The racing sailboat
was small, and Christoph
Lange wanted to be sure he didn't capsize and
plunge into the Charles River again, as he'd
done half a dozen times that spring. Using his blue sailing shoes for
leverage, he carefully arranged himself on the craft's cramped
bench and reached for the tiller. The day was mild; the wind barely ruffled
the dank water lapping the edges of the ramp that led to the Harvard
Sailing Center, in Cambridge, where Lange, assistant professor of biostatistics
at the Harvard School of Public Health, had been a member since 2000.
