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"Jurassic Park" author Michael Crichton dies at 66
(Reuters) Reuters - Best-selling U.S. author Michael Crichton, who wrote such novels as "The Andromeda Strain" and "Jurassic Park" and created the popular TV drama "ER," has died unexpectedly of cancer at age 66, his family said on Wednesday. Home > Rss Directory > General > Yahoo News |
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'Jurassic Park's' Crichton Dies of Cancer The million-selling author of historic and prehistoric classics died at 66. Home > Rss Directory > General > ABC News |
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"Clash of Civilizations" author Samuel Huntington dies - Reuters National Post"Clash of Civilizations" author Samuel Huntington diesReuters - 8 hours agoBOSTON (Reuters) - Political scientist Samuel Huntington, whose controversial book "The Clash of Civilizations" predicted conflict between the West and the Islamic world, has died at Home > Rss Directory > General > Google News |
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Michael Crichton's Rich, Mixed Legacy Though Michael Crichton didn't always get the science right, he successfully turned people on to science with his books, movies and television show. Scientists give him mixed reviews, but nobody would deny his impact or his ability to entertain. Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Michael Crichton's Rich, Mixed Legacy Though Michael Crichton didn't always get the science right, he successfully turned people on to science with his books, movies and television show. Scientists give him mixed reviews, but nobody would deny his impact or his ability to entertain. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Michael DeBakey, Heart-Surgery Pioneer and Inventor, Dies at 99 - Bloomberg CBC.caMichael DeBakey, Heart-Surgery Pioneer and Inventor, Dies at 99Bloomberg - 5 hours agoBy Jeffrey Tannenbaum July 12 (Bloomberg) -- Michael DeBakey, the Texas cardiovascular surgeon who developed heart-bypass procedures that improved the lives of millions of patien Home > Rss Directory > General > Google News |
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Teenager dies after park attack A teenager dies in hospital after suffering head injuries in an attack in a west London park. Home > Rss Directory > General > BBC |
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Author and playwright Gray dies Simon Gray, the author of more than 30 plays and five novels, dies at the age of 71. Home > Rss Directory > General > BBC |
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"Clash of Civilizations" author Samuel Huntington dies
(Reuters) Reuters - Political scientist Samuel Huntington, whose controversial book "The Clash of Civilizations" predicted conflict between the West and the Islamic world, has died at age 81, Harvard University said on Saturday. Home > Rss Directory > General > Yahoo News |
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UPDATE 1-Fire near US' Yosemite park threatens 2000 homes - Reuters AFPUPDATE 1-Fire near US' Yosemite park threatens 2000 homesReuters - 56 minutes agoSAN FRANCISCO, July 27 (Reuters) - About 2000 homes were at risk from an erratic and fast-moving wildfire near Yosemite National Park that was raging across 18000 acres (6475 hectares) a Home > Rss Directory > General > Google News |
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Author of Flashman stories dies Novelist George MacDonald Fraser, author of the Flashman series of books, has died at the age of 82. Home > Rss Directory > General > BBC |
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UPDATE 2-Michael Jackson says ranch foreclosure averted - Reuters UPDATE 2-Michael Jackson says ranch foreclosure avertedReuters - 1 hour agoNEW YORK, May 11 (Reuters) - Entertainer Michael Jackson said on Sunday a foreclosure sale on his Neverland Ranch set for this week was averted after a loan on the California property was sold to Col Home > Rss Directory > General > Google News |
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Author Alexander Solzhenitsyn dies at 89
(AP) AP - Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Nobel Prize-winning author whose books chronicled the horrors of the Soviet gulag system, has died of heart failure, his son said Monday. He was 89. Home > Rss Directory > General > Yahoo News |
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Acclaimed author Studs Terkel dies at 96 Pulitzer Prize-winning author, radio host and activist Studs Terkel died in his Chicago, Illinois, home Friday at the age of 96. Home > Rss Directory > General > CNN |
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Pulitzer Prize-winning author Terkel dies at 96
(AP) AP - Studs Terkel, the ageless master of listening and speaking, a broadcaster, activist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author whose best-selling oral histories celebrated the common people he liked to call the "non-celebrated," died Friday. He was 96. Home > Rss Directory > General > Yahoo News |
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Jazz trumpeter Freddie Hubbard dies in LA - Reuters ABC NewsJazz trumpeter Freddie Hubbard dies in LAReuters - 54 minutes agoLOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Influential jazz trumpeter Freddie Hubbard, who played on hundreds of recordings during a career spanning 50 years, died in a Los Angeles hospital on Monday, his manager sa Home > Rss Directory > General > Google News |
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St Louis Rams owner Georgia Frontiere dies at 80 - Reuters Metro TorontoSt Louis Rams owner Georgia Frontiere dies at 80Reuters - 47 minutes agoBy Dan Whitcomb LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - St. Louis Rams owner Georgia Frontiere, a former nightclub entertainer who became one of the few women to own a major US sports franchise when s Home > Rss Directory > General > Google News |
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"Killing Fields" survivor Dith Pran dies of cancer - Reuters Voice of America"Killing Fields" survivor Dith Pran dies of cancerReuters - 10 hours agoBy Karen Brettell NEW YORK (Reuters) - Photojournalist Dith Pran, whose harrowing experiences in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge were dramatized in the film "The Killing Fields," die Home > Rss Directory > General > Google News |
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Author David Foster Wallace found dead - Reuters Hartford CourantAuthor David Foster Wallace found deadReuters - 4 hours agoSAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - David Foster Wallace, the writer best known for his critically acclaimed 1996 novel "Infinite Jest," was found dead at his Claremont, California, home, police said.D Home > Rss Directory > General > Google News |
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Obama, Brown take walk in park - United Press International Washington PostObama, Brown take walk in parkUnited Press International - 27 minutes agoLONDON, July 26 (UPI) -- Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Barack Obama, the expected Democratic nominee for US president, ended a Saturday meeting with a walk in a London park.O Home > Rss Directory > General > Google News |