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Joseph Adolph Sonnabend was born on January 6, 1933 in Johannesburg and grew up in Bulawayo in what was then Rhodesia.His mother Fira, who grew up in Russia and studied in Italy, was a general practitioner, one of the first western-trained…

Eleanor Torrey West, who devoted her life to preserving Ossabaw Island, a 26,000 acre legacy off the coast of Georgia that is so large, lush, and varied that visitors can stroll among hardwood forests, palm trees, and saltwater swamps, died…

George Carruthers built his first kit telescope in 1949 when he was 10 years old and lived in rural Ohio. Fascinated by space, he devoured magazine articles about space travel.If the unknown was to be explored, he wanted to be part of…

The Atlanta Braves' right outfield player Hank Aaron (see close-up photo) has been named to the National League All Star team for the 16th consecutive year.Bettmann | Getty ImagesBaseball Hall of Famer Hank Aaron, who rose from poverty in…

Martinus JG Veltman, a Dutch theoretical physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for work explaining the structure of some fundamental forces in the universe and forming the basis for the development of the Standard Model, the backbone of…

"Marsha and I went to bars and changed all the leaflets every two to three days," wrote Mr. Zazula in his book, "and we posted telephone poles as if we were going to vote."In 1982 someone brought a demo tape from a West Coast band into the…

"He dictated this whole letter," he told CNN. "I did not write this letter."Harold Nelson Bornstein was born on March 3, 1947 in New York City, the son of Dr. Jacob and Maida (Seltzer) Bornstein were born. Like his father, he wanted to…

Mary Catherine Bateson, a cultural anthropologist who quietly wrote groundbreaking books on women's lives and was once one of America's most famous babies as the only child of Margaret Mead, died January 2 in Dartmouth, New Hampshire when…

BERLIN - After Helga Weyhe had closed her bookstore in the city of Salzwedel every evening, she commuted as usual - one step into the apartment above. She had been on the same journey since World War II, as her father had before and as her…

The next year, Mr. Sheehan of The Times said goodbye to The Times after attending the funeral of John Paul Vann, a charismatic, idealistic ex-Army officer and outspoken dissident about the war that Mr. Sheehan knew in Vietnam. He set out…