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Mugwump
Joined: 28 Jul 2007 Location: Between London and Melbourne
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Nice photo, K. I appreciate your posts on this topic, and I particularly love the reminiscence about the whisky tasting. _________________ Two more flags before I die! |
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K
Joined: 09 Sep 2011
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When he was twelve, he recalls wryly, "one of my friends bet another friend a bag of sweets that I would never come to anything. I don't know if this bet was ever settled and, if so, who won."
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Now, hoping to fulfill a career-long dream of seeing his books at airport newsstands, Stephen is putting the finishing touches on A Brief History of Time (Bantam), a popular nonmathematical account that will be published in April. "Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales," says Hawking. "In the end, however, I did put in Einstein's famous equation E = m c squared. I hope that this will not scare off half my potential readers."
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http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,966650-2,00.html
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