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...months and was at her side last week when she took a dose of "self-administered carbon monoxide." Williams suffered from severe multiple sclerosis that had left her incapacitated and blind. "Her life, for all intents and purposes, was meaningless," said Fieger. He insisted that his client, the inventor of a suicide machine, had not assisted in the death. Fieger said Kevorkian would turn himself over to the authorities if asked, but cautioned, "He will starve himself in prison. You can count on him ending his life in prison...
...Newton, Mass, inventor and entrepreneur has given Harvard Medical School its largest gift ever from an individual creating a fund which will provide grants totalling $500,000 annually...
...unsparing satire in The Colored Museum, plainly has grander ambitions in mind for Jelly's Last Jam, a biography of composer and performer Jelly Roll Morton. The show is as much a review of Morton's racial politics and ethnic fealty as of his musical contribution as the asserted "inventor of jazz." The central plot point is that Morton was of mixed-race Creole ancestry and prided himself on his relative whiteness, even while immersing himself in, and transforming, black music. The show's theme is that neither he nor any black composer can truly claim to be a creator...
...RADIO ROMANCE by Garrison Keillor (Viking; $21.95). The inventor and host of public radio's A Prairie Home Companion turns in a loopy, endearing novel about the golden days of the talking box and some of those folks behind the microphones. It is the 1930s, and the staff at Minneapolis' fictional WLT can't believe that what they are doing is work and that such good times will last. They...
...program that does the best job of mimicking a human being will earn its creator a $1500 prize. New York philanthropist Hugh G. Loebner has pledged to award $100,000 to the inventor of the machine that first passes the Turing test without restrictions on the topic of discussion...