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...fame rocketed. She sank into his shadow, a housewife with two sons to raise, while he pursued general relativity -- the notion that gravity could be explained as "curved" space-time. They separated in 1914 and eventually divorced. As part of his alimony, he promised his future Nobel Prize money and delivered three years later. Einstein remarried and moved to America. Mileva and the kids were on their own. One son died in a mental institution, unvisited by his father; the other became an engineering professor. Mileva died in 1948, never having published a scientific paper under her own name...
Havel, a dissident intellectual of Prague Spring fame, had long denounced Czechoslovakia's Communist regime. He was elected president in December by a unanimous vote of the parliament. He has since said he will only serve as interim president until the parliamentary elections, but many believe he may decide to remain active on the Czech political scene...
...trouble erupts over DDI, Dr. Jonas Salk of polio-vaccine fame has a different idea. He thinks AIDS patients may be able to boost their resistance through injections of his Salk HIV immunogen (which consists of inactivated pieces of the virus). Tests with 90 AIDS volunteers at the University of Southern California's cancer center have shown promise, and Salk hopes for a breakthrough similar to his victory over polio in 1955. Last week the Food and Drug Administration approved nationwide trials of the Salk immunogen...
Cymbeline's early claim to fame was that the poet Tennyson had apparently died with a copy of the play open on his lap. After seeing it produced at the Huntington Theatre, the inevitable reaction is: "Who can blame...
...Connor's attack enraged Osbourne, a flamboyant performer who first won fame singing with a group called Black Sabbath. The singer's onstage artistry has included such excesses as biting the head off a bat. Osbourne, who has fended off a lawsuit claiming his songs prompted a youth to kill himself, fired off a telegram, informing the Cardinal that he had "insulted the intelligence of rock fans all over the world...