Once a migrant worker, today he's a brain surgeon

Seeded on Wed Jul 23, 2008 5:15 PM EDT (msnbc.com)

Two decades ago, Dr. Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa used his hands to pick vegetables for $22 a day; now he's one of the world's best brain surgeons. TODAY's Bob Dotson reports on how a laborer went from a California field to a lab at Johns Hopkins Medical Center.

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- Typical......another country wants us to fix what thay have screwed up. My solution is to simply nutruelize them as thay come over the border
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