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To: Brumar89 who wrote (505104)	8/15/2009 7:14:31 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1579392

The point is, the health system in Britain took care of him since he was a child. By the way, are you uninformed or a liar? en.wikipedia.org "Hawking's achievements were made despite the increasing paralysis caused by the ALS. By 1974, he was unable to feed himself or get out of bed." "Symptoms of the disorder first appeared while he was enrolled at Cambridge; he lost his balance and fell down a flight of stairs, hitting his head. Worried that he would lose his genius, he took the Mensa test to verify that his intellectual abilities were intact.[28] The diagnosis of motor neuron disease came when Hawking was 21" - before he had accomplished anything of note. So, he had ALS, a genetic disease, WAY before 1974! Yet still, the health system cared for him.