The Greatest, Muhammad Ali, dies at 74

She lived near the Delaware River waterfront on Bank Avenue for 50 years and routinely opened her home and property to family and friends on holidays, and sailors and spectators during regattas.

She was viewed as a bard of the environment, a 20th century Henry David Thoreau.

His mother, Mary, wanted him to be a doctor. So, after she died when he was six, he went on to earn a dental degree at Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tenn.

“He was instrumental in the healing process for so many veterans that it is hard to fathom the reach of his influence,” a colleague said in a tribute.

"He dressed every spangly woman in show business," author Frank Caro said.

He said in a documentary: “I think that my entire motivation and execution and philosophy can be two words: ‘Hey, look.’”

She grew up in New York, lived in Swarthmore and Philadelphia for more than 50 years, and taught a variety of classes at Temple from 1974 to her retirement in 2011.

He earned the nickname Hit Machine for collecting a record 3,085 of them in a long career than stretched from the late 1950s to the early ’80s.

At Rutgers, she mentored hundreds of doctoral students regarding academic requirements and clinical procedures, and supervised a community mental health clinic.

Prolific writer and veteran teacher Bennett Fairorth was looking forward to a 100th birthday party with former students, his brother said.

He joined the district attorney’s office in 1960, worked as assistant district attorney in the major trials unit, and handled hundreds of cases involving murder, assault, robbery, and other crimes.

A fellowship in India after graduation challenged Steinem — and transformed her

His sultry baritone, coifed hair, and funky songs about romance — notably “Let’s Straighten It Out” — made him a musical fixture of the 1970s and ’80s

She served as editor-in-chief of Ms. magazine for five years and helped organize one of the first protests of the Miss America pageant.

He played on at least 188 albums in a career spanning seven decades.

He championed what he called “the two cities, one waterfront strategy” and was especially adept, former colleagues said, at marshaling funds and projects in Philadelphia and Camden.

Dubbed America’s best singer by Time magazine in 2001, Ms. Wilson was best known for her genre-bending voice.

With her trademark streaked hair parted down the middle and large aviator glasses, Ms. Steinem was a hugely recognizable presence wherever she went.

She joined Penn’s School of Nursing in 1980, took charge of its new primary care nursing unit, and became director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation primary care nurse practitioner program.

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Today's advice from Dear Abby.

Gone are the years when internet fame was within reach for a teenager filming dance routines in a bedroom, or a parent teaching recipes from a kitchen. Danger can draw views but can also backfire.

But reliever Jonathan Bowlan left the game with right groin tightness and will be evaluated further Friday.

Health officials said the potential exposure took place in a NICU and other locations on Sept. 11 at the hospital at 3401 Civic Center Blvd.

The complaint was filed Thursday in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas.