Larry E. Smith, co-founder ofWorld Englishes, dies at 73

Forensic dentistry expert dies at 87.

English): The identification of a murderer and the eventual conviction was largely due to forensic dentistry and in particular the use of bite marks on the victim compared with casts of the teeth of the accused. The Bundy case has become notorious in American legal circles. MeSH: Bites, Human -history (major); Forensic Dentistry -history; History, 20th Century; Homicide -history (major); Humans...

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Larry Abbott

Larry Abbott Columbia University Larry Abbott is the William Bloor Professor of Theoretical Neuroscience at Columbia University. He received his PhD in physics from Brandeis University in 1977 and worked in theoretical particle physics at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, at CERN (the European center for particle physics), and as a physics faculty member at Brandeis. Abbott began a transi...

Larry Weiskrantz

He found himself at loggerheads in the European Commission with Joe Borg, the European fisheries commissioner from Malta. Borg was insisting that time be allowed for a bluefin recovery plan which had been agreed by Iccat. But its poor record on protecting stocks has angered conservationists. One of Dimas’s officials said: “They need to come up with conservation protection measures that live up ...

World Englishes in world religions

In the beginning was the Word. Often quoted, these opening words from the Gospel according to John nonetheless show that the relationship between language and religion goes beyond intimacy to identity. Whether this is taken as a specific moment in the theorization of one religion, the culmination of a particular line of thinking, or a more general truth about how humans grasp the essence of the...