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World’s smartest man “very ill.”

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Stephen Hawking, the British mathematician and physicist sometimes called the “world’s smartest man,” was hospitalized today and is, according to a representative from Cambridge University, “very ill.” Hawking, 67, suffers from Lou Gehrig’s disease. According to the representative, Hawking is “now comfortable but will be kept in hospital overnight.”

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