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...Isole e Olena Chianti Classico DOCG (Val d’elsa...
...walking briskly for 30 min. four times a week. If you have diabetes, high-blood pressure or high cholesterol, get treated. Talk to your doctor about whether you should take an aspirin a day. "These things are so simple that people don't take them seriously," says Dr. Elsa-Grace Giardina, a cardiologist at the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City. Sometimes the obvious remedies are still the best...
...Betty's Restaurant: A breakfast institution. Betty works the grill; Elsa serves with a smile...
Einstein, meanwhile, had taken up with a divorced cousin, Elsa, who jovially cooked and cared for him during the emotionally draining months when he made the intellectual leaps that finally resulted in general relativity. Unlike Mileva, she gave him personal space, and not just for science. As he became more widely known, ladies swarmed around him like moonlets circling a planet. These dalliances irritated Elsa, who eventually became his wife, but as she told a friend, a genius of her husband's kind could never be irreproachable in every respect...
...quit Germany when the Nazis came to power, Einstein accepted an appointment at the new Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., a scholarly retreat largely created around him. (Asked what he thought he should be paid, Einstein, a financial innocent, suggested $3,000 a year. The hardheaded Elsa got that upped to $16,000.) Though occupied with his lonely struggle to unify gravity and electromagnetism in a single mathematical framework, he watched Germany's saber rattling with alarm. Despite his earlier pacifism, he spoke in favor of military action against Hitler. Without fanfare, he helped scores of Jewish refugees...