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1 week ago |
nytimes.com | Jere Longman
He worked with a team at the University of Utah to create a mechanical heart. It was later used in patients awaiting an organ transplant. Dr. Robert K. Jarvik, the principal designer of the first permanent artificial heart implanted in a human - a procedure that became a subject of great public fascination and fierce debate about medical ethics - died on Monday at his home in Manhattan. He was 79. His wife, the writer Marilyn vos Savant, said the cause was complications of Parkinson's disease.
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1 week ago |
seattletimes.com | Jere Longman
Nino Benvenuti, an Italian boxer who won the welterweight title at the 1960 Rome Olympics and was named the outstanding fighter of those Games over a certain teenage light-heavyweight named Cassius Clay, better known as Muhammad Ali, died Tuesday in Rome. He was 87. His death was announced by the Italian Olympic Committee, which did not specify where he died.
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1 week ago |
sacbee.com | Jere Longman
Nino Benvenuti, an Italian boxer who won the welterweight title at the 1960 Rome Olympics and was named the outstanding fighter of those Games over a certain teenage light-heavyweight named Cassius Clay, better known as Muhammad Ali, died May 20 in Rome. He was 87. His death was announced by the Italian Olympic Committee, which did not specify where he died.
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1 week ago |
nytimes.com | Jere Longman
A 1960 gold medalist in Rome, he overshadowed a young Muhammad Ali, then known as Cassius Clay. He was celebrated as much for his charisma as his boxing skills. Nino Benvenuti, an Italian boxer who won the welterweight title before an indulgent crowd at the 1960 Rome Olympics, and who, perhaps benefiting from a home-ring advantage, was named the outstanding fighter of those Games over acertain teenage light-heavyweight named Cassius Clay, better known as Muhammad Ali, died on Tuesday in Rome.
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4 weeks ago |
editorandpublisher.com | Jere Longman
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