I-Pod surpasses booze as most popular university past time

apples iconic ipod digital music player has surpassed beer drinking as the most popular extra curricular activity on college campuses according to the most recent biannual market research study by Ridgewood, New Jersey-based Student Monitor. the only other time in the research study's eighteen year history that drinking beer was knocked from the top spot was in 1997 by the internet.
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according to astrophysicist stephen hawking, the human race must colonize alien worlds in order to survive. hawking says that man kind could have permanent settlements that don't rely on support from earth on the moon within 20 years and a colony on mars within 40. hawking was quoted saying that "life on earth is at the ever-increasing risk of being wiped out by a disaster, such as sudden global warming, nuclear war, a genetically engineered virus or other dangers we have not yet thought of."
hawking was born in britain and suffers from ALS which has confined him to a wheelchair, he is unable to speek without a computer. he once appeared on an episode of star trek the next generation as himself, in a scene where he played poker against data, albert einstein, and sir. isaac newton. during a tour of the star trek tng set while they passed the warp core of the enterprise, hawking told everyone he was working on it.