Most premature babies do well in school later on

You had a lot of work to do when you were in the womb, what with the business of growing from a single cell to a squalling, eight-pound human in just nine months. That's why you needed every one of the 40 weeks of gestation you got, and why premature babies—especially extremely premature ones, born at just 23 or 24 weeks—start life at such a disadvantage.

Now, however, there's some very good news on the preemie front.