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...amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) -- also known as Lou Gehrig's disease -- a disorder that would inevitably render him paralyzed and incapable of performing most kinds of work. As the authors note, theoretical physics was "one of the very few jobs for which his mind was the only real tool he needed...
...used that tool with consummate skill. While still a graduate student, Hawking became fascinated by black holes, the bizarre objects created during the death throes of large stars. Working with mathematician Roger Penrose and using Einstein's relativity equations, he developed new techniques proving mathematically that at the heart of black holes were singularities -- infinitely dense, dimensionless points with irresistible gravity. He went on to demonstrate that the entire universe could have sprung from a singularity and, in his 1966 Ph.D. thesis, wryly noted that "there is a singularity in our past...
...students know how far he'd go to teach his lessons. The professor, 30, confessed last week to helping two inmates escape from a medium-security prison in upstate New York. State police say Petrik provided the two, who were serving time for murder and robbery, with a tool to cut the prison's chain link fence, then drove them to Manhattan. Colleagues were predictably "shocked" that the professor had helped in the escape. At week's end Petrik was behind bars, facing a seven-year prison term with no sabbaticals, and one of the jailbirds had been caught. Give...
...Francisco Bay Times, which serves the Bay Area's gay and lesbian community, ran a cover showing Hongisto in a doctored photograph grasping a nightstick in a lewd fashion. The headline read, DICK'S COOL NEW TOOL: MARTIAL LAW. The article slammed Hongisto, a sympathetic veteran of the city's Flower Power demonstrations in the 1960s, who three weeks ago ordered massive police sweeps that resulted in more than 1,700 arrests. The show of force enraged liberals and inspired the Bay Times story. Hongisto, appointed by Mayor Frank Jordan only six weeks ago, denies ordering his cops to remove...
...never lived in a refugee camp, spent time in jail, proved her activist credentials: "We don't know her history, where she stands." She's not from any faction, and among Palestinians, who you are is whom you belong to. Her enemies accuse her of being a tool of the P.L.O., which pays her salary, supplies her bodyguards, keeps her in power. No, others say, she's there only because the Americans want her there. She's too compromising: "People think she negotiates on behalf of Baker instead of negotiating with Baker on behalf of the Palestinians...