Richard Sandomir

He had clients like Tony Curtis and Kim Novak, but his biggest score came when he negotiated the “King of All Media’s” landmark contract with Sirius Satellite Radio.

He traced the dramatic transformation of the Lower East Side from his building, where he lived for 50 years. He also assisted the cartoonist Saul Steinberg.

Tom Korologos, an influential Republican lobbyist and adviser whose specialty was shepherding presidential nominees through their Senate confirmation hearings, died July 26 at his home in Washington. He was 91.

He was the first to touch the edge of space and later to go beyond it in two different aircraft, an X-15 and a shuttle. But the moon, to his disappointment, proved out of reach.

A biological anthropologist, she worked with colleagues to confirm for the first time that love is hard-wired in the brain.

NYTIMES - Helen Fisher, a renowned biological anthropologist, passed away at 79 due to endometrial cancer.

Simon Verity, a British stone carver and artisan whose bevy of works included the statues that adorn the western facade of the Cathedral of St.

Prodded by Oliver Sacks, he wrote a humane, award-winning book about the condition. A music maven, he also wrote liner notes for the Grateful Dead and his friend David Crosby.

She started a nonprofit in New York City in 1971 by asking stores if they would offer reduced prices for people 65 and over. Thousands of retailers said yes.

With experience in mechanical engineering, he conceived many of the techniques and tools that have revolutionized minimally invasive operations and procedures.