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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…

Soma Golden Behr, a longtime editor at The New York Times who was a centrifuge of story ideas—they flew out…

Dr. Mildred Thornton Stahlman, a Vanderbilt University pediatrician whose research into the deadly lung disease in newborns led to life-saving…

Michael Jackson’s creditor debts and claims at the time of his death in 2009 exceeded $500 million, according to a…

Remo Saraseni, a sculptor, toy inventor and technological visionary best known for creating the Walking Piano that Tom Hanks and…

Akira Endo, a Japanese biochemist whose research on fungi helped lay the groundwork for widely prescribed drugs that lower a…

TD Allman, a freelance journalist who challenged American mythmaking in sharp, personal reporting over five decades on subjects as diverse…

Evan Stark, who studied domestic violence with his wife and then pioneered a concept called “coercive control,” which describes the…