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...Moore, a pioneer in the field of surgery who oversaw the first successful human organ transplant, died last Saturday of heart failure...
...Ever the pioneer, Moore also was “one of the first to concentrate on breast cancer research,” Tilney said...
...Americanized his name to Andrew S. Grove--Andy Grove. This immigrant's story has a gaudily triumphant sequel. In the fullness of the American dream, Grove became one of the founders of Intel (he's now chairman of the company, the world's largest maker of semiconductors), a pioneer of the information revolution and in 1997 TIME's Man of the Year...
...month, the day after B.A. announced that its pretax profits for the third quarter had plunged from $290 million to $7.3 million and that it was expecting a significant loss for the year. But not all European carriers are struggling. Ryanair, easyJet, Buzz and Go--inspired by U.S. discounting pioneer Southwest Air--concentrate on short-haul routes, and have been almost impervious to the downturn in transatlantic traffic. Sure, there are fewer American tourists booking weekend excursions from London to Dublin, but business traffic and leisure travelers taking advantage of sale fares have more than made up for their absence...
...sleep, in Birmingham, England. Miles, confident, brassy and aggressive, beat former world champions Mikhail Tal, Boris Spassky and Anatoly Karpov. died. Cornelius Warmerdam, 86, a world record-setting pole vaulter who was named pole vaulter of the century in 2000 by USA Track & Field; in Fresno, California. Warmerdam, a pioneer who competed with primitive bamboo poles, was the first to clear 15 feet, in 1940, holding the record for 11 years. He won the James A. Sullivan Award in 1942 as America's outstanding amateur athlete. DIED. SATGURU SIVAYA SUBRAMUNIYASWAMI, 74, an American-born international Hindu leader, publisher of Hinduism...