Natalie Portman, Oscar Winner, Was Also a Precocious Scientist

If anything, stories like Ms. Portman’s show that great success, like DNA, is constructed of a few basic building blocks: tenacity, focus, and the old Woody Allen line about just showing up.

by Natalie Angier, The New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/01/science/01angier.html?_r=1)