High school is certainly a head-scratcher, no matter how old you are, but the mathematics of social hierarchies can't hold a candle to the mysteries of the buckyball.

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"You know how boys are, " says the 53-year-old mom, who administers a graduate-degree program at Kennesaw State University near Atlanta.

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