MIKHAIL GORBACHEV - PART 2 - Gorbachev was elevated to superstar status, mobbed by crowds across the capitalist world. The phenomenon became known as "Gorby-mania," with thousands of people desperate to catch a glimpse of the great man. MARIE CURIE - Marie Curie's investigation of uranium rays yielded the ground-breaking hypothesis that the rays could be an atomic property of uranium, leading to a Nobel Prize in Physics. SOPHIA LOREN - Sophia Loren has often voiced her thanks for her impoverished beginnings - "the two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty." ROBERT GODDARD - Born in 1882, Goddard's interest in science was stimulated at an early age by his father who showed him experiments in electricity. His interest in rockets and space fight began in 1898, when as a 16-year-old, he read the books of English novelist H.G. Wells. ARTHUR MILLER - PART 1 - More than any other playwright, Arthur Miller drew together strands of the American experience and wove them into plays that attempted to make sense of the dysfunction of modern lives.
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