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...create its own universe to which this ailing professor can escape. The fate of his body will eventually befall his mind, and everything else in this ever-ending universe. But as Hawking's science shows, there is renewal in all these endings. Dying stars form new planets, a sick father writes a book with his daughter, and generations of children can share in its wonders...
...home 13th in his Grand Prix final, but as an 8-year-old competing with drivers four years his senior, did well even to make the cut. "Lewis was this good at 8," Hines remembers, likening Nelson to Hamilton. "In four years' time," Hines says, runners-up will be "sick of his face." And that may be just the beginning...
...takeaway from Holy Cross. The Crusaders tested the Crimson secondary all afternoon and took Harvard’s vaunted defensive line out of the game, something that should change this week with Knight and co. in town.“Deep down, those guys in the trenches are just sick of chasing the quarterback and never getting to him, so I think everyone would like to see them run the football,” Murphy said. “But Brown always does a good job mixing it up, they’ll do a great job with the play...
...only been three weeks since a bathroom sting operation made U.S. Sen. Larry Craig a household name, but already Royal Zeno is sick of talking about it. "I don't know nothing about what goes on in no bathrooms," he says whenever asked about the infamous stall where the Republican Senator from Idaho was arrested. Unfortunately for Zeno, it doesn't look like the talk will stop anytime soon, as the shoeshine shop he's run for the last 45 years adjoins the newest tourist attraction Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport has to offer...
...many ordinary Chinese, the Games mark the ability of their nation to shrug off two centuries of humiliation by foreigners. "In the 19th century, China used to be called the sick man of Asia," says Li Weiling, 51, a checkout clerk at a Beijing supermarket. "The Olympics will totally change that. Hundreds of thousands of athletes, reporters and visitors will see China with their own eyes and realize China is not a backward country anymore." Among China's dissidents and democrats, meanwhile, there has been hope that the attention paid to their nation as the Games approach would lead...