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...meets a second year student called Keefer. Keefer is "bony as a bird," a gaunt, nervous man with an uncontrollable stutter. Having flunked one of his first-year classes, Keefer is marked out by the teachers as a failure and tortured more than anyone else. His only solace is Johan, a partially tame shark he keeps in a sea-pen not far from his cabin. Schulman attempts to use Jonah as a sort a of underpinning for this section of the novel, bringing Jane, Keefer and Jonah together again and again as a sort of touchpoint by which...
Though Blake and Harvard co-captain Kunj Majmudar defeated the Wildcats' Johan Hesoun and Patrik Johansson 8-6, the Crimson's second and third doubles pairs lost...
PAPER CLIP The design is perfect. There's been little improvement since Norwegian Johan Vaaler got his American patent in 1901. Only about 20% are actually used to clip papers...
Timothy Leary might've approved: South African military officers ordered scientists in the country's secret chemical warfare program to manufacture 2,000 pounds of the designer drug Ecstasy, a scientist told the country's Truth Commission today. Dr. Johan Koekemoer said he was told the drug would be used to incapacitate enemies of the apartheid regime. Even amid tales of government laboratories' producing poison-filled umbrellas and conducting bizarre experiments on the sperm count of baboons, the suggestion that apartheid's secret weapon was a party drug was hard to take seriously, according to TIME South Africa bureau chief...
...another odd coincidence, that same August, as Fukuda investigated the new virus in Hong Kong, the quest to understand the 1918 epidemic suddenly gained momentum, with help from a surprising quarter. Out of the blue, Taubenberger got a letter from a retired San Francisco pathologist, Johan Hultin, who had read Taubenberger's paper in Science and saw at last an opportunity for which he had been waiting for nearly a half-century...