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Heart disease remains leading cause of death as key health risk factors continue to rise | American Heart Association
Heart disease remains leading cause of death as key health risk factors continue to rise Fueled by ongoing increases in high blood pressure, obesity and other major risk factors, heart disease continues to kill more people in the U.S. than any other cause, according to the American Heart Association’s 2025 Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics.…
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Greg Gumbel, trailblazing CBS Sports broadcast legend, dies at 78
Greg Gumbel – Gumbel covered some of sports’ biggest moments over his 52-year career By Austin Nivison Dec 27, 2024 at 7:35 pm ET • 4 min read Gumbel covered some of sports’ biggest moments over his 52-year career Source: Greg Gumbel, trailblazing CBS Sports broadcast legend, dies at 78
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Jimmy Carter, 39th US president and noted humanitarian, has died
By Susan Page, December 29, 2024 Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States and a global force for peace after his presidency, has died at 100. Source: Jimmy Carter, 39th US president and noted humanitarian, has died
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Q&A: Columnist Steve Lopez and the ‘spiritual side’ of retirement | CNBC
Published Sat, Oct 22 20229:00 AM EDT, Aditi Shrikant@Aditi_Shrikant Steve Lopez knows he is running out of time. Lopez, a Los Angeles Times columnist and four-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, isn’t collapsing into the grave just yet, but he is 69, with two artificial knees and a pacemaker. “Although this is a scary thought, when you…
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In memory of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II – Britain Magazine | The official magazine of Visit Britain | Best of British History, Royal Family, Travel and Culture
As the news of the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II breaks, we pay tribute to her remarkable life and reign By Henrietta Easton, September, 2022 On the afternoon of 8 September 2022, Queen Elizabeth II, Britain’s longest-reigning monarch, sadly passed away at Balmoral, her home in the Scottish Highlands. Queen of the United…
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Did Ernest Hemingway Succumb to CTE? PBS Doc Explores His Ill-Fated Concussions | THE WRAP
The great American novelist died more than 40 years before the discovery of the degenerative brain disease Jeremy Bailey | April 9, 2021 @ 9:16 PM In the beginning of the end for Ernest Hemingway, as a 1954 trip to Africa is called in the new PBS documentary “Hemingway,” the great American novelist breaks his skull…
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How to Practice | The New Yorker
By Ann Patchett, March 1, 2021 I wanted to get rid of my possessions, because possessions stood between me and death. I started thinking about getting our house in order when Tavia’s father died. Tavia, my friend from early childhood (and youth, and middle age, and these years on the downhill slalom), grew up in unit…
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A Death in the Afternoon | The New Yorker
A Death in the Afternoon, By Tobias Wolff, February 20, 2021 On July 2, 1961, I was sitting in the parking lot at Convair Astronautics in San Diego, listening to music on the car radio while my older brother, Geoffrey, interviewed for a job with the company. Our father had been working there, but had…


