Word: gehrig
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...Einstein, the obvious choice was Stephen Hawking, one of the greatest living theoretical physicists. His classic work, A Brief History of Time, has sold close to 9 million copies and was made into a PBS series that he narrated through his voice synthesizer (he has ALS, known as Lou Gehrig's disease). He's best known for devising theories of the Big Bang and black holes based on Einstein's work. We e-mailed Hawking at his Cambridge lab earlier this year to convince him of the importance of explaining Einstein at the end of his century...
...WAYNE GRETZKY Not since Lou Gehrig has an athlete retired with such dignity and grace. Though he was still one of hockey's top players, the Great One couldn't enjoy playing with diminished skills on a mediocre team. His quick, two-game farewell tour was marked by generosity toward his teammates and rivals alike...
Hawking was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's disease, a degenerative motor neuron disease, at the age of 21 and has spent the last 14 years confined to a wheelchair. He currently has motion only in two fingers of his left hand...
DIED. JIM ("CATFISH") HUNTER, 53, Hall of Fame pitcher; of Lou Gehrig's disease; in Hertford, N.C. During his 15-year career with the Oakland A's and the New York Yankees, Hunter won five World Series, pitched a perfect game, won a Cy Young Award and became the first multimillion-dollar player when he declared free agency in 1974. "He taught us how to win," said his onetime boss George Steinbrenner...
Neither of the doubleheaders will have any consequence for Harvard's place within the Red Rolfe division of the Ivy League as both opponents are in the Lou Gehrig division, but they both promise to be good games...