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Hakeem Oluseyi's Journey From The Street to The Stars
Hakeem Oluseyi grew up in some of the roughest American neighborhoods. His father was a drug dealer and his mother, pregnant at 16, dropped out of high school. Oluseyi might have followed their lead. Instead, he became a world-renowned astrophysicist. His new memoir is called "A Quantum Life: My Unlikely Journey from the Street to the Stars." He tells Hari how he beat the odds.
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