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- Michael Crichton, Author of ?Jurassic Park? and Other Thrillers, Dies at 66
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  Michael Crichton, whose technological thrillers like "The Andromeda Strain" and "Jurassic Park" dominated best-seller lists for decades and were translated into Hollywood megahits, died on Tuesday in Los Angeles. He was 66 and lived in Santa Monica, Calif.
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- Obituary: Grace Paley and political culture
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  Grace Paley, the American short-story writer and political activist, died on August 22, aged 84. She described the lives of ordinary New Yorkers in the postwar period more ably than almost any other writer of her generation. She wrote in an ironic tone that implied, at its best, that there were historical processes latent within the travails of daily life.
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Michael Crichton, Author of ?Jurassic Park? and Other Thrillers, Dies at 66

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