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DIED. WILLIAM H. MASTERS, 85, sex-therapy pioneer who, with research partner and second wife Virginia Johnson, studied the mating habits of hundreds of couples to demystify the once taboo mechanics of sex; in Tucson, Ariz. His scientific odyssey into the well-kept secrets of human sexuality began in 1954, and for the next 40 years Masters and Johnson deconstructed and upended popular theories about sex and alleviated the guilt and fear attached...
...inquiring reporters that, Silver says?it's too hot a topic right now. "I think what's happened is that all the mainstream doctors have taken a hands-off approach because of this huge public outcry. But I think what they are hoping is that some fringe group will pioneer it and that it will slowly come into the mainstream and then they will be able to provide it to their patients...
...DIED. ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH, 94, author and widow of high-flying pioneer Charles Lindbergh; in Passumpsic, Vermont. Five volumes of best-selling diaries and 21 books of prose and poetry won Morrow Lindbergh fame in her own right, but her marriage to the man who completed the first transatlantic solo flight put the shy Smith College graduate in the public eye. "The first couple of the skies," as they were known, flew record-breaking trips across Latin America and Asia. But the 1932 kidnapping and death of their baby Charlie ended the idyll. Moreover, the couple's isolationist statements before...
...DIED. FUKI KUSHIDA, 101, peace activist and pioneer of the Japanese women's liberation movement; in Tokyo. The soft-spoken community leader, widowed at 35, worked as a magazine reporter and insurance agent to support her two children. A founding member of the post-war Federation of Japanese Women's Organizations, which today has almost 1 million members, Kushida lobbied for gender equality and the elimination of nuclear weapons. Protesting militarism to the end, wheelchair-bound Kushida led a 2,000-person march in Tokyo in February 1999, the month she turned...
...inquiring reporters that, Silver says--it's too hot a topic right now. "I think what's happened is that all the mainstream doctors have taken a hands-off approach because of this huge public outcry. But I think what they are hoping is that some fringe group will pioneer it and that it will slowly come into the mainstream and then they will be able to provide it to their patients...