Ancel Keys, K Ration Creator, Dies at 100
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University of Minnesota public health scientist discovered that saturated fat was a major cause of heart disease.
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New Albany -- An Indiana man who lived with an artificial heart for 147 days has died, the heart manufacturer said Monday. Abiomed Inc.
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Legendary author Sidney Sheldon has died from pneumonia, his publicist told AFP, after a prolific career that saw him pen Oscar-winning screenplays and sell over 300 million books. He was 89.
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Enron Corp. founder Ken Lay, who was   convicted in May of fraud and conspiracy for his part in the   Houston-based company's collapse into bankruptcy in 2001, has   died of a heart attack at his vacation home in Colorado, a   Houston television station reported on Wednesday.
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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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Showa Denko K K (TSE: 4004; OTC: SHWDF; "SDK") delivered its innovative waste anesthetic gas disposal system (trade name: Anesclean-SW) to Karolinska University Hospital in Huddinge, Stockholm County, the ...
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American fashion designer Geoffrey  Beene, whose simple fashions made him a department store  favorite for decades, died on Tuesday at his home on the Upper  East Side of Manhattan at the age of 77.
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Controversial former world chess legend Bobby Fischer, famous for a Cold War showdown, has died aged 64.
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American fashion designer Geoffrey Beene, whose simple designs made him a department store favorite for decades, died on Tuesday at his Manhattan home.
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Al Shugart, a pioneer in the computer disk drive industry and one of Silicon Valley's most colorful entrepreneurs, has died. He was 76.
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Ahmet Ertegun, who helped define American music as the founder of Atlantic Records, a label that popularized the gritty R&amp;B of Ray Charles, the classic soul of Aretha Franklin and the British rock of the Rolling Stones, has died, his spokesman said. He was 83.
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Billy Reay, the winningest coach in the history of the Chicago Blackhawks, has died after a struggle with cancer. He was 86, the Arlington Heights, Ill.
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Actress and comedian Brett Somers, who amused game show fans with her quips on the "Match Game" in the 1970s, has died, her son said. She was 83. Somers died Saturday at her home in Westport of stomach and colon cancer, Adam Klugman said Monday.
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James LeVoy Sorenson, the 86-year-old founder of Sorenson Squeeze digital video compression and encoding technology, dies of cancer.
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Dr. Arthur Kornberg, who won the 1959 Nobel Prize for figuring out how DNA is built, died on Friday of respiratory failure at the age of 89, Stanford University Hospital in California said.
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Ireland's most prolific bull, which is thought to have fathered at least 100,000 daughters and countless sons and boosted the country's milk output, has died, the National Cattle Breeding Centre (NCBC) has said.
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Ken Kennedy, a professor who founded the computer science department at Rice University in 1984 and eventually became one of the world's pioneers in parallel and distributed computing, died last week at 61. Computerworld's Gary Anthes remembers Kennedy.