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...venerated one with the windblown corona, was a dried husk. The man who had the great thoughts and spun the strange theories that inspired that veneration was young, full of vigor and turbulence and passion. He was hardly alone; all his organs worked as well as his brain. His household was squirming with babies when he began his greatest work, on general relativity. Einstein's physics flourished not in the absence of life but in its fullness. His scientific life blossomed at the same time as the rest of his life. When he was in love...
...Conner household on Roseanne is hardly an abode of peace and contentment either. Mom has a constant chip on her shoulder -- about her job, her housework, her nagging kids. "They're all mine," she says in a moment of reflection after a Thanksgiving get-together. "Of course, I'd trade any one of them for a dishwasher...
When Dr. Stanley Hellerstein's two-year-old granddaughter Toba came to visit him in Kansas City last summer, his household garbage doubled. The reason: Toba's disposable diapers. That set Hellerstein, the chief kidney specialist at Children's Mercy Hospital, thinking about the 300,000 disposable diapers the hospital was using every year. At Hellerstein's urging, the hospital now swaddles its babies in cloth diapers that are provided by Kansas City's General Diaper Service...
...Laurentiis now lives the life of a much younger mogul. This week he plans to marry his girlfriend, now 35 and pregnant with their second child. Despite DEG's bankruptcy, the couple dwells in a Beverly Hills mansion complete with household staff and, at last count, two Rolls-Royces. And De Laurentiis is pursuing his new films with youthful ebullience. "The world hasn't seen the end of Dino," says MCA president Sidney Sheinberg. "Showmen sometimes miss the pulse of the public, but they generally don't die and disappear...
...when heroes are few and many financial wizards have seemed obsessed by greed and ambition, Lynch was a reassuring presence, a homespun stock picker who disdained the pretensions of the experts and regularly beat them all. His 1989 best seller, One Up on Wall Street, made him almost a household name. "Lynch was more than a great money manager," says Donald Phillips, editor of the Chicago-based newsletter Mutual Fund Values. "He was a credible and trustworthy spokesman for the entire industry. There really isn't anyone who can fill his shoes...