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Transcript: Remembering Randy Pausch
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- July 26, 2008
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SCOTT SIMON
NPR Weekend Edition - Saturday
07-26-2008
Remembering Randy Pausch
Host: SCOTT SIMON
Time 12:00-1:00 PM
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SCOTT SIMON, host:
Randy Pausch died yesterday at the age of 47 of the pancreatic cancer that he fought, respected, and outlasted even as he died. When Mr. Pausch, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, was diagnosed last fall, he gave what he called a last lecture to about 400 friends, students and faculty. The lecture was videotaped so that his three young children might grow up seeing and hearing him. "I'm dying," he told them. "And yet I'm having fun."
The lecture was reported in The Wall Street Journal, became a sensation on the Internet, and ...