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...Rotters’ Club, Jonathan Coe presents a vivid and telling portrait of Birmingham, England in the 1970s. Focusing primarily on the adolescent Benjamin Trotter, whom his schoolmates jokingly call Bent Rotter—from the British slang for homosexual—the book tackles the standard issues of English high school, such as dealings with the opposite sex, parents, bullies, peers and, of course, the tribulations of wearing a uniform. But it also breaches the deeper problems of labor relations and unions, race relations, music, extra-marital affairs, the aftermath of World War II, religion, meaningless...
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...mind,” which appears to be a uniquely human characteristic. Researchers in Hauser’s lab have studied several problems related to the question of what makes humans uniquely human, including ability to communicate and recognize numbers. Justin A. Junge ’03 assisted Jonathan I. Flombaum ’02, who wrote his thesis on the ability of rhesus monkeys to recognize numbers. “We found that primates can generally differentiate between one, two and three of something, but not between amounts greater than that,” Junge says. Junge and Flombaum...
...despite a more even effort, an extra-man goal from Brown’s Jonathan Thompson with a little over three minutes remaining sealed the deal for the Bears...
...Jonathan R. Ardrey ’05, who spun at Pfoho 54 in the fall, says he also appreciates the resource. But he’s not interested in collective bargaining at the moment. “Right now I feel like more a member of a club with tight music and talented people rather than something along the lines of the AFL-CIO arguing for higher wages and better hours,” he says...