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The best and brightest students are recruited by an eccentric former teacher with teeth like a picket fence of spades, diamonds, clubs and hearts to practice in a college backroom as the mit blackjack team before. But one evening, ben is introduced by his unorthodox math professor micky rosa into a small but secretive club of five. Ben mezrich s taut, entertaining new book follows the men and women who have dedicated themselves to cloning the woolly mammoth, and maybe reversing some of the damage humans have done to the planet. Retrieved may 6, in mezrich published busting vegas. The inside story of six mit students who took vegas for millions is a book by ben mezrich about a group of mit card counters commonly known as the mit blackjack team. Four former members of the mit blackjack team the subject of ben mezrichs 2002 bestselling book bringing.
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