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Vol. 4 Num 233 Tue. January 20, 2004  
   
International


Police probe assaults on Stephen Hawking


British police are investigating a series of alleged mysterious assaults on disabled top British scientist Stephen Hawking, the Daily Mirror reported yesterday.

The paper said detectives wanted to question Hawking, a Cambridge University professor and author of the best selling "A Brief History of Time," about a number of minor injuries he had recently suffered.

"The family are worried sick. They've been suspicious for some time that someone has been harming Stephen," an unnamed source told the paper.