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...Jessica, whom he calls a "neighborhood girl," actually did fascinate him. Like Seinfeld, she had grown up on Long Island, and of all the nice Jewish girls available to him, he says, "she was the nicest." There was one catch: two months earlier, she had married Eric Nederlander, the son of a prominent New York family in the theater business. Her marriage ended, she and Seinfeld began dating, and the tabloids loved it. "I couldn't believe anybody thought it was anything," says Seinfeld of the media storm. "And I had trouble understanding how painful...
Those are high stakes indeed, and the Hawkings spin an apocalyptic yarn to explore them. George's Secret Key to the Universe, aimed at 9- to 11-year-olds, tells the story of a young boy, George, and a cheery astrophysicist, Eric, whose talking computer opens a portal to the known universe. The duo don spacesuits and use the portal to search for planets to which humanity can escape from the irreversible warming of the earth. Along the way, George and the reader learn the basics of astrophysics and astronomy through illustrations and captioned photographs. "You don't need...
...Eric is a kind of avatar of Hawking himself, whose amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) has progressed to the point that he has lost control of his fingers and now communicates through a computer that converts the clenching of his cheek into artificial speech. Eric, too, is totally reliant on his computer, which also has a "mechanized voice." When the machine is taken away, Eric is left in a black hole from which he is unable to communicate or emerge. That state of being cut off often afflicts children with autism, and Lucy Hawking says she co-wrote the book...
...picked up 58 yards on 12 carries. The two tailbacks, sophomore Cheng Ho and freshman Gino Gordon, combined for just 37 yards on 18 carries, an average of 2.1 yards per carry.“I think it just comes down to preparation,” Brown linebacker Eric Brewer said. “We watched a lot of film this week. We knew what they were going to come with on the run. We shut them down—we made them pretty one-dimensional.”“It’s still a work...
...last line of defense. Linebackers Through one week, junior Glenn Dorris (right) looks poised to have a breakout year, earning the Crimson’s only sack and its only interception at Holy Cross. He’s joined in the middle of the field by fellow junior Eric Schultz, Harvard’s leading tackler a year ago, and new starter Matthew Thomas, who takes over on the weak side for former captain Ryan Tully ’07. Special Teams Though he entered the season on pace to become the second most prolific scorer in Harvard history, senior...