http://www.newser.com/2008 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorThu, 28 Aug 2008 7:45:10 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/35864/genre-setting-travel-author-dies-at-47.html?refid=rss_all_defaultDave Freeman, co-author of 100 Things to Do Before You Die , died at age 47 after falling and hitting his head at his California home last week, the Los Angeles Times reports. Published in 1999, the free-spirited travel guide, among the first to offer a sight-seeing agenda based on adventure and mortality, spawned dozens of imitators in other genres.http://www.newser.com/story/35864/genre-setting-travel-author-dies-at-47.html?refid=rss_all_defaultTue, 26 Aug 2008 11:44:56 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/35757/thomas-weller-who-won-nobel-for-polio-work-dead-at-93.html?refid=rss_all_defaultThomas Weller, whose research on polio won him a share of a Nobel Prize in 1954, died this weekend at 93, the Boston Globe reports. Weller, along with colleagues John Enders and Frederick Robbins, discovered that the polio virus preyed on muscles, not nerve tissue as had been previously thought. Their cultures paved the way for the Salk and Sabin vaccines.http://www.newser.com/story/35757/thomas-weller-who-won-nobel-for-polio-work-dead-at-93.html?refid=rss_all_defaultMon, 25 Aug 2008 14:27:09 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/35453/nfl-union-chief-upshaw-dies-of-cancer-at-63.html?refid=rss_all_defaultGene Upshaw, the Hall of Fame offensive lineman who, during a quarter century as head of the players union, helped get NFL players free agency and the riches that came with it, has died at 63, the AP reports. Upshaw died last night at his home in Lake Tahoe, Calif., of pancreatic cancer, which was diagnosed only last Sunday, the NFL Players Association said today.http://www.newser.com/story/35453/nfl-union-chief-upshaw-dies-of-cancer-at-63.html?refid=rss_all_defaultThu, 21 Aug 2008 9:30:29 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/35383/ohio-rep-tubbs-jones-dies-after-brain-aneurysm.html?refid=rss_all_defaultOhio Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones, the first black woman to represent Ohio in Congress, has died of a brain aneurysm, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reports. Tubbs Jones, 58, suffered a brain hemorrhage while driving her car near Cleveland yesterday. The five-term congresswoman, a staunch supporter of Hillary Clinton, was also the first black woman to serve on the influential Ways and Means Committee.http://www.newser.com/story/35383/ohio-rep-tubbs-jones-dies-after-brain-aneurysm.html?refid=rss_all_defaultWed, 20 Aug 2008 18:18:09 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/35372/mao-successor-hua-dies-at-87.html?refid=rss_all_defaultHua Guofeng, the man who succeeded Mao Zedong as China’s second Communist leader, died today at age 87, the Daily Telegraph reports. Guofeng was most noted for arresting the “Gang of Four,” a group of radicals, led by Mao’s widow, bent on miring China in isolated class-struggle. The decisive arrests may have staved off unrest and civil war, and paved the way for moderates like Deng Xiaoping.http://www.newser.com/story/35372/mao-successor-hua-dies-at-87.html?refid=rss_all_defaultWed, 20 Aug 2008 12:24:55 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/35188/derby-winning-filly-dead-at-31.html?refid=rss_all_defaultGenuine Risk, one of only three fillies to win the Kentucky Derby, died this morning in Virginia. She was 31. The 1980 Derby winner died peacefully after eating a hearty breakfast and being turned out in her paddock, said an administrator at Newstead Farm, adding that the chestnut mare had not been ill. Genuine Risk was the only filly to finish in the top three in each of the Triple Crown races.http://www.newser.com/story/35188/derby-winning-filly-dead-at-31.html?refid=rss_all_defaultMon, 18 Aug 2008 16:25:35 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/35010/music-giant-jerry-wexler-dead-at-91.html?refid=rss_all_defaultJerry Wexler, a music industry giant who coined the term "rhythm and blues" and worked to bring black popular music into the mainstream, died today at age 91, the New York Times reports. Wexler, a producer at Atlantic Records in its heyday, worked with new artists such as Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, and Wilson Pickett. Unusual for the time, he gave the artists great control in the studio, allowing them to forge singular sounds.http://www.newser.com/story/35010/music-giant-jerry-wexler-dead-at-91.html?refid=rss_all_defaultFri, 15 Aug 2008 12:01:01 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/34926/oldest-working-ceo-dead-at-107.html?refid=rss_all_defaultJack A. Weil, the Henry Ford of Western shirts who was thought to be the oldest working CEO, died yesterday at age 107, the Denver Post reports. “Papa Jack,” as he was known in the Denver community, popularized the Western shirt as we know it. The sawtooth pocket and diamond snap design of his Rockmount Ranch Wear apparel is the longest continuous style produced in the country.http://www.newser.com/story/34926/oldest-working-ceo-dead-at-107.html?refid=rss_all_defaultThu, 14 Aug 2008 14:30:49 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/34591/palestinian-poet-dead-at-67.html?refid=rss_all_defaultPalestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish died yesterday from heart surgery complications in Houston at age 67, the Los Angeles Times reports. Considered Palestine’s unofficial poet laureate, Darwish penned the territory’s symbolic Declaration of Independence in 1988 and depicted life under Israeli rule in his work. "He was the Palestinian conscience," a Palestinian MP told the Daily Telegraph .http://www.newser.com/story/34591/palestinian-poet-dead-at-67.html?refid=rss_all_defaultSun, 10 Aug 2008 16:50:36 CDT