Sex changes a school of thought
by: WHO KNEW? Kate Legge
From: The Australian
December 26, 2011 12:00AM
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/features/sex-changes-a-school-of-thought/story-e6frg6z6-1226227729945SCHOOL reunions are full of surprises. So many faces and fortunes give the lie to that oft- quoted Jesuit maxim: "Give me the boy until he is seven and I will show you the man."
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"Guess who he is now?" he asked with an incredulous expression that warned against anything so predictable as colonel or brigadier or NATO chief. "Head of Amnesty International," I volunteered. He shook his head. "An activist with Greenpeace," I took another stab at an improbable destination for a soldier in the making. Wrong again. "A Buddhist monk?" No. "A yoga teacher?" He had me stumped.
Russell Padman is now Dr Rachael Padman, lecturer in astrophysics at Cambridge University. We didn't believe it. We rushed to the computer to google him/her and she appeared in a click of the mouse with glasses and shoulder-length auburn hair, her soft face smiling above a tightly worded academic profile with scant mention of her intriguing journey. We skipped the arcane papers she has written on constellations and millimetre wave options and leapt upon the autobiographical essay called 'Rachael's Story'.
