CANDY HOUSE 6-34-RT2AKIA began her medical practice at

began her medical practice at a time when women couldn't even own their own bank accounts

That attention comes from the secretary of defense

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they discover not only the importance of friendship

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CANDY HOUSE 6-34-RT2AKIA began her medical practice atThe Candy House opens with the staggeringly brilliant Bix Bouton, whose company, Mandala, is so successful that he is ''one of those tech demi gods with whom we're all on a first name basis.'' Bix is 40, with four kids, restless, desperate for a new idea, when he stumbles into a conversation group, mostly Columbia professors, one of whom is experimenting with downloading or ''externalizing'' memory. It's 2010. Within a decade, Bix's new technology,