Word: newton
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Stephen W. Hawking, a physicist compared in stature to Isaac Newton, spoke last night about the "shape of time" 84 years after Albert Einstein advanced his theory of general relativity...
Hawking is the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University, a chair once held by Sir Isaac Newton. His 1988 book A Brief History of Time has been a bestseller explaining the cutting edge of astrophysics to those outside the field. Hawking is a fellow of the Royal Society and a member of the US National Academy of Sciences...
...year-old Newton resident was charged with attempting to rape a Harvard summer school student, the Suffolk Country District Attorney's office said yesterday...
...burned the Bank of America may have done more toward saving the environment than all the teach-ins put together." And the guy who continued to raise thousands of dollars for the Black Panther Party for years after everybody else had figured out that its leader Huey P. Newton was no revolutionary but a dangerous thug. During the 1980s Horowitz began to embrace the Ridiculous Right as passionately as he had once clung to the Lunatic Left. He founded the Center for the Study of Popular Culture, based in Los Angeles, whose purpose is to make inroads for conservatism...
...have returned from the wild a far more disciplined and effective executive, but his first moves still basically consisted of tearing the place apart--restocking the boardroom and labs with trusted NeXTers, ending the belated effort to build a market for Mac clones, spiking ancillary projects like the Newton palmtop and the Claris software subsidiary and replacing the bewildering tangle of product lines (raise your hand if you know the difference between the PowerBook 3400c/180 and the PowerBook 1400cs/166) with just four: the G3 desktop and laptop machines for the Mac-friendly publishing and graphics communities; the iMac desktop consumer...