In 1989, Yan visited student-led protesters who were on a hunger strike and told them they were hurting chances for reform, urging them to go home.
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Susan Love, surgeon who crusaded against breast cancer, dies at 75
Love was among the country’s most prominent advocates for breast cancer research and treatment, and she co-founded the National Breast Cancer Coalition.
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Harry Markowitz, Nobel economist who changed investing, dies at 95
His ideas about risk and diversification became the basis for modern investment strategies.
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Joseph Pedott, entrepreneur who sparked Chia Pet craze, dies at 91
He turned the Chia Pet and Clapper light switch into retail sensations with jingles – “Ch-ch-ch-Chia”; “Clap on, clap off!” – that have echoed in ears for generations.
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Peg Yorkin, feminist leader and philanthropist, dies at 96
As the longtime chair and co-founder of the Feminist Majority Foundation, she urged supporters to join her in promoting women’s equality and empowerment.
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Ben Helfgott, Holocaust survivor and Olympic weightlifter, dies at 93
His entire life was a show of strength, from his endurance as a teenager in Nazi concentration camps to his exploits on the world’s athletic stage.
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Robert Gottlieb, celebrated literary editor of Toni Morrison and Robert Caro, dies at 92
Gottlieb had one of the greatest runs of any editor after World War II and helped shape the modern publishing canon.
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Roger Payne, scientist who discovered whales can sing, dies at 88
Payne made the discovery in 1967 during a research trip to Bermuda in which a Navy engineer provided him with a recording of curious underwater sounds documented while listening for Russian submarines.
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Don Bateman, a force in aviation safety, dies at 91
He invented a cockpit warning system alerting pilots about potential deadly obstacles in their path over land and sea.
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Harald zur Hausen, who found virus link to cervical cancer, dies at 87
The research led by zur Hausen into the human papillomavirus, or HPV, turned a theory that was once on the fringes of scientific acceptance into new fields of ontological study.