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Jack McAuliffe, Who Brewed a Craft Beer Revolution, Dies at 80
His New Albion Brewing Company, founded in 1976, was considered the first microbrewery. It set the model for thousands more to come.
Marina von Neumann Whitman Dead: International Trade Expert Was 90
She was the first woman to serve on the White House Council of Economic Advisers. At General Motors, she became one of the highest-ranking women…
A New, Full-Bodied Fraud Comes in a Whisky Barrel
Small investors in Britain and Ireland have fallen prey to companies selling casks that turn out to be untraceable or nonexistent.
Whiskey Fraud Strikes Britain and Ireland
Small investors in Britain and Ireland have fallen prey to companies selling casks that turn out to be untraceable or nonexistent.
Jeffrey Bruce Klein, a Founder and Editor of Mother Jones, Dies at 77
He was one of four journalists who started the muckraking progressive magazine in 1976. He returned as its editor in chief in the 1990s.
Loretta Ford, ‘Mother’ of the Nurse Practitioner Field, Dies at 104
She transformed nursing by making it an area of clinical practice and research and recasting nurses as colleagues of doctors, not assistants.
Jean Jennings, Who Wrote With Verve About Cars, Dies at 70
A cabdriver and mechanic before becoming a journalist, she brought personality and adventure to a once-staid genre. She once won a demolition derby and motorcycled…
James Arthur Ray, Self-Help Guide Whose Retreat Became Deadly, Dies at 67
A rising star among New Age motivational speakers, he was brought down by a disaster during one of his retreats in Arizona, where three people…
Gerd Heidemann, Journalist Duped by Fake Hitler Diaries, Dies at 93
What was supposed to be the crowning scoop of his career became his downfall when a trove of notebooks he acquired in Germany turned out…
Harold W. Sims Jr., Whose Museum Honored the House Cat, Dies at 89
He displayed some 10,000 cat-themed artifacts at the American Museum of the House Cat in North Carolina, which welcomed several thousand people a year.