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...Titanic) and Day of Infamy (Pearl Harbor); in New York City. For A Night to Remember-which was made into a 1958 Hollywood movie-Lord tracked down 60 survivors of the disaster. He also served as a consultant for the 1998 blockbuster film Titanic. DIED. STEPHEN JAY GOULD, 60, paleontologist whose theory of evolution challenged that of Charles Darwin's, of cancer; in New York City. Gould, who famously called human evolution "a fortuitous cosmic afterthought," authored The Mismeasure of Man and The Structure of Evolutionary Theory. DIED. CHANG CHANG, 35, the world's oldest captive giant panda, of multiple...
Some criticized Gould for neglecting his scholarly work at the expense of his shorter essays. Their voices should be silenced by the publication of his 1,433-page book The Structure of Evolutionary Theory, which synthesizes Gould’s thought with Darwin’s classic theory of evolution. Gould’s ideas were often controversial among his colleagues, but the passion with which he defended his convictions was widely admired...
...long been among the most popular College courses. His valiant efforts to finish teaching that class this semester in spite of his cancer treatment exemplified his commitment to his students. Teaching Fellow John Mathew witnessed Gould’s painful struggles to prepare lectures—and yet Gould remained determined to make up every lecture he missed. Gould’s special dedication to undergraduates demonstrated that, though he was famous, he remained accessible and devoted to undergraduates...
...Gould was a fighter; he was proud to be the only person to be cured of abdominal mesothelioma, a condition doctors told him was terminal. Perhaps it is Gould’s own essay, “The Median Isn’t the Message,” which best conveys his gallant ability to combat cancer by adopting a positive, therapeutic attitude...
That attitude gave him the vivacity to explore the history of life during his 60 years, and the courage to fight through his last 20. For all that he brought, and all that he will take with him, Stephen Jay Gould will be greatly missed...