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...PIONEER CAR STEREOS The conceit is amusingly elaborate. A five-ad print campaign titled "The Road-Kill Diaries" notes the afterlife insights of critters flattened by automobiles with distractingly good sound systems. Sample entry: "Spent the morning burrowing. Heard the sound of some powerful amps. Should've looked both ways...
DEATH REVEALED. THYRA JOHNSTON, 91, inadvertent civil rights pioneer; in Honolulu. Fair-skinned, blue-eyed and one-eighth black, Johnston lived as a white woman in Keene, New Hampshire, with her husband Albert, a black physician who also "passed." Their white neighbors were shocked when Dr. Johnston's application for a naval commission in 1940 led him to reveal the couple's racial background. But the small town was ultimately accepting--Dr. Johnston's practice actually increased--and the story became the basis of the 1949 film Lost Boundaries...
ARRESTED. JAMES BROWN, 67, funk pioneer; for domestic violence, following a 911 call from his wife Adrienne; in Aiken, South Carolina. The Godfather of Soul posted bond and was released...
Antoniades' career as a researcher was marked by a number of important discoveries. He was a pioneer in the field of hormone transport and regulation and was the first to recognize as distinct entities two important polypeptides known as insulin-like growth factor (IGF) and platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF...
Introduced in the U.S. by SmithKline Beecham in 1977 and under patent protection for 17 years, Tagamet was the pioneer acid blocker. Worldwide it has earned the company a total of $14 billion and was the first drug ever to chalk up $1 billion in sales in a single year. But in the late 1980s, anticipating the worst when its Tagamet patent ran out in 1994, SmithKline began conducting clinical trials and seeking FDA approval of an over-the-counter version. The wisdom of that decision became evident when Tagamet sales plummeted from $600 million in 1993 to only...