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Kathryn Joosten of 'Desperate Housewives' dies at 72
Show TrackerKathryn Joosten, best known as the cranky neighbor on "Desperate Housewives," died Saturday of lung cancer at her Westlake Village home, her daughter-in-law, Jeremy Joosten, told The Times. She was 72.... -
Drug may be near for cancer's companion condition cachexia
Bonnie Addario didn't even know there was a word for what was happening to her. As if lung cancer weren't bad enough, the 54-year-old had lost 30 pounds off her normally 130-pound frame. Her life was limited to her husband's Barcalounger, where she had to...Tags: Health, Medical Research, Science, Chemotherapy, Testosterone
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Joe Paterno dies at 85; transformed Penn State into football power
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterDuring a six-decade career, Joe Paterno transformed sleepy Penn State University into a national football power, creating a legacy that no one thought could be beaten — or tarnished. But the Ivy League-educated coach who demanded that his players...Tags: Health, Eddie Robinson, Heisman Trophy, Health and Safety at School, Football
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Digby Wolfe dies at 82; co-creator of 'Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In'
Digby Wolfe, an Emmy Award-winning comedy writer who helped producer George Schlatter develop "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In," a landmark TV series that became an overnight sensation in the late 1960s, has died. He was 82.
Wolfe, who later became a professor...Tags: Television, Teaching and Learning, Goldie Hawn, University of New Mexico, Judy Carne
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PASSINGS: Eric Lowen, Bert Sugar
Eric Lowen
Singer-songwriter
Eric Lowen, 60, a singer, songwriter, guitarist and half of the Lowen and Navarro folk group who with his songwriting partner Dan Navarro penned "We Belong" for Pat Benatar, died Friday at Kaiser Permanente Panorama City...Tags: Health, Hospitals and Clinics, Diseases and Illnesses, David Lee Roth, HBO (tv network)
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Robert R. Beezer dies at 83; judge on 9th Circuit Court of Appeals
Robert R. Beezer, a federal judge on the nation's busiest court for the last 28 years and author of landmark decisions on judicial authority, digital media sharing and capital punishment, has died of lung cancer. He was 83.
Beezer's death Friday at a...Tags: Judges, Media Industry, Laws, Bankruptcy, U.S. Marine Corps
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Peter M. Douglas dies at 69; California Coastal Commission chief
As a child crossing the English Channel with his family to immigrate to America, Peter M. Douglas was mesmerized by the churning seas and his first sighting of a whale, an experience that he said forged an "intangible, unbreakable, lifelong bond" with the...
Tags: Politics, Health, Chemotherapy, Southern California Edison Company, Human Interest
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Dr. Lester Breslow dies at 97; UCLA dean was 'Mr. Public Health'
Dr. Lester Breslow, the UCLA researcher who became known as "Mr. Public Health" because of his research emphasizing the beneficial effects of avoiding certain behaviors, such as smoking, overeating and failing to exercise regularly, has died. He was 97....Tags: Health, Harry S. Truman, Medical Research, General Practitioners, University of Washington
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'Wild' by Cheryl Strayed
Tribune newspapersToward the end of Cheryl Strayed's memoir, "Wild," the author, who is in the middle of hiking 1,100 miles alone across the West Coast's formidable Pacific Crest Trail, loses one of her hiking boots. She stands at the edge of a precipice and gasps. But the...Tags: Health, Human Interest, Human Body, Heroin, Physical Fitness and Exercise
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PASSINGS: Doris Betts, Norman Fruman, Stanley R. Resor, Greg Ham, Maersk Mc-Kinney Moeller
Doris Betts
Southern author of short stories, novels
Doris Betts, 79, a novelist and writing teacher best known for short stories and novels that evoke the geography and mores of the South, died of lung cancer Saturday at her home in Pittsboro, N.C.,...Tags: Wars and Interventions, Teaching and Learning, Denmark, Teachers, Economy, Business and Finance
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PASSINGS: John Cowles Jr.
John Cowles Jr., 82, scion of a Minneapolis newspaper family and philanthropist who helped shaped the cultural landscape of the Twin Cities, died of lung cancer Saturday at his home in Minneapolis.
His death was reported by the Minneapolis Star Tribune,...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Newspaper and Magazine, Civil Rights, Companies and Corporations, Justice and Rights
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Wislawa Szymborska dies at 88; Nobel-winning Polish poet
During a five-decade career, Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska had so rarely appeared in public that a newspaper dubbed her the "Greta Garbo of poetry" after the notoriously private actress.
But in 1996, Poland's most reticent literary icon was forced to...Tags: Politics, Documentary (genre), Bronislaw Komorowski, Poetry, Newspaper and Magazine
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