someone with a cool name died this week

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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/17/nyregion/17ovary.html?

Dr. Zoltan Ovary, an immunologist at New York University who conducted groundbreaking experiments that helped establish the mechanism that sets off allergic reactions, died on Sunday at N.Y.U. Medical Center in Manhattan. He was 98.

The cause was pneumonia, said a close friend and colleague, Dr. Susan B. Zolla-Pazner, a professor of pathology at N.Y.U.

In the early 1950's, while working at the Pasteur Institute in Paris and at the University of Rome, Dr. Ovary (pronounced oh-VAH-ree) and other scientists began a series of experiments that resulted in a strong allergic reaction in the skin of guinea pigs.

After introducing a blue dye into the animals' bloodstream, the researchers also injected antibodies into their skin, and subsequently set off a reaction with an antigen, a foreign substance that provokes an immune response. Blue spots appeared on the guinea pigs' skin, a sign that the antibody-antigen reaction had released a histamine and had dilated the blood vessels.

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1. Two cool names. Zoltan sounds like a 90's cartoon character n/t

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2. another one

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=8844093

Philippines' Cardinal Sin, People Power icon, dies

MANILA (Reuters) - Cardinal Jaime Sin, the former archbishop of Manila who played a pivotal role in the ousting of Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos in 1986, died in hospital on Tuesday morning, church officials said.

He was 77 years old and had been suffering from a kidney ailment.

"Jaime Cardinal Sin, archbishop emeritus, died early this morning," Sin's spokeswoman, Peachy Yamsuan, told reporters.

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