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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Basically, he makes cameo appearances in the plot when Betsey and Alessandro need another actor for a mini-plotline. In his first cameo, he played someone named Jonathan Finch who goes by Jonny Magic. As Alessandro describes Nathaniel’s character, he is “an arrogant bastard who is a wizard who works for the wizard guild...

Author: By Elyssa A. L. Spitzer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Welcome to the Dungeon | 11/5/2009 | See Source »

...stress theory is still just a theory. There is only epidemiological evidence to support it; a clinical trial measuring the effects of flu-induced maternal stress would, of course, be unethical. And the link could involve any number of unknown variables: in the new study co-authored by Finch, it's not even clear which of the survey respondents' mothers actually caught the flu, because that information was not available...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Side Effects of 1918 Flu Seen Decades Later | 10/12/2009 | See Source »

...study's authors, including Caleb Finch, a professor of gerontology at the University of Southern California, also combed through U.S. Army enlistment data for about 2.7 million men born between 1915 and 1922 and found other trends among flu babies. "Men born in 1919 were shorter by about 0.05 in. relative to surrounding cohorts," says Finch. That's only about a millimeter's difference, or the thickness of a credit card, but he thinks that's significant and somehow related to maternal flu exposure. "I am confident because it's only restricted to that one year," Finch says. (See what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Side Effects of 1918 Flu Seen Decades Later | 10/12/2009 | See Source »

...accepted to a summer program at the world-renowned RIKEN Brain Science Institute in Japan, she knew it would be intense. She just didn’t know how fast-paced it would be—a point driven home one day when she accidentally killed a finch...

Author: By Helen X. Yang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Mapping a Bird Brain in Japan | 9/11/2009 | See Source »

...Chinese can take this, Finch muses, because they are more nonchalant about bodily functions, such as burping, farting or even going to the bathroom - an act performed squatting sans doors in some places in China. But many Westerners enjoy the novelty of toilet dining too. Chris and Julia Harris took their visiting mother, who they say is obsessive-compulsive about cleanliness, to "freak her out," but she had a great time (though she refused to drink out of a urinal). The only people who have a hard time, says Chen, are the elderly who have exclaimed, "I will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Edible Excretions: Taiwan's Toilet Restaurant | 3/2/2009 | See Source »

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