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Dyson's good cheer seems rigorously earned. For 35 years he has been a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., where his colleagues have included the likes of Albert Einstein, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Kurt Godel and John von Neumann. Dyson has had an intimate look at upheavals of contemporary science ranging from advances in particle physics and molecular biology to space travel and artificial intelligence. His long career in the ivory tower has not made him a reflexive defender of his elite brotherhood. "I detest and abhor," he writes, "the academic snobbery which places pure scientists...
...others who are chronically ill. Nurses on the job bluntly admit that patients entering U.S. hospitals these days may be risking their lives. "You should be worried if you or someone in your family has to check into a hospital," warns Mary Helen Clark, an intensive-care nurse at Einstein-Weiler Hospital in the Bronx. "There is not enough staffing to cover shifts. Patient care is compromised all the time...
...work, however impossible the situation. The only recourse for many is to fill out a form protesting the assignment. This does not absolve them if something goes wrong, but it proves that the hospital knew about the situation. "Someone in the hospital fills out a form every night," says Einstein-Weiler's Clark...
Terry Johnson bases his play around a chance meeting between Marilyn Monroe and Albert Einstein. The space is a New York hotel room, the time is 1953 and the motion comes from the interaction between the characters on the stage. The premise seems a highly inventive experiment, though it leans toward a trite conclusion...
...arty Breakfast Club. A brain, a bombshell, a demagogue and a jock are thrown haphazardly together. They take advantage of this unique situation by incessantly talking to one another. They talk about relativity, they talk about relationships, they talk about their childhood, they talk about their insecurities. As Einstein (here called "the Professor") pithily concludes, "If two people don't give each other time, they give each other nothing...