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DIED. THOMAS GOLD, 84, subversive astrophysicist whose brilliant and often heretical scientific theories dealt with everything from the mechanics of the human ear to the origin of the universe; in Ithaca, N.Y. In 1948, with fellow physicists Fred Hoyle and Hermann Bondi, he proposed the steady-state theory of cosmology, which suggested that the universe is constantly producing matter and infinitely expanding. This philosophy, which flew in the face of the more widely held Big Bang theory, was elegant but ultimately proved flawed. Gold's daring explanation of pulsars, however--that they are rapidly spinning neutron stars--was a winner...
...forget Clint Eastwood, Fred Thompson and George Murphy...
...heir even more than his father's. Long after Reagan had retreated from the public eye behind the veil of Alzheimer's disease, his influence over the politicians of our time, from both major parties, only grew. "The question really arose whether the presidency was a viable institution," says Fred Greenstein, a presidential scholar at Princeton. "With Reagan, that changed. He reminded us what a confident and sure President looked like...
...many as 50 musicals might open each year; now the typical number is five. Performers thus have few opportunities to be employed, let alone become stars. Nobody these days graduates from Broadway musicals to mainstream celebrity, as Fred Astaire, Bob Hope, Julie Andrews, Streisand and dozens of others did. Why would any young person would want to be part of this antique, dead-end genre? It's like dreaming of becoming a hat blocker or a Yiddish scholar. What kid in the hinterlands would even know that a clear, crisp Broadway vocal style exists, when "American Idol" teaches that...
...high school journalism, Ledecky was awarded the Fred Russel-Grantland Rice Scholarship, a full ride to Vanderbilt University. While Ledecky was thrilled “because the finances were still tight,” he says his father...