'Joy! Rapture! I've Got a Brain!'

By THOMAS HALLOCK

I got an e-mail message last spring from my high-school sweetheart. (Let's call her Sara.) Sara was driven as a teenager and, as it turns out, remained so as an adult. She went to Middlebury College, earned a free ride through graduate school, took a Ph.D. in biology, then landed a postdoc at Berkeley. Now she does cancer research for the National Institutes of Health at Emory...

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