Author: DXO
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GoogObits: Temperament (Dr. Alexander Thomas, 89, Who Studied Human Temperament, Is Dead)
Today is the 4th birthday of my first-born son. He is a great person and being associated with him is one of the great joys of my life. So you can understand why I was excited when I read about the life’s work of Dr. Alexander Thomas, who found that “over the years, almost unnoticeably,…
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How Many People Has Hussein Killed?
By JOHN F. BURNS In the unlit blackness of an October night, it took a flashlight to pick them out: rust-colored butchers’ hooks, 20 or more, each four or five feet long, aligned in rows along the ceiling of a large hangar-like building. In the grimmest fortress in Iraq’s gulag, on the desert floor 20…
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GoogObits: Together (2 Archaeologists, Robert Braidwood and His Wife, Linda Braidwood, Die)
They died of the same disease in the same hospital on the same day, 20 hours apart, just long enough for their former employer to publish his obituary listing her as surviving him.
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GoogObits: Words (Will McDonough, 67, Columnist Who Covered Every Super Bowl, Is Dead)
Obviously, we can say whatever we want. Free country, etc. But we’ve got to remember that what we say has a life of its own, and is repeated and re-purposed and syndicated and Googled and copied and just may end up at a time and place that you wouldn’t want them to be.
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GoogObits: The Uses of Wood (KARL GUSTAV DAHLSTROM, 102)
Karl Gustav Dahlstrom, 102, a carpenter who worked for Anderson Brothers Furniture in Chicago for 30 years and who spent almost every day of his adult life in a wood shop, died Wednesday, Jan. 8, in Windsor Park Manor in Carol Stream of natural causes.