Martin's Must-Reads: 'Buckeye'

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Jul 14, 20261:45Science & Medicine

“Cal Jenkins was born in the spring of 1920 with one leg shorter than the other. Just two inches shorter, but that was enough to make plenty of things diﬃcult. Balancing on a bicycle took twice as long for him to learn a...

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