German geologist Johannes Walther (1860–1937) was instrumental in the development of stratigraphy. Walther's two-volume work, Modern Lithogenesis, published in 1883 and 1884 was a pioneering work in classical sedimentary analysis. Walther...
The term facies was introduced by the Swiss geologist Amanz Gressly in 1838 and was part of his significant contribution to the foundations of modern stratigraphy (see Cross and Homewood 1997), which replaced the earlier notions of...
Newport Beach, Calif. -A rare instance of cutaneous pseudolymphoma presenting as leonine facies was recently diagnosed in Southern California and treated successfully with a prolonged prednisone taper, says Rebecca Scudiero, M.D., a resident in the division of dermatology, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA....
The test for proving age-based employment discrimination set forth in McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green should be modified to address the reduction-in-force context by allowing evidence that job duties were reassigned to a younger employee to meet the prima facie burden. The McDonnell test...
said he suspected that the person behind the effort to strip Lieberman of his registration as a Democrat was a peace activist named Henry Lowendorf. This morning, Lowendorf confirmed in a phone interview that he is indeed leading the charge to kick Lieberman out of...
As many as one million people may have died in North Korea's political prison camps, a British organization claimed Tuesday. The leaders of the reclusive Stalinist state have also committed a range of ''crimes against humanity'' and there are indications that genocide...
