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Barney Rosset dies at 89; publisher fought censorship

Barney Rosset, the renegade founder of Grove Press who fought groundbreaking legal battles against censorship and introduced American...

Passings: Tom Martinez, Katie Hall

Tom Martinez

Roy Britten dies at 92; Caltech biologist was DNA, gene pioneer

Roy Britten dies at 92; Caltech biologist was DNA, gene pioneer

Roy J. Britten, a Caltech biologist who discovered that the mammalian genome includes large quantities of repetitive DNA sequences that do...

Adventurer John Fairfax dies at 74; rowed across the Atlantic and Pacific oceans

After adventurer John Fairfax became the first person in recorded history to row solo across the Atlantic Ocean, he said he couldn't have...

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Dolores G. Grossnickle

Dolores G. Grossnickle

Dolores Grossnickle had been quilting since she was a teenager. She had just completed theĀ  finishing work on a quilt made by her...

 

Richard D. Mackereth

Had he lived a few more weeks, this would have been a big day for Richard Mackereth. He and his friends would be watching the Super Bowl...

 

Nancy J. Weirich

Nancy Weirich was born to be a teacher.