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PASSINGS: Gail Dolgin, Bob Kholos, Miriam Golden Ziegler Hailparn
Gail Dolgin, documentary filmmaker
Gail Dolgin, 65, an Academy Award-nominated documentary filmmaker, died Oct. 7 at her home in Berkeley. She was diagnosed in 2001 with breast cancer, which later spread to other parts of her body.
Dolgin produced and...Tags: Local Elections, Activism, Movies, Entertainment, Cinema Industry
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PASSINGS: Paul Steven Miller
Paul Steven Miller
Lawyer was disability rights expert
Paul Steven Miller, 49, a lawyer who was born with a genetic condition that made him a dwarf and who later became an expert on disability rights, died of cancer Tuesday at his home in the Seattle...Tags: Queens (New York City), Career and Workplace, Bill Clinton, Justice System, Lawyers
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George Crumb hears the heartbeat of America
Reporting from Media, Pa. —
Despite having turned 81 less than three weeks ago, American composer George Crumb remains deeply absorbed in his craft. The native of Charleston, W.V., has been nestled in his suburban Philadelphia home for 45 years....Tags: Lincoln Center, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Pulitzer Prize Awards, Wars and Interventions, Walt Disney
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Cultural Exchange: China's surprising Bronze Age mummies
Reporting from Urumqi, China —
Almost invariably when visitors approach the middle-aged woman enshrined in a climatized exhibit case in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region Museum, they pause and do a double take. What gets the most attention...Tags: Politics, Archaeology, Skin, Europe, Human Body
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Britton Chance dies at 97; pioneer in study of ultra-fast reactions in human biology
Molecular biologist Britton Chance, who combined an expertise in electronics and automation with a knowledge of physiology to pioneer the study of ultra-fast reactions in human biology, died of heart failure Nov. 16 at the Hospital of the University of...Tags: Biology, Multi-Sport Events, General Electric Company, Science, Medical Research
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Paul M. Zall dies at 87; Huntington Library scholar examined lives of early American leaders
Paul M. Zall, a research scholar at the Huntington Library in San Marino and a professor at Cal State L.A. who examined the lives and humor of early American presidents and leaders, often using their own words, has died. He was 87.
Zall died Dec. 16 of...Tags: Literature, Benjamin Franklin, Death, Boeing Co., Social Issues
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Debate over cognitive, traditional mental health therapy
If your doctor advised a treatment that involved leeches and bloodletting, you might take a second glance at that diploma on the wall. For the same reason, you should think twice about whom you see as a therapist, says a team of psychological researchers....Tags: Philosophy, Research, Medical Research, Illnesses, Social Sciences
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Dr. James Tanner dies at 90; doctor developed charts that define normal human growth
Dr. James M. Tanner, a British pediatrician who was among the first to study the growth of adolescents, developing charts that are still used by many physicians to define normal growth, died of a stroke Aug. 11 in Wellington in southwestern England. He...Tags: 2016 Olympic Games, Internists, Diseases and Illnesses, Children, Plastic Surgeons
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Thomas Hoving dies at 78; controversial art world figure
Thomas Hoving, a controversial fixture of the art world who turned New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art into a hot spot during his decade as its director, helping to pioneer the blockbuster exhibitions that have transformed once-staid institutions into...Tags: Princeton University, Italy, Art Institute of Chicago, Arts, Death
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Mildred Cohn dies at 96; chemist applied physics to problems of biology, earned National Medal of Science
Mildred Cohn, a chemist who overcame both religious and sexual prejudice to make major contributions in applying physics to problems of biology, died of respiratory failure Oct. 12 at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center in Philadelphia. She was 96.
Refusing...Tags: Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Research, Biology, Career and Workplace, Science
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Albert M. Kligman dies at 93; dermatologist developed acne, wrinkle treatments and experimented on prisoners
Dr. Albert M. Kligman, a dermatologist who developed the acne drug Retin-A and the antiwrinkle cream Renova but who may be remembered primarily for a series of experiments on prisoners that led to major reforms in the U.S. medical testing establishment,...Tags: U.S. Department of Defense, Medical Procedures and Tests, Social Issues, Acne, Physical Conditions
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