"At first I became depressed. I seemed to be getting worse pretty rapidly. There didn't seem any point in working on my Ph.D. because I didn't know I would live long enough to finish it," Hawking said in a message for his 70th birthday celebration, asThe Guardian reportedin 2012. ...
I'm going to begin hiking the Appalachian Trail on my 70th birthday - before it's too late. Peter W. from Casco, MaineFEBRUARY 12, 2010 The old Harvard Square fire chief often shared morning breaks with me. Occasionally he would tell me a story, stories that were true and unusual; sto...