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IT IS ABOUT THE TIME the sky-blue Macintosh screen begins looking like the color of a mountain climber dead of hypothermia. About the time I realize that my last "15-minute break" allowed me to go to Coffee Connection, run five miles and watch an entire college basketball game...
All whining to the contrary, I think the agonies of the thesis may be greatly exaggerated. Sure, it is agonizing writing on a computer for days at a time. Sure, the boredom of organizing notes and typing in quotes makes the thought of sitting through 12 hours of statistics lectures...
Enrolling in graduate school at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Wexler set her sights on a doctoral degree in clinical psychology, and chose Huntington's disease as her thesis subject. She also set up a Huntington's group in nearby Detroit, working with afflicted families there.
After earning her doctorate in 1974, Wexler set out to look for work, armed with glowing recommendations from her thesis advisers, who by this time had learned of her risk. "I had to ask them to rewrite their letters, to tone them down," she confesses. "While they didn't say...
Ganz spends most of his academic time concentrating on modern American history and government. His thesis is on--What else?--the decline in political participation in the United States since 1960.