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What does the Japanese art of paper folding have to do with higher math? Plenty. Demaine's origami work provides insights as readily into the problems of sheet-metal engineering as it does into those of robotics and molecular biology. He made his mark while still a teen by solving two major conundrums: the "fold and cut" and "carpenter's rule" problems. The former asks what types of shapes you can make by folding a sheet of paper and cutting it just once. The answer, Demaine helped prove, is any shape you like. The latter, a long-standing and deceptively...
...they wouldn't release me without a game plan, so I said what they wanted to hear for the first few days. After a while, I realized how much I needed help." Even then she was skeptical that she could beat a problem that went back to her teen years. She attributes her progress to psychotherapy, an organized routine and the group environment. "Prior to this, I had never talked to anyone about my problem or been around other people with the same problem, so I always felt very alone and isolated...
Actors thrive on this approach too. The production attracted such names as Meryl Streep and Lily Tomlin (who play a country-music sister act and really sing), teen tabloid queen Lindsay Lohan (Streep's daughter), Kevin Kline (Guy Noir, the private-eye character on Companion) and Woody Harrelson and John C. Reilly (Companion's singing cowboys, Dusty and Lefty...
Being a prodigy isn't always easy. When Paolini's parents realized they had a teen Tolkien on their hands, they quit their jobs, published Eragon themselves and put Paolini on a grueling tour schedule, from junior high to junior high, library to library. He became the family breadwinner. "As the saying goes, we really bet the farm," Paolini says. "It was down to the point where if we didn't sell enough books, we didn't have food on the table." Isn't that a lot of pressure for a teenager? "You have no idea," Paolini says. "Even though...
Cool kids are wearing T shirts from last year's sleeper hit Napoleon Dynamite, starring JON HEDER as a teen outcast. The hip apparel has yet to catch on with real-life outcasts...