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My brother had a wonderful role model in my father, who was an engaged and active parent. 我的弟弟有一个绝佳的榜样，那就是我们的父亲一位非常有责任感的家长。 Like most men of his generation, my father did very little d

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SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Albert Einstein had an enviable mind. So much, in fact, that when he died in Princeton's hospital, the pathologist on-call stole his brain. Dr. Einstein had asked for his brain to be cremated along with the rest of him, but eventua