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• Yale celebrates Noah Webster's 250th birthday
NEW HAVEN, Conn. - The announcement came in 1800 in the back of a Connecticut newspaper just above a farmer's reward for a stray cow. A man named Noah Webster was proposing the first comprehensive "dictionary of the American language." Webster was ...
• McCain has 3 weeks to reverse Obama lead
McCain on Saturday called Lewis' remarks "shocking and beyond the pale." Late Saturday, Lewis said he was not trying to directly compare McCain or Palin to Wallace. "My statement was a reminder to all Americans that toxic language can lead to ...
• Issue of race creeps into presidential campaign
My statement was a reminder to all Americans that toxic language can lead to destructive behavior," he said. In a series of interviews last week, senior Obama advisers offered one explanation for the candidate's relative reluctance to talk about race ...
• Guess what? There's no harm in a little gossip
But Robin Dunbar, a professor of evolutionary anthropology at the University of Oxford, detailed in his book "Grooming, Gossip, and the Evolution of Language" (Harvard University Press) his discovery that a group capable of language (that is, humans ...
• Iraq pressured on future of U.S. troops
But legal immunity for U.S. soldiers under Iraqi law has emerged as the major obstacle, with neither side able to find language to satisfy the other. The U.S. wants the exclusive right to prosecute soldiers accused of crimes. The Iraqis want some form ...