Duchovny finishes rehab

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Duchovny finishes rehab

An attorney for David Duchovny, 48, who plays a sex-obsessed author and Lothario on Showtime's "Californication," said the actor has completed treatment and checked out of a rehabilitation facility for treatment of sex addiction. Duchovny voluntarily entered the facility in late August.

Upbeat

A record gift to Harvard

Hansjorg Wyss, a business-school alumnus, has given Harvard University its largest individual donation: $125 million to start a bioengineering institute. The mission of the Hansjorg Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering is to discover the engineering principles nature uses to build living things and use that information to create devices and technologies for medicine. Wyss earned his MBA from Harvard in 1965.

Police blotter

Dip in the moat

Police have apprehended a man who went skinny dipping in a moat ringing the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Tuesday. The man, believed to be a 40-year-old Briton living in Spain, jumped into the moat, then threw rocks and splashed water at two policemen who chased him in a rowboat as a crowd of about 300 looked on, a Tokyo Metropolitan Police official said.

Passages

Jose Luis Garza, 47, a 990-pound, bedridden man who had appealed on Mexican television for help tackling his weight problem, died Tuesday of heart failure in Juarez, Mexico. Garza had been in contact with the world's fattest man, fellow Mexican Manuel Uribe of Monterrey, whose record weight of 1,230 pounds earned him a place in the 2008 Guinness Book of Records, and who has claimed to have lost around 550 pounds by following the Zone Diet invented by Dr. Barry Sears.

Irene Dailey, 88, a late-blooming actress perhaps best known for her roles in television soap operas and for her portrayal of the quick-witted, sensitive mother, Nettie Cleary, in the 1964 Tony Award-winning drama "The Subject Was Roses," died Sept. 24 in Santa Rosa, Calif., of colon cancer.

Lloyd Thaxton, 81, the host of a popular Los Angeles TV dance show in the 1960s who memorably injected a visual zaniness into his daily rock 'n' roll party for teenagers, died Sunday of multiple myeloma in Los Angeles.

Today in History

1871: The Great Chicago Fire erupted.

1918: Sgt. Alvin C. York almost single-handedly killed 25 German soldiers and helped capture 132 in the Argonne Forest in France.

1956: Don Larsen pitched the only perfect game in a World Series to date as the New York Yankees beat the Brooklyn Dodgers in Game 5, 2-0.

Today's Birthdays

Actor Paul Hogan, 69. The Rev. Jesse Jackson, 67. Comedian Chevy Chase, 65. Author R.L. Stine, 65. Actress Sigourney Weaver, 59. Comedian Darrell Hammond, 53. Gospel/R&B singer CeCe Winans, 44. Actress Emily Procter, 40. Actor-screenwriter Matt Damon, 38. Actor Nick Cannon, 28.

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