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...what really has the kids' attention is that Hawking did a guest spot last season on Star Trek: The Next Generation, playing a time-bending game of poker with his intellectual forebears, Albert Einstein and Sir Isaac Newton. The cameo appearance won him almost as much popular recognition as A Brief History of Time, the 1988 best seller that spent 53 weeks on the New York Times list, sold an astounding 5.5 million copies worldwide and spawned an award-winning movie. Not bad for a volume that was, despite its billing as an easy read, nearly impossible to get through...
...answer is typical Hawking -- droll, irreverent and totally honest. He needs nursing care around the clock, and even the distinguished Lucasian Professorship of Mathematics at Cambridge, a seat once held by Newton, doesn't pay enough to cover it. A victim of Lou Gehrig's disease (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS), Hawking can move only some facial muscles and one finger on his left hand, which he uses to pick out words on a computer touch-screen attached to his motorized wheelchair. He can search through the computer's dictionary by selecting the first letter or two of a word...
...court, Redstone wears nondescript suits and owns the same three- bedroom home in Newton, Massachusetts, that he and his wife Phyllis paid $42,000 for 35 years ago. He favors the less fancy Pine Brook Country Club in nearby Weston over the prestigious Longwood Cricket Club in Brookline. He spends weekdays in Manhattan's Carlyle Hotel to be near Viacom headquarters. Often rising at 5 a.m., he reads the morning papers and then works out on a treadmill while watching TV. His days last up to 18 hours. "I live modestly," Redstone says. "Possessions don't count. Achievement counts. Winning...
...Louis Zetzel '29, a private practice internist and former long-time faculty member of Harvard Medical School, died last Monday, Sept. 13, in the Newton and Wellesley Alzheimer Center from Parkinson's disease...
...ends in darkness as a new bride goes off to her rough-hewn, rural marriage bed. This journey is made by a daughter of a highborn member of Parliament to avoid being a pawn in political maneuverings by her father (played with poignancy and ruthlessness by artistic director Newton). She rejects a lord in favor of the family gardener, a sweet-natured man whose heart belongs, hopelessly, to her sister-in-law. The deliberately oblique text may frustrate audiences who want to know exactly what is happening. It gathers mounting power in three scenes: the parliamentarian's downfall, a Hogarthian...