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 | | His father, Emmett "E.C." Roberts, a stock producer who started Roberts Rodeo Co., frequently held impromptu rodeos on the family's ranch near Strong City, Kan. His older brother, Ken, was a three-time world champion bull rider, and his sister, Marge, was a champion bronco rider. |
 | | Donald Oscar Pederson, 79, who laid the groundwork for advances in the design of complex integrated circuits, died Dec. 25 at a health care center in Concord, Calif. He had Parkinson's disease. |
 | | Pederson, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley, won international acclaim for his contributions to the microelectronics industry. |
| www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A61983-2005Jan9.html (670 words) |
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