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"I was reading five or six years ahead of my grade during public school. I was pretty bored. I made a contract with some of my teachers that if I didn't ask too many questions, I could work in the back of the room"
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Joshua Lederberg
between May 23, 1925 and February 2, 2008. He/she was a famous
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