A scientist learned he had won a Nobel prize in medicine after his wife found cellphone service as they came to the end of a weeks-long backpacking adventure. Fred Ramsdell was blindsided with the news after spending three-and-a-half weeks on vacation with his wife, Laura O'Neill, at about 8,000 feet in the mountains of Wyoming. On their last night, the couple were driving through Yellowstone National Park when they stopped at a small town and his wife's phone came into signal.
My parents would have us go out and look at the stars every night and make a wish. And that was always my wish: I just want to be on stage and want to be a performer.