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Formerly Nerdy Teen in New Jersey Has Dazzling Future as a Jewelry Designer.

By Candy J. Cooper, The Record, Hackensack, N.J. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

May 6--She walked the halls of her middle school, a self-described nerd: braces, glasses, a stick-skinny figure hunched over a book. Bullies fired spitballs into her nest of frizzy hair. The spitballs sometimes stuck all day without her knowing.

So Catherine Sciancalepore fled her Fairview school for Bergen County (NJ) Technical High School, with nerdlike test scores that landed her in pre-engineering and honors everything -- biology, chemistry, physics, Spanish, histo

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