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...learn is written into the human brain by genes that open and close a critical window during which learning takes place. One of those genes, FoxP2, has recently been discovered on human chromosome 7 by Anthony Monaco and his colleagues at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics in Oxford. Just having the FoxP2 gene, though, is not enough. If a child is not exposed to a lot of spoken language during the critical learning period, he or she will always struggle with speech...
...mixing the grandiose and ironic (a recipe in her first book begins, "I first had salsa verde when I was a chambermaid in Florence...") with a healthy sprinkling of famous names. Her father Nigel was a journalist before becoming Chancellor of the Exchequer under Margaret Thatcher. After graduating from Oxford, Nigella followed her father into journalism at the Sunday Times of London. Soon she veered into her mother's territory (Vanessa Lawson was an heiress to a chain of tea shops) and started writing about food...
...summa cum laude math concentrator at Harvard, he was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa and won a Marshall Scholarship that allowed him to earn his Masters of Science from Oxford University. He then returned to the University to get his Ph.D...
...regard,” says Robert Brustein, former executive director and founder of the American Repertory Theater (ART), Cambridge’s only professional acting troupe which shares the Loeb Drama Center with undergraduates. “I can only guess that it was a kind of imitation of Oxford or Cambridge.” This structure—or lack thereof—has helped the arts gain popularity at Harvard. The OFA, which supports student artists and sponsors cultural programming, estimates that half of the undergraduate population is actively involved in the performing or creative arts. An extremely...
Kwak will be attending Oxford University in the fall studying for his Masters in Comparative Social Policy, followed by a year pursuing a Masters in Collaborative Piano at the prestigious Juilliard School of Music in New York City...