Word: physicists
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...Physicist”—as well as “Hedda Gabler,” “Antigone,” and “The Rocky Horror Picture Show.” She cites her work with “The Physicist,” which she collaborated on with last year’s Sadler Prize winner Michael M. Donahue ’05, as one of her proudest accomplishments...
...Tending to strike people aged between 50 and 70, it kills half of them within 14 months of diagnosis by progressively paralyzing the body until the sufferer can't speak, swallow or breathe, while usually leaving the mind untouched. It's MND that confines physicist Stephen Hawking to a wheelchair and last month claimed the life of Australian artist Pro Hart. Experts' understanding of the disease remains sketchy, and riluzole falls way short of being a cure: at best, it might prolong a patient's life for a year...
...Jessica was a Communist who married Winston Churchill’s nephew, Unity was one of Hitler’s most devoted admirers, Deborah was a duchess, Pamela married a world-renowned physicist, and Diana was a fascist who was imprisoned by the British during...
...beliefs correspond to our fears of the unknown, the unknowable and the unstoppable - of disease, death and natural disaster. Although Wolpert is a passionate promoter of science, he still recognizes that religion has its benefits and that in some things "reason will never triumph over superstition." The Nobel-prizewinning physicist Niels Bohr once explained why he kept a horseshoe nailed to his wall. It was not because he believed it would bring him good luck, but because he'd been told it would do so even if he didn't believe it. "How can one argue with such logic?" said...
...about five miles wide." The singer would be his "sweet remedy," but the sad truth she tells us is that even though he says she's "so lovely, she could get a guy high," there's no rescuing him from his despair. In the title track, we meet a physicist and the lover who doesn't speak his language of numbers and infinity. A country song, Nickels and Dimes, introduces us to a woman trying to account for the cost of a love that isn't showing much return. "She wonders where all of the interest went/ She knows...