Stephen Hawking: `His laboratory was the universe´
(WorldNews Europe)

WASHINGTON (AP) - Everyone knew of Stephen Hawking’s cosmic brilliance, but few could comprehend it. Not even top-notch astronomers. Hawking, who died at his home in Cambridge, England, on Wednesday at age 76, became the public face of science genius. He appeared on “Star Trek: The Next Generation,� voiced himself in “The Simpsons� cartoon series and wrote the best seller “A Brief History of Time.� He sold 9 million copies of that book, though many readers didn’t finish it. It’s been called “the least-read best-seller ever.� In some ways, Hawking was the inheritor of Albert Einstein’s mantle of the genius-as-celebrity....