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On Third Look

By Tim Keown

Thursday, November 6, 2008

Say they dropped you into a seat at a college gym and told you to pick the best player on the court just from the pregame warmups. That means you'd have to judge solely on appearance, and in that case one of the last guys you'd choose would be the long and loose white kid who runs the floor as if his shoes were three sizes too small. But what if you knew the kid's story? What if you could unwind the strands of DNA that decode the strength and fortitude hidden inside him? What if you found out ...

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