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...forth from conventional comix storytelling to more metaphorical sequences explaining the science. Still, "Suspended in Language" does better at dramatizing Bohr's life than at illuminating his theories. If, like me, you couldn't pass a current high school physics exam, you will likely find much of the high math and various connections between ideas a bit heady and confusing. Fortunately, the pacing of the book is such that even if you don't totally get, say, the importance of Planck's Constant or even what it is, Ottaviani's enthusiasm still makes you excited about...
Despite these late-night lures, the Loker scene is far from Landsdowne Street. Grate characterizes the atmosphere as “pretty mellow,” adding, “I have never seen an upperclassman there. It is all freshmen…everyone is getting math help.” So far, the Grill’s reception from the freshmen has been lukewarm, and despite shuttles to and from the ’Berg until four a.m., the upperclassmen aren’t passing over the Quincy Grille for Loker. Whether or not the late-night Loker Grill...
...making this commute much longer. Like most of Bangladesh's 1.8 million textile workers, she has heard rumors that the American and European companies that currently buy clothes from her country will switch to Chinese manufacturers next year?leading to closures of garment factories in Dhaka. The zero-sum math of globalization makes little sense to one of its victims. "I know that everything in Dhaka's markets is made in China," Begum says. "But how can the Chinese make clothes more cheaply than we do, when I get paid so little...
...rides up and down the elevator in the early morning hours when there isn’t much traffic, sitting on the floor, listening to his roommate’s iPod and doing his homework. “Normally I do my math,” says Lawrence, who is planning to joint concentrate in philosophy and math. His roommate, Christos Kaplanis ’08, and his Thayer neighbor, Robert D. Cecot ’08, have studied with him a few times. “It’s really cool,” Kaplanis says...
Students taking math, German and Freshman Seminars this semester will be able to forego paper CUE Guide evaluations and reflect upon their experiences online, the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) announced yesterday...