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Ed Miller dies at 87; longtime D.A. for San Diego County
Ed Miller, who served as San Diego County district attorney for 24 years and, beginning in the scandal-ridden 1970s, was a major figure in reforming the city's political, business and law enforcement establishment, has died. He was 87. Miller died...
Tags: Business Enterprises, Ed Miller, Politics, Law Enforcement, Liver Cancer
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On Dr. Seuss' birthday, a parent says thank you
In commemoration of Dr. Seuss’ birthday, I sat on the floor of my 8-year-old daughter’s room, before her bookcase. Theodor Seuss Geisel, who died in 1991, took the pen name Dr. Seuss when he was a student at Dartmouth College in the 1920s....
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C. Everett Koop dies at 96; former U.S. surgeon general
In the mid-1980s, the emerging AIDS epidemic was a high-profile target of vocal conservatives. Politicians and the religious right called for sweeping measures against those diagnosed with AIDS, including quarantine of patients, mandatory screening of...
Tags: Coney Island, Diseases and Illnesses, Politics, World War II (1939-1945), Brooklyn (New York City)
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Tips for ski season injury prevention
Nothing ruins a skiing or snowboarding weekend like having to hitchhike down the hill in a ski patroller's sled — or in an ambulance. Fortunately, the overall rate of skiing injuries has declined by 50% since the 1970s, according to the National Ski...
Tags: Injuries and Wounds, Orthopedic Surgery, Injury Prevention, Snowboarding
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PASSINGS: Cliff Osmond
Cliff Osmond, 75, a character actor who was a regular presence in director Billy Wilder's comedies of the 1960s and '70s and appeared in dozens of TV series into the 1990s, died Dec. 22 of pancreatic cancer at his home in Pacific Palisades, said his...
Tags: Raul Julia, Entertainment, The Untouchables (movie), Jack Lemmon, Billy Wilder
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R. Palmer Beasley dies at 76; linked hepatitis B to liver cancer
Dr. R. Palmer Beasley, an epidemiologist whose pivotal research on hepatitis B in Taiwan first linked the virus to liver cancer, died Saturday of pancreatic cancer at his home in Houston. He was 76. His death was announced by the University of Texas...
Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Liver Cancer, Medical Research, Hepatitis B , Family
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PASSINGS: Jimmy Ellis, Jay McMullen
Jimmy Ellis
Frontman for the R&B band Trammps
Jimmy Ellis, 74, the frontman for the Trammps R&B group who belted out the refrain "Burn, baby, burn!" in a 1970s-era disco hit, died Thursday at a nursing home in Rock Hill, S.C., according to the Bass-...Tags: Photography and Video, Disco (genre), Greenwich, Services and Shopping, Mexico
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Mike Melvoin dies at 74; studio musician, composer
Mike Melvoin, a pianist/composer/arranger whose credits reach from Stan Getz and Frank Sinatra to Michael Jackson and the Beach Boys, and who was the first active musician to serve as national president of the Recording Academy, has died. He was 74.
A...Tags: Michael Jackson, Jazz (genre), Cancer, Barbra Streisand, Concerts
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Herman Cain gaining on Mitt Romney in New Hampshire
Washington BureauNew Hampshire is still Mitt Romney country, but Herman Cain is rising fast, according to two new surveys of Republican voters in the first-in-the-nation primary state. A poll released Monday from the Institutes of Politics at Harvard University and St....Tags: Politics, Rick Santorum, Rick Perry, Michele Bachmann, Jon Huntsman, Jr.
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Live coverage: GOP debate at Dartmouth College
Opinion L.A.Only a month ago, Texas Gov. Rick Perry was the Justin Bieber of American conservatism -- an appealing new face who soared to the top of the charts (in this case, polls) with improbable speed. But then Gov. Perry went......
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