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...limited in its ability to comprehend nature; at best it can only arrive at certain statistical probabilities in determining, say, where an electron is at any given moment. the concept that the universe cannot be known by more definite methods that such "guesswork" was so revolutionary that even Einstein could no accept it. " God does not play dice with the universe," he insisted...
...years the Institute for Advanced Study hummed quietly with the intellectual energies of men like Albert Einstein, J. Robert Oppenheimer. Now the halls of its large Georgian central building, set on an isolated wooded hilltop near Princeton University, are filled with outraged mutterings about "breach of confidence," "contemptible conduct" and "second-rate scholarship." This uncharacteristic rancor surrounds an epic struggle between a majority of the institute's faculty and its director, Economist Carl Kaysen...
Died. Ludwig Stossel, 89, Austrian actor who came to the U.S. as a middle-aged refugee, stayed to play kindly old Germans in more than 50 movies (Lou Gehrig's father in Pride of the Yankees, Albert Einstein in The Beginning or the End), but got his widest audience as the "little old winemaker" of 1960s TV commercials; in Hollywood...
...specific processes by which this distortion is accomplished: "The Writer on Holiday," for instance, describes how the romantic image of the writer as "super-human" is given viability by "inoculating" it with a bit of reality--the writer taking a vacation like other mortals. Or, in "The Brain of Einstein," Barthes sees the myth of a universal formula for the cosmos, signified by the formula E =MC 2, located by the popular mind in the real physical organ which is Einstein's brain...
...York City's Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Dr. Lawrence Gartner, director of the division of neo-natality, has found that methadone babies are generally less healthy than heroin babies, and are born with a greater incidence of respiratory distress and jaundice. "Their symptoms of withdrawal last longer and worsen progressively," he says. Gartner has recently discovered a rare and particularly ominous methadone problem. Five babies born at the college's affiliate, Abraham Jacobi Hospital, showed no withdrawal signs until between two and three weeks after birth, by which time the infant is usually away from constant medical...