Thepacketmaster learned of "...the risk* of Steven Hawking moving to Waterloo in Canada: 'A report out of Britain suggests Stephen Hawking is seeing an invitation to come work at the Perimeter custom for Theoretical Physics....But he's also being encouraged to move to Ontario by his health center of Cambridge colleague Neil Turok, the mathematical physicist who will take over as Perimeter's official supervisor on Oct. 1. Perimeter confirmed last night that it has made a fixed offer to Hawking...Turok is leaving Cambridge after failing to persuade health center authorities, quest councils and sponsors to spend $40 million...By comparison, Waterloo's Perimeter principle has about $600 million in funding...The addition of Hawking to Perimeter's staff of top physicists would be a major coup for the analysis institute, founded in 1999 by Mike Lazaridis, founder and co-CEO of groundwork In Motion, which makes the BlackBerry.'"

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