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Writer Arthur C. Clarke dies at 90
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/463931af-12d2-492f-b1d0-13af59a2970b/3710DD73-AB24-4B0F-BD6E-D2D5BBEF6D13/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080318/ap_on_en_ot/obit_clarke" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080318/ap_on_en_ot/obit_clarke" style="font-size: 11px;">news.yahoo.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080318/ap_on_en_ot/obit_clarke"><H1> <DIV class="source"> <A href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/ap/brand/SIG=br2v03;_ylt=AlHgEMMmWgYEc1Xbo_UXu3FnhVID/*http://www.ap.org"><IMG width="106" height="27" border="0" alt="AP" src="http://l.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/us/nws/p/ap_logo_106.png" /></A> </DIV> Writer Arthur C. Clarke dies at 90 </H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080318/ap_on_en_ot/obit_clarke"><P> COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - <SPAN id="lw_1205884244_0" class="yshortcuts">Arthur C. Clarke</SPAN>, a <SPAN id="lw_1205884244_1" class="yshortcuts">visionary science fiction writer</SPAN> who co-wrote "<SPAN id="lw_1205884244_2" class="yshortcuts">2001: A Space Odyssey</SPAN>" and won worldwide acclaim with more than 100 books on space, science and the future, died Wednesday, an aide said. He was 90. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080318/ap_on_en_ot/obit_clarke"><P>Clarke, who had battled debilitating post-polio syndrome since the 1960s, died at 1:30 a.m. in his adopted home of <SPAN id="lw_1205884244_3" class="yshortcuts">Sri Lanka</SPAN> after suffering breathing problems, aide Rohan De Silva said.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080318/ap_on_en_ot/obit_clarke"><P>He was credited with the concept of communications satellites in 1945, decades before they became a reality. Geosynchronous orbits, which keep satellites in a fixed position relative to the ground, are called Clarke orbits.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080318/ap_on_en_ot/obit_clarke"><P>He joined American broadcaster <SPAN id="lw_1205884244_5" class="yshortcuts">Walter Cronkite</SPAN> as commentator on the U.S. Apollo moonshots in the late 1960s.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080318/ap_on_en_ot/obit_clarke"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/news.yahoo.com/img/0E0A8937-A70B-4412-890B-2F385C24A77E" alt="Science fiction writer, Arthur C. Clarke, poses at his home in Colombo, Sri Lanka, in this May 9, 2007 file photo. Clarke, the author of more than 100 books, including '2001: A Space Odyssey', died early Wednesday, March 19, 2008 after suffering from breathing problems. He was 90. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)" /></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/3710DD73-AB24-4B0F-BD6E-D2D5BBEF6D13/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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