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The first time Jean Jennings encountered the Mexican federal police, she had just arrested one of her friends for public…

In early 1988, British neuropsychiatrist Peter Fenwick found himself drowning in letters from people who believed they had survived an…

Bruce Bastian, founder of WordPerfect Corporation, whose word processor was the favorite writing tool in the early days of personal…

V. Craig Jordan, a pharmacologist whose discovery that a failed contraceptive, tamoxifen, could block the growth of breast cancer cells…

Taro Akebono, a Hawaiian-born sumo wrestler who became the sport’s first foreign grand champion and helped revive the sport’s popularity…

Margaret Grade, a neuropsychologist from California who made a sharp career turn to open a welcoming, eclectic inn near the…

Kent Campbell, a defining figure in the global fight against malaria — mostly in Africa, where he led an innovative…

After being paralyzed by polio at age 6, Paul Alexander was confined for much of his life to a yellow…

William Whitworth, who wrote revealing profiles in The New Yorker giving voice to its idiosyncratic subjects and handled the prose…

Peter Anthony Morgan, the lead singer of the reggae band Morgan Heritage, a Grammy-winning group formed by singer Denroy Morgan’s…