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Stephen Hawking hospitalized, reported very ill
AP on Yahoo ^ | 4/20/09 | Robert Barr - ap

Posted on 04/20/2009 9:27:14 AM PDT by NormsRevenge

LONDON – Famed mathematician Stephen Hawking was rushed to a hospital Monday and was seriously ill, Cambridge University said.

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Hawking, 67, gained renown for his work on black holes, and has remained active despite being diagnosed at 21 with ALS, (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), an incurable degenerative disorder also known as Lou Gehrig's disease.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: hawking; hospitalized; reported; science; stringtheory; veryill
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1 posted on 04/20/2009 9:27:14 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
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To: NormsRevenge

Drudge has this, and it sounds like it wasn’t as serious, and he’ll be held overnight. Maybe just has to be stabilized or fluids inserted or removed.


2 posted on 04/20/2009 9:28:20 AM PDT by BlueStateBlues (Blue State for business, Red State at heart.........2012--can't come soon enough.)
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To: BlueStateBlues

inserted or removed.

TMI


3 posted on 04/20/2009 9:29:27 AM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom)
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Cnn thread posted here earlier..

Scientist Stephen Hawking ‘very ill’
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2233466/posts


4 posted on 04/20/2009 9:30:38 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed.)
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To: NormsRevenge
Already posted.

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5 posted on 04/20/2009 9:31:10 AM PDT by ZX12R
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To: al baby

Hawkings always gave us information, so just keeping up the tradition of full disclosure. lol.


6 posted on 04/20/2009 9:31:37 AM PDT by BlueStateBlues (Blue State for business, Red State at heart.........2012--can't come soon enough.)
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Stephen Hawking, professor of mathematics and physics from
Cambridge University arrives for a news conference to promote
his book "The Universe in a nutshell" in Munich October 16, 2001.
REUTERS/Tobias Schwarz


7 posted on 04/20/2009 9:32:41 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed.)
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To: NormsRevenge

The university said Hawking has been fighting a chest infection for several weeks, and was being treated at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge, the university city north of London.

“Professor Hawking is very ill,” said Gregory Hayman, the university’s head of communications. “He is undergoing tests. He has been unwell for a couple of weeks.”

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D97M9TNG0&show_article=1


8 posted on 04/20/2009 9:38:35 AM PDT by kcvl
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To: ZX12R

OMG that’s hilarious.


9 posted on 04/20/2009 9:42:10 AM PDT by FReepaholic
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To: NormsRevenge

I’m surprised that no suggestion has been made for “Prayers Up”.

Permit me to suggest that Professor Hawking is deserving of that.


10 posted on 04/20/2009 9:43:31 AM PDT by mkjessup (You're either with our Constitution, or you are with TKU ("The Kenyan Usurper"). CHOOSE!!!)
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To: NormsRevenge

Abused by his wife?


11 posted on 04/20/2009 9:44:35 AM PDT by Leo Farnsworth (I'm not really Leo Farnsworth...)
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To: NormsRevenge; Alamo-Girl; betty boop

Sooner or later, we all get our answers to the “God question.”


12 posted on 04/20/2009 9:45:15 AM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain, Pro Deo et Patria)
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To: mkjessup

I will. :-)

Prayers up...


13 posted on 04/20/2009 9:45:49 AM PDT by Ramius (Personally, I give us... one chance in three. More tea?)
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To: mkjessup

Some of use said a short prayer on seeing the news. I understand Mr. Hawking isn’t a believer, so he needs prayers even more.

I prayed for Katherine Hepburn for years. I figured God was keeping her alive for a reason.


14 posted on 04/20/2009 9:46:42 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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To: Ramius

I was going to make a snarky comment, then I saw yours.

You inspired me. Prayers for Mr. Hawking’s recovery and blessing from me, too.


15 posted on 04/20/2009 9:49:39 AM PDT by Judith Anne
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To: xzins
Sooner or later, we all get our answers to the “God question.”

Yep; we do. It's absolutely inevitable, unavoidable. :^)

I'm lifting prayers for Stephen Hawking....

Thanks so much for the ping, xzins!

16 posted on 04/20/2009 9:51:13 AM PDT by betty boop (All truthful knowledge begins and ends in experience. — Albert Einstein)
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To: NormsRevenge

Quick, clone his brain.


17 posted on 04/20/2009 9:52:28 AM PDT by Sig Sauer P220 (We have our own pirates. They're called politicians.)
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To: NormsRevenge

" Homer, Your theory of a doughnut-shaped universe is intriguing... I may have to steal it." ...

18 posted on 04/20/2009 9:52:41 AM PDT by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: NormsRevenge

I pray Mr. Hawking finds salvation before he meets his maker.


19 posted on 04/20/2009 9:53:07 AM PDT by FourPeas (I am the pink flamingo on the great lawn of life.)
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To: mkjessup

Agreed.


20 posted on 04/20/2009 9:53:36 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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