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...three members of the next generation. Elkann and his younger brother Lapo are grandsons of Giovanni Agnelli, and Andrea is Umberto's son by his second marriage. The family's line of succession was disrupted when Umberto's eldest son, long seen as the heir apparent, died of cancer in 1997--and Giovanni's son committed suicide in 2000. The three cousins have limited business experience...
Died. Larry Capune, 61, long-distance paddleboarder who logged 16,063 miles along America's coastlines during eight epic solo trips from 1964 to 1987; of cancer; in Newport Beach, Calif. The Hollywood-born lifeguard's longest journey was a 4,255-mile trek from Portland, Maine, to Corpus Christi, Texas. Over the years, he was bitten by a sea turtle, a bluefish and a dog; hit by a tanker once and by freighters twice; and smacked in the head by a Coke bottle thrown by a pier owner who said Capune was scaring the fish...
William E. Gienapp, Harvard College professor and professor of history, died on Oct. 29 after a battle with cancer...
William E. Gienapp, Harvard College professor and professor of history dies, of cancer...
...Michael Bishop has long been considered a leading researcher in biomedical science, having analyzed the various processes by which normal cells become cancer cells. His pivotal contributions to his field have earned him many distinctions, culminating in the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, awarded after Bishop co-discovered the cellular origin of a type of gene that has the potential to turn normal cells cancerous...