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DIED. WENDY WASSERSTEIN, 55, witty, bittersweet playwright; of lymphoma; in New York City. As one of five siblings in a brainy, high-achieving family, she looked at pop culture and asked, "Where are the girls?" In plays like Uncommon Women and Others and the Pulitzer-prizewinning The Heidi Chronicles, she provided the answer with textured portraits of smart, sometimes self-doubting feminists struggling in the wake of the 1960s with competing urges for independence and intimacy. It was familiar ground for the Tony winner who, resisting pleas from her parents, remained steadfastly single. She gave birth at 48 and chronicled...
DIED. GEORGE ARCHER, 65, towering golf champ known for his exacting putting stroke; of Burkitt's lymphoma, a rare form of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma; at his home in Incline Village, Nev. Though the 6-ft. 5-in. Archer tried to follow his father's advice to pursue basketball--"where the hole is way up there," as the son recalled him saying--he went on to win 12 P.G.A. championships, including the 1969 Masters, and 19 events on the 50-and-older Champions Tour...
...many in the group, it's a reawakening. Joe Benoit, 82, who has lymphoma, used to tell his children when they were growing up to "turn down that music." But "now I like it," he says. "Your outlook changes when you get older. You think, 'How much longer do I have to live? Why don't I just enjoy myself...
Harvard University Dining Services will announce that popcorn chicken causes a rare form of lymphoma common in lab mice...
...third of the Class of 2005 will die mysteriously of a rare form of lymphoma common in lab mice...