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Back in 1980, an op-ed article in the New York Times laid out what the author saw as an escalating crisis that threatened the nation's health care system: a nursing shortage.
Robert H. Bork, who died on Dec. 19 at age 85 in Arlington, Va., is most famous for what he didn't do: sit on the U.S. Supreme Court.
Hal Schaefer was an accomplished pianist, composer of movie scores and vocal coach to Hollywood stars - so multitalented, in fact, that he not only arranged the rendition of "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend" for the classic 1953 Marilyn Monroe film Gentlemen Prefer Blondes but also coached Monroe…
When U.S. Sen. Daniel K. Inouye was elected to the Senate in 1962, a fellow Hawaiian named Barack Obama was still in diapers. The Democrat of Japanese ancestry went on to hold that office for an astonishing 49 years, making him the second-longest serving U.S. senator, surpassed only by the late…
These days, if you're behind the wheel with alcohol on your breath and you get stopped by police, you're in big trouble. Cindy Lightner and the organization she founded in 1980, Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD), deserve a lot of the credit for that, by raising public awareness of how drunk…
Whether you like using those self-service checkouts at supermarkets and drugstores, or still prefer to have a human clerk scan your purchases, thank Norman Joseph Woodland for the ease and convenience of buying things in the modern world.
Today, moms-to-be usually see their progeny on a sonogram about halfway through a pregnancy, months before they give birth. Back in 1963, however, such sophisticated imaging technology wasn't yet available. So when Mary Ann Fischer, a 30-year-old women in Aberdeen, S.D., got exceptionally big seven…
Ravi Shankar is most famous to Americans as the sitar player who in the 1960s influenced such rock superstars as the Beatles' George Harrison. But the virtuoso of traditional Indian music, who died Dec. 11 at age 92 in southern California, had a broader artistic and spiritual purpose than merely…
If you've done a Google search today, you may have been puzzled by the odd illustration on the search engine site's web page. Who is that woman in the Victorian gown and hair in a bun, scribbling what appear to be equations?
Next time you turn on a local TV news broadcast and see an aerial view of a police car chase, a traffic jam or a burning building, thank John D. Silva.