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Beate Liepert is an atmospheric physicist at Columbia University. She has trouble telling left from right--a result, she thinks, of being forced, as a young girl in Bavaria, to write with her right hand. Now she's ambidextrous, and can read backward, although she used to have a problem with certain word pairs: she'd call sugar salt or a table a chair, and would insist, after being corrected, that she'd been misheard.
Liepert mentioned all this near the end of a drive the other day from upper Manhattan to an airfield in western New Jersey, where she was to embark on a flight in a hot-air balloon. A passenger's initial unease over the balloon flight--"We go...
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