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Jack Klugman’s secret, lifesaving legacy
The actor Jack Klugman died on Christmas Eve at age 90. Klugman was best known for his roles as the unkempt sportswriter in “The Odd Couple” and as the crusading medical examiner on “Quincy, M.E.” the...
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RIP James Buchanan: The man who got economists to care about politics
James M. Buchanan on the occasion of his Nobel win. (George Mason University) Sad news: Economist and Nobel laureate James M. Buchanan has died at age 93, as first reported by his George Mason...
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Aaron Swartz, American hero
Paul Graham, the founder of angel investing firm Y Combinator, has mentored generations of Silicon Valley whiz kids. In an essay about hackers and the role they’ve played driving technology forward, he...
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Former surgeon general Everett Koop: An unsung hero in the fight against AIDS
Former surgeon general C. Everett Koop died Monday in New Hampshire at age 96. Koop is justly renowned for his role in the tobacco wars of the 1990s. His repeated warnings that tobacco use was deadly...
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Google Reader dies today. Here’s why I’m not replacing it.
Google Reader will die tonight. And I’m going to miss it terribly. But I’m not going to replace it. I’m going back to plain old bookmarks. Goodbye Google Reader. My conflicted feelings about your loss...
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Jack Germond: ‘I’m not saying another word until they bring me a martini’
Legendary political reporter Jack Germond died Wednesday. He was 85. Germond’s “Fat Man in a Middle Seat” was the first book I ever read about American politics. I can no longer remember what led me to...
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