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    • Avedis Donabedian, Professor of Public Health at the University of Michigan, will retire in May. Donabedian joined the university in 1961 as an associate professor of public health economics. He was born in Beirut and studied at the American University of Beirut and the Harvard School of Public Health.

    Klaus Fuchs, 76, the German-born nuclear physicist who was jailed in the 1950s for giving U.S. and British atomic bomb secrets to the Soviet Union, died January 28. Fuchs was born near Frankfurt, became active in the anti-Hitler movement, and was a German Communist. He worked on the British atomic bomb project at the University of Birmingham and the U.S. atomic bomb project in New York and Los Alamos, N.M. Fuchs confessed to passing information about these projects to Soviet agents. After serving nine years in jail in England, he was released and became deputy director of...

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