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in NewsRemembering Sandy Robertson Who Helped Create Silicon Valley
A few years after I began Salesforce, I used to be invited to a particular dinner to rejoice a buddy’s marriage. The location was the house of Sandy Robertson, a Silicon Valley legend. I used to be thrilled. I’d all the time needed to satisfy Sandy. A local midwesterner who noticed the tech revolution coming […] More
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in NewsRenowned Chinese-American Physicist Tsung-Dao Lee Dies at 97
TAIPEI, Taiwan — Chinese-American physicist Tsung-Dao Lee, who in 1957 grew to become the second-youngest scientist to obtain a Nobel Prize, died Sunday at his residence in San Francisco at age 97, based on a Chinese college and a analysis heart. Lee, whose work superior the understanding of particle physics, was one of many nice […] More
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in NewsTuskegee Syphilis Study Whistleblower Peter Buxtun Dead at 86
(NEW YORK) — Peter Buxtun, the whistleblower who revealed that the U.S. authorities allowed a whole lot of Black males in rural Alabama to go untreated for syphilis in what grew to become referred to as the Tuskegee research, has died. He was 86. Buxtun died May 18 of Alzheimer’s illness in Rocklin, California, in […] More
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in NewsDr. Ruth Westheimer, America’s Sex Therapist, Dies at 96
NEW YORK — Dr. Ruth Westheimer, the diminutive intercourse therapist who grew to become a pop icon, media star and best-selling writer by means of her frank discuss once-taboo bed room matters, has died. She was 96. Westheimer died on Friday at her dwelling in New York City, surrounded by her household, in keeping with […] More