "There...
...real problem then is the dilution of talent through expansion. This isn't some radical idea. It doesn't rank up their with Einstein's theory of relativity. But it is the truth...