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Drayton graduated from Harvard magna cum laude in History and Science, and began the Ph.D. program in History at Yale University in September 1986. The Rhodes award provides a full scholarship for two years of study at Oxford University in England...
Drayton said he would perform historical research at Oxford as though he were pursuing a doctorate in Philosophy, but will probably end his Oxford studies midway through the program, and return to Yale to finish the Ph.D...
Results from the British trial were less conclusive. In a six-year study of 5,139 physicians, half took 500 mg of aspirin every day. Oxford University researchers found no reduction in heart attacks. They did see, however, a small but troubling excess of strokes. "Some things are clear," says Sir Richard Doll, who led the investigation. "For anybody who has had a heart attack in the past, it is beneficial to take a small dose of aspirin daily. That's unanimous. The dispute is over what healthy people should...
Enthralled by physics, Stephen concentrated in the subject at Oxford's University College, but did not distinguish himself. He partied, served as coxswain for the second-string crew and studied only an hour or so a day. Moving on to Cambridge for graduate work in relativity, he found the going rough, partly because of some puzzling physical problems; he stumbled frequently and seemed to be getting clumsy...
Hawking was born on Jan. 8, 1942 -- 300 years to the day, he often notes, after the death of Galileo -- to parents who were Oxford graduates. As a small boy, he was slow to learn to read but liked to take things apart -- a way of "finding out how the world around me worked." But he confesses that he was never very good at putting things back together. When he was twelve, he recalls wryly, "one of my friends bet another friend a bag of sweets that I would never come to anything. I don't know if this...