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Langdell
U.S. legal educator. Born in New Boston, N.H., he was a schoolteacher before he became a lawyer, after which he practiced law in New York City (1854-70). He was a professor and later dean at Harvard Law School (1870-95). His case method of teaching law, in which students read and discussed original authorities and derived for themselves the principles of the law, eventually became dominant in U.S. law schools.
Lange
U.S. documentary photographer. Born in Hoboken, N.J., she studied photography and opened a portrait studio in San Francisco in 1919. During the Great Depression, her photos of homeless men led to her employment by a federal agency to bring the plight of the poor to public attention. Her photographs were so effective that the government established camps for migrants. Her Migrant Mother (1936) was the most widely reproduced of all Farm Security Administration pictures. She produced several other photo essays, incl. one documenting the World War II internment of Japanese-Americans.
lung
Either of two light, spongy, elastic organs in the chest, used for breathing. Each is enclosed in a membrane (pleura). Contraction of the diaphragm and the muscles between the ribs draw air into the lungs through the trachea, which splits into two primary bronchi, one per lung. Each bronchus branches into secondary bronchi (one per lobe of lung), tertiary bronchi (one per segment of lung), and many bronchioles leading to the pulmonary alveoli. There, oxygen in the inspired gas is exchanged for carbon dioxide from the blood in the surrounding capillaries (see pulmonary circulation). Adequate tissue oxygen supply depends on sufficient distribution of air (ventilation) and blood (perfusion) in the lungs. Lung injuries or diseases (e.g., emphysema, embolism, pneumonia) can affect either or both.
Tangier
Seaport (metro. area pop., 1994: 522,000), N Morocco. Located at the W end of the Strait of Gibraltar, it was first known as an ancient Phoenician trading post, and later became a Carthaginian and then a Roman settlement. After five centuries of Roman rule, it was captured successively by the Vandals, Byzantines, and Arabs. It fell to the Portuguese in 1471; it later passed to the British, who gave it up to Morocco in 1684. When the rest of Morocco became a French protectorate in 1912, Tangier was granted special status; in 1923 it officially became an international city, governed by an international commission. It remained an international zone until it was integrated in 1956 with the independent kingdom of Morocco. It became a free port and royal summer residence in the 1960s. The old town is dominated by a Casbah and the Great Mosque. It is a busy port and trade center; industries include tourism, fishing, and textiles, especially carpets.
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