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DIED. PATSY MINK, 74, Hawaii's irrepressibly liberal Democrat and the first Asian-American woman elected to Congress; of viral pneumonia. Mink opposed the Vietnam War and championed gender equality. After 24 years in the House, she had just sailed through a primary vote--one week before her death...
Walter H. Annenberg, media magnate and prolific philanthropist who gave $25 million to Harvard undergraduate education, died yesterday of pneumonia...
...work if it's involuntary? Is something like "delusional disorder" a brain disease or a behavioral problem or both? These debates are far from settled. Sometime in the past decade, it became a requirement of polite conversation to say that schizophrenia and other mental illnesses are "no different" from pneumonia. But the latest neurological research has offered only the roughest idea of the precise mechanism by which a disease such as schizophrenia arises. Scientists are decades away from being able to use a brain scan to diagnose something like Yoder's alleged personality disorders...
...years earlier of the Princess Theatre shows that had inspired Rodgers and Hart to try musical comedy.) Just before the opening, Hart had been on one of his suicidal toots, and when he arrived at the theater an exasperated Rodgers forbade him entrance. Two days later, ill with pneumonia, he was taken to Doctors' Hospital where, three days after that, he died...
...theater and TV screens around the world, schooling a generation in the intricacies of righteous machismo. He made stars of Jimmy Wang Yu, Ti Lung, David Chiang and Alexander Fu Sheng, and mentored his assistant director (later action master) John Woo. When Chang died June 22, at 79, from pneumonia, the Shaw Brothers studios paid for the funeral of its most prolific, pioneering auteur. In Hong Kong, movie spirits are at half-mast...