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DIED. DEE DEE RAMONE, 50, over-the-top punk-rock pioneer who co-founded the hypernoisy Ramones; of a suspected drug overdose; in Hollywood. Born Douglas Colvin, the volatile bassist and songwriter admitted to a long history of drug use in his autobiography, Lobotomy: Surviving the Ramones (2000). His death came three months after the Ramones were inducted into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame...
...cats that urinate all over the house--are often treated with well-known antidepressants (Paxil, Zoloft, Prozac). Not surprisingly, some pets end up on the same medicines as their owners. That fuels some vets' criticism that the treatment is just an exercise in anthropomorphizing the animals. But Dodman, a pioneer in this field, writes of Romeo, a King Charles spaniel that was a compulsive licker. Romeo also barked constantly, to his owner's and the neighbors' distress. Prozac was prescribed, says Dodman, and it kept the puppy from being put down by its exasperated owner. --By Andrea Sachs
...general Kamil Idris says intellectual property can "turn creativity and inventiveness into social, cultural and economic wealth." But for whom? "Some people think copyright is the absolute right to control whatever intellectual property you've created - or in the case of DCMA proponents, mostly purchased," says Linus Torvalds, a pioneer of the open-source operating system Linux. "Never mind the rights of consumers." The ability to transfer a CD from your stereo to your PC or to copy a newspaper article for private use "is a matter that concerns us all," says copyright expert P. Bernt Hugenholtz of the University...
...century," says Cartwright. Fans are less analytical. "It's beautiful. It's raw. It's out of this world," enthused Miroslav Luczka, resting after a hectic bout of dancing to the Yugoslav brass band Roma Zorale at a Prague club last month. Serbia's Goran Bregovic is considered a pioneer of the gypsy music revival. Though not Roma himself, he scored Yugoslav director Emir Kusturica's 1989 film Time of the Gypsies, which critics consider a seminal work that did for gypsy music what the cult classic The Harder They Come did for reggae. Bregovic is still touring with...
Francis Daniels Moore ’35, a pioneer in the field of surgery who oversaw the first successful human organ transplant, died Nov. 24 of heart failure...