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Ganga Stone, who survived on odd jobs in Manhattan until she discovered that her life’s mission was to bring free homemade meals to bedridden AIDS patients on her bicycle, then expanded her volunteer corps of cooks and couriers into an…

Graeme Ferguson, a Canadian documentarian who cocreated Imax, the panoramic cinema experience that immerses audiences into movies, and was the chief creative force of the company for years, died on May 8 at his home in Lake of Bays,…

Literary references to the grounding of unruly children have lingered since at least the early 19th century, when the father strictly ordered his son Wallace "to go to his own room" in Catharine Sedgwick's 1835 novel "Home" after he scalded…

Foster Friess, a Wyoming businessman who founded an investment firm, made a fortune and gave a lot of it away to Republican presidential candidates and charities, sometimes with flair, died on Thursday in Scottsdale, Ariz. He was 81.His…

Dr. Harvey Schlossberg, a former New York City traffic cop with a doctorate in psychology who choreographed what became a model law enforcement strategy for safely ending standoffs with hostage takers, died on May 21 in Brooklyn. He was…

SHANGHAI - Yuan Longping, a Chinese plant scientist whose breakthroughs in developing high-yielding hybrid rice varieties helped alleviate famine and poverty in much of Asia and Africa, died on Saturday in Changsha, China. He was 90 years…

Paul J. Hanly Jr., a top litigation attorney who has been the focus of the current statewide litigation against drug companies and others in the supply chain for his role in the deadly opioid epidemic, died Saturday at his Miami Beach home.…

In the early days of the company, Mr. Trudeau recalled, he would visit the Andrewses to work on his nascent strip, as all the Syndicate artists did."I would stay with them and help them pretend they had a viable business that, without my…

Prof. Jerome Kagan, a Harvard psychologist whose research on temperament found that shy infants often grow into anxious and anxious adults because of their biological nature and the way they were cared for, died on May 10 in Chapel Hill ,…

He added, “Frogs tell us about the general health of the environment. You are the medium and the message. "In 1998, a chytrid fungus was found to have caused many deaths, particularly of frogs, in the rainforests of Central America and…