HOW DO you fathom the early musical genius of a Lili Boulanger. Tragically cut down by tuberculosis at 24, she would otherwise certainly outstripped her famous sister Nadia, pedagogue and conductor, and in any case she left an astounding if necessarily short canon of...

She never went to high school, but 15-year-old Sophia Saeed is completing work for her master's degree in technology management at the University of Maryland at College Park. The Gaithersburg teen is too young to drive, vote or hold a full-time job...