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[HUGH]

Colin,

The involvement of Stephen Hawking in the brouhaha illustrates, if illustration was needed, just how far removed from this world some in the USA are.  Hawking was in the US to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom from The President.  The Investors Business Daily newspaper printed an article stating that, if Hawking lived in the UK (they assumed he was American), he'd be left to die under the NHS.  The article was "swiftly withdrawn" (how does one withdraw an newspaper article that's already in print?) when it was pointed out to these dummies that Hawking was born in the UK, lives and works there, and is grateful for being kept alive by the NHS for the past 40 years.  The words "egg" and "face" come to mind.

Hugh.
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