Posted on 02/15/2002 8:14:22 PM PST by gd124
DETECTIVES were last night trying to unravel the circumstances in which a leading university research scientist was found dead at his blood-spattered and apparently ransacked home.
The body of Ian Langford, 40, a senior Fellow at the University of East Anglia’s Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment, was discovered on Monday night by police and ambulancemen. The body was naked from the waist down and partly wedged under a chair. It is understood that doors to the terraced house were locked.
A post-mortem examination failed to establish how Dr Langford, who lived alone in the house in Norwich, died.
Dr Langford began working at the university in 1993 after gaining his PhD in childhood leukaemia and infection following a first-class honours degree in environmental sciences. He worked most recently as a senior researcher assessing risk to the environment.
Professor Kerry Turner, director of the centre, said: “We are all very shocked by this appalling news. Ian was without doubt one of Europe’s leading experts on environmental risk, specialising in links between human health and environmental risk. He was known for his work on the effects on health of bathing water and air pollution, for example. He was one of the most brilliant colleagues I have ever had.”
That was my first thought too. I try very hard to be a practical conservative. Tin Foil is not a part of my wardrobe. I try to look at every situation objectively and logically, as best as I can. I consider the source, and take everything with a grain of salt. But these deaths are odd and I don't know what to think. Strange so many scientists are dying under mysterious circumstances
Could you provide a link, please?
Does anyone else have the feeling that we're just living in a Tom Clancy novel?
In Chicago it occasionally happens to a vistor who cruises in a picks up some of the "rough trade" that gets a little too rough.
That's almost the way I remember it being taught to us:
Once is happenstance.
Twice is coincidence.
Three times is Enemy Action.
That, and "Incoming fire has right of way"
In Liberty,
David
Just a history note, in 1972 the Mississippi River was 26 miles wide at Memphis from November to January of '73.
It's I-40 that crosses the Big River on the Hernando Desoto Bridge. I-55 is the road south into Mississippi, to the Tunica casinos, among other delights.
I missed the '73 flood, but was at St Louis for the 1993 rainy season. I don't know about 26 miles across, but there were many flood areas where the opposite *shore* couldn't be seen.
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Yep. These guys were not obeying them.
They were suppose to send out dire warnings about the earth being destroyed by humans, but they didn't want to lie . Their research has has been proving the opposite.
Guess they thought they'd better shut them up now, before their reports get published.
Your foolish comment was worthy of MurrayMom and far stupider than your usual posts.
During the time Scumbaggus Impeachimus was befouling the Oval office there were millions upon millions of deaths only a few dozen were ever attributed to him by the righteous Clinton Haters. Though I understand his role in the deaths of 1000s across the world through HIV and hepetitis infections facilitated by his fund raising and the deaths of more 1000s in Africa due to his bombing of one of its largest phamaceutical factories, I haven't included these in the totals on the Clinton Death List.
Let me state for the record that I am NOT Hypoxyphillic, and if I'm found dead in similar conditions, someone please use my estate money to hire a GOOD private investigator?
Thank you.
In Liberty,
David
Ummmm.....There's an easier way to acomplish this without hanging yourself.
What the......??????
He couldn't have been too smart, doesn't everybody know one cannot bathe water?
Oops, I just remembered, when I was 8 and my sister was 10, she asked my grandmother to make some snow ice-cream; my grandmother told her that the snow was dirty. My sister asked, "Can't you wash it first?" (True story)
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