OBIT: /Ruth Benerito cotton chemist of permanent press renown

OBIT: Widely available since the mid-1960s,wrinkle-free cotton is considered one of the most significant technological developments of the 20th century. For her role, Dr. Benerito was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2008 http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/08/business/ruth-benerito-cotton-chemist-of-permanent-press-renown-dies-at-97.html?ref=todayspaper

OBIT: Herman Wallace held 41 years in solitary dies at 71

“One of the final things that Herman said to us,” his lawyers said in a statement, “was, ‘I am free. I am free.’ ” http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/05/us/herman-wallace-held-41-years-in-solitary-dies-at-71.html?ref=todayspaper

OBIT – Honig

“There’s a sense that, as we get to know more and more about Honig, all his great scholarship and creativity was really a shield against a world in which he was awfully unhappy,” http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/22/movies/alan-berliners-first-cousin-once-removed.html?ref=todayspaper

OBIT Jeffrey Babbitt

“He saw the world in a different way,” Mr. Anakanu said. “The hidden magic in the world. The beauty in things.”  http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/19/nyregion/jeffrey-babbitt-who-saw-the-hidden-magic-in-the-world-is-buried.html?ref=todayspaper

OBIT: William Glasser – on Choice

My question is always, ‘What are you going to do about your life, beginning today?’ http://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/09/05/us/william-glasser-88-psychiatrist-who-promoted-mental-health-as-a-choice-dies.html?client=ms-android-sprint-us&source=android-launcher-search&q=new%20york%20times&=&ref=todayspaper&

OBIT: Cultural Morality

“He was interested in the way in which our humanity was grounded in very primitive aspects of ourselves —our need to think in terms of myth, narrative, the stories we tell about who we are as a people —and in our capacity for rational thought.”

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/08/07/us/robert-bellah-sociologist-of-religion-who-mapped-the-american-soul-dies-at-86.html?ref=todayspaper&

OBIT: Virginia Johnson of Masters & Johnson

OBIT: Virginia (ironic) Johnson (doubly ironic) of Masters & Johnson  http://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/07/26/us/virginia-johnson-masterss-collaborator-in-sex-research-dies-at-88.html?ref=todayspaper&