Smog Pioneer Dies at Age 79
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By The Associated Press  Sheldon K. Friedlander, whose work in identifying the sources of particles in Southern California smog led to new ways of studying and regulating air pollution, has died.  Friedlander died Feb.
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AUSTIN, Texas  - Lady Bird Johnson, a quiet but powerful adviser to husband President Lyndon Johnson and an environmentalist who fought to preserve the country's natural beauty, died of respiratory failure on Wednesday at the age of 94, a family spokesman said.
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Ernest Gallo, a pioneer and giant in the U.S. wine industry, died on Tuesday at age 97 of natural causes at his Modesto, California, home, family spokesman John Segale said.
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A pilot who died when his aerobatic plane plunged into the sea was an engineer who promoted fuel-efficient hybrid vehicles and was dubbed the "American father of the Prius."
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By Steve Vantreese, The Paducah Sun, Ky.  Jun. 16-- -- Doug Travis' 60 years of service as a conservation educator ended the way he always said they would.   He died.
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accident nine years ago made him a worldwide advocate for embryonic stem cell research and gave him a hate-love relationship with the Christian community, died Sunday of heart failure, his family and publicist announced Monday, October 11.
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Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, a guru to the Beatles who introduced transcendental meditation to the West, died at his Dutch home overnight, a spokesman said on Wednesday. He was said to be 91.
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Soon after Johnny Carson's death last weekend, NBC announced the 79-year-old entertainer had died of emphysema, a respiratory disease that can be attributed to smoking.
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Professor Maurice Wilkins, who helped unlock the structure of DNA with Crick, Watson and Franklin, has died aged 88.
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Allen Carr, an anti-smoking campaigner  who helped millions quit after he kicked a 100-a-day habit,  died from lung cancer on Wednesday, his spokesman said.
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Legendary television entertainer Johnny Carson has died of emphysema at age 79, the NBC television network reported on its Web site on Sunday.
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Magazine photojournalist Carl Mydans, a pioneer of photo essays at Life magazine in the 1930s, has died at age 97.
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Hubert Curien, a scientist, former minister and architect of French space policy regarded as a father of the Ariane series of rockets, has died at age 80.
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Pioneering NASA engineer Maxime Faget, who designed the Project Mercury capsule that carried the first US astronauts into space and worked on every subsequent manned spacecraft including the space shuttle, has died at the age of 83
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Gordon Cooper, one of the Mercury  Seven astronauts who helped pioneer human space exploration,  piloting the last of the Mercury missions and the troubled  Gemini 5 flight, died on Monday. He was 77.
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On smoggy days, deaths from heart and respiratory ailments and other diseases rise, causing several thousand more people throughout the United States to die each year, according to a study published Tuesday that links air pollution and mortality in 95
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A man died over the weekend at a wind farm under construction in Oregon in what is believed to be the first death of a wind power worker in the United States, law enforcement and industry officials said on Monday.