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Youth, Middle-Age, and You-Look-Great - Dying to Come Back as A Memoir (Paperback)
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Youth, Middle-Age, and You-Look-Great - Dying to Come Back as A Memoir (Paperback)
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Loot Price R460
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YOUTH, MIDDLE-AGE, and YOU-LOOK-GREAT Dying To Come Back As A
Memoir With reckless ravenous scientific curiosity. Stephen Rosen
disassembled a clock and swallowed a part at age two. At age four,
impulsively chasing a cat up a tree, he impaled himself upon a
steel-spike picket fence. As a teenager, he fell in love with
Relativity. At age twenty-one, he saved three lives including his
own. In his mid-twenties he became an assistant professor of
physics and a father. In his thirties, he was visiting scientist at
Institut d? Astrophysique de Paris/Centre d?Etudes Nucleaires de
Saclay doing research on cosmic radiation; was tear-gassed on May
Day soixante-huit; divorced; philandered his way through the sexual
revolution; served at a prominent think-tank doing top-secret
strategy for the defense department; and wrote a best-selling book,
?Future Facts?(1976). At fifty-one, he married a beautiful and
brilliant woman (Celia Paul, the sunshine of his life) who helped
transform him into a mensch and a ?hero? (Talmudic definition). He
created the Scientific Career Transitions Program in 1990, and
taught hundreds of PhD and double-PhD Soviet Jewish emigre
refusnik-scientists how to find jobs in the U.S. utilizing their
exceptional Russian credentials. He became ?a person of interest?
to the FBI, the CIA, and the KGB. Sponsored by the Alfred P. Sloan
Foundation, he and Celia Paul wrote the 1997 book ?Career Renewal?
for American scientists. In the later best years of his life he
built a tree-house, became a sculptor and photographer, wrote
articles, books, and original songs for family and friends, and
observed and helped his children and grand-children become adults.
He survived near-death twice--from a stroke and subsequent loss of
half his blood, and wrote his obituary even though he has a genetic
marker for longevity. He exercises and swims regularly, and in the
gym's locker room decided a sign on the swimsuit spin-dryer
referred to his well-lived life: ?This unit is self-timed and will
shut down at the end of its cycle. It will not reset?.
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