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Amedeo Capelli, an Italian sculptor, makes tiny, whimsical hand-operated automatons: Shrimp play instruments, or mice pirates carry swords. “The best part of my work,” Capelli, 31, said, “is to see a piece of wood that comes to life.”

Lives lived: Olga Murray rescued thousands of Nepalese girls and young women from bonded slavery and fed hungry children. She died at 98.

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