Introduction: Reflections on Nancy Abelmann's Legacy

Introduction. Evolution on Pacific islands: Darwin's legacy.

Charles Darwin stepped ashore on the Pacific Island of San Cristobal in the Galápagos archipelago on 17 September 1835. No doubt grateful to be on the steady, dry land, the young Darwin was at first unimpressed by the landscape ‘Nothing could be less inviting than the first appearance’ (Darwin 1839, p. 454). Nevertheless, Darwin was to make important inferences from the observations of island b...

Reflections on PATCO’s Legacy: Labor’s Strategic Challenges Persist

Excerpt] The 1981 strike by over 11,000 members of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) stands out as a symbol of union decline. This dismal legacy is a product of President Ronald Reagan’s harsh response to the job action, an ultimatum for controllers to return to work followed by wholesale permanent replacement of the strikers. Although PATCO’s members were federal em...

Introduction: Some Reflections on the Federalism Debate

Reflections on 20 Years of the ACL an Introduction

Our society was founded on 13 June 1962 as the Association for Machine Translation and Computational Linguistics. Consequently, this 1982 Annual Meeting represents our 20th anniversary. We did, Of course, change our name to the Association for Computational Linguistics in 1968, but that did not affect the continuity of the organization. The date of this panel, 17 June, misses the real anniversa...

Nancy Knowlton

Alexander Sulakvelidze, Chief Scientist at Intralytix and one of its co-founders, says phages are a very safe and natural way of protecting food against bacteria. “The concept of using phages for improving food safety is based on simply applying phages back onto the foods in the right concentration, at the right place, and at the right time,” Sulakvelidze explains. “Thus, applying lytic phages ...