In Remembrance...2008


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Jacques Piccard, a scientist and explorer who dove deeper into the ocean than anyone else and who helped invent (with his father) the bathyscape, died yesterday. He was 86.
 


William Stall, a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist who covered California politics and the enviroment for the Los Angeles Times, died Sunday from complications from pulmonary disease. He was 71.
 





Baldev Raj Chopra, one of India's most prominent filmmakers, died today after a long illness. He was 94.

Chopra was known for making socially relevant films with widespread popular appeal.
 


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