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03/10/2010 09:50 PM
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Mass. patron who paid for conjoined twins' op dies
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AP - A Massachusetts philanthropist who gave away millions of dollars to meet medical expenses for needy people and paid for the separation surgery of conjoined twins has died. A. Raymond Tye was 87.
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03/10/2010 08:56 PM
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Corey Haim prolonged tragic Hollywood tradition
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 AP - Corey Haim's story is sadly familiar in Hollywood: A teen talent who discovered drugs as he tasted his first success and whose personal problems increased as his star-power faded.
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03/10/2010 10:24 AM
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Egypt's top Muslim cleric dies of heart attack
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 AP - Egypt's top cleric, Sheik Mohammed Sayed Tantawi, known for promoting the government agenda against female genital mutilation and the face veil, died of a heart attack Wednesday during a visit to Saudi Arabia. He was 81.
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03/10/2010 12:34 AM
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NH campaign finance activist Granny D dies at 100
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AP - Doris "Granny D" Haddock, a New Hampshire woman who walked across the country at age 89 to promote campaign finance reform and later waged a quixotic campaign for U.S. Senate, has died. She was 100.
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03/09/2010 03:48 PM
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Former Medellin drug trafficker Porras dies at 62
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AP - Evaristo Porras, a former high-flying Medellin cartel drug trafficker associated with Pablo Escobar in the 1980s, has died at age 62, reportedly in economic ruin.
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03/09/2010 10:51 AM
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Israeli spy Kimche dead at 82
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AP - David Kimche, the Israeli spy-turned-diplomat who played a key role in the Iran-Contra scandal that rocked President Ronald Reagan's administration, has died. He was 82.
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03/09/2010 07:05 AM
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Greek scholar Sir Kenneth Dover dies at 89
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AP - Sir Kenneth Dover, a distinguished historian of Greek culture who gained wider fame by admitting his wish to kill a troublesome colleague, has died at 89.
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03/08/2010 10:20 PM
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Architect of Chicago's former Sears Tower dies
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AP - Bruce J. Graham, the pioneering architect who designed the iconic Chicago skyscraper formerly named the Sears Tower, has died. He was 84.
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03/08/2010 09:27 PM
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Conservationist Edgar Wayburn dies at 103
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 AP - Dr. Edgar Wayburn, a five-term Sierra Club president who received the Presidential Medal of Freedom for working to preserve vast tracts of U.S. wilderness, has died. He was 103.
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03/08/2010 03:36 PM
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Mark Linkous, leader of Sparklehorse, dies at 47
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AP - Mark Linkous, the singer-songwriter who released his music under the band name Sparklehorse, has died after shooting himself in the chest in Tennessee. He was 47.
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03/07/2010 03:14 PM
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Actor Richard Stapley dies at 86
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AP - Richard Stapley, the actor who appeared alongside Elizabeth Taylor in "Little Women" and with Gene Kelly in "The Three Musketeers," has died. He was 86.
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03/07/2010 10:34 AM
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Former head of Johnson Space Center dies in Texas
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AP - Aaron Cohen, the former director of NASA's Johnson Space Center who helped create the space shuttle program, has died in College Station after a long fight with cancer. He was 79.
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03/06/2010 09:18 PM
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'Boggy Creek' filmmaker Pierce dies in Tenn. at 71
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AP - Charles B. Pierce, an independent filmmaker whose inexpensively made documentary-style drama "The Legend of Boggy Creek" influenced the hit film "The Blair Witch Project" decades later, has died at age 71.
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03/05/2010 12:01 PM
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Johnny Alf, a Bossa Nova founder, dies at 80
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AP - A founder of Bossa Nova music has died in Brazil after fighting prostate cancer. He was 80.
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03/04/2010 04:49 AM
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Vladislav Ardzinba, 1st leader of Abkhazia, dies
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 AP - Vladislav Ardzinba, who led the breakaway Georgian province of Abkhazia to de facto independence through a bloody war and ethnic cleansing, died on Thursday, his doctor said. He was 64.
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03/03/2010 07:16 PM
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Calif. transportation activist found dead in creek
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AP - A former adviser to former Gov. Jerry Brown who became an activist on transportation issues has died in what California authorities believe was a suicide.
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03/03/2010 05:03 PM
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Former UK Labour Party leader Michael Foot dies
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 AP - Michael Foot, a bookish intellectual and anti-nuclear campaigner who led Britain's Labour Party to a disastrous defeat in 1983, died Wednesday morning, officials said. He was 96.
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03/02/2010 12:18 PM
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Winston Churchill, WWII leader's grandson, dies
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 AP - Winston Spencer Churchill, a former member of Parliament and grandson of Britain's wartime leader, died Tuesday, an associate said. He was 69.
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03/02/2010 07:04 AM
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Author Barry Hannah dies at 67 in Mississippi
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 AP - Author Barry Hannah, whose fiction was laced with dark humor and populated by hard-drinking Southerners, died Monday at his home in Oxford, Miss. He was 67.
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03/02/2010 06:56 AM
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Coutaz, founder of Harmonia Mundi label, dies
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AP - Bernard Coutaz, who founded the respected independent classical record label Harmonia Mundi and ran it for five decades, has died, his company said Monday. He was 87.
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