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If you take L-dopa for Parkinson's disease, use a beta blocker for high blood pressure or angina, or even just pop a couple of ibuprofen once in a while when your knees or hips are sore, you owe William S. Knowles a debt of gratitude.
Louise Margaret Briggs, who died May 31 at age 95, never held a paying job in her life. But that didn't stop Briggs, a resident of Sapulpa, Okla., from working tirelessly to help those who needed it most - from physically and mentally disabled children and cancer patients to residents of the Ranch…
If you watched TV in the 1960s, you may remember Frank Cady as Hooterville general-store proprietor Sam Drucker in the hit sitcoms Green Acres and Petticoat Junction, or in his recurring role as Doc Williams in The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet. But chances are, you saw Cady, who died last Friday…
When we think of philanthropy, it's usually as something that high-profile corporate moguls do with the spare millions (or billions) that they don't spend on mansions, yachts and private jets. We tend to overlook another, less common but even more inspiring category of givers: ordinary middle-class…
Science fiction great Ray Bradbury, who died this morning in Los Angeles at age 91, started his writing career in the early 1940s, in an era when radios with tubes were state-of-the-art technology. But Bradbury envisioned a different world, one in which scientific and technological advances…