People: Dec. 1, 1986

The lad was reading restaurant menus at two, got out of high school at twelve, earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Miami at the sagacious age of 14 and graduated from Miami's law school when he was 16. But Prodigy Stephen Baccus had to molder away until the senescent age of 17 before he was able to become the youngest known person ever sworn in as a lawyer in the U.S. After he passed the bar exam this summer, his father Miami Attorney James Baccus petitioned the Florida Supreme Court for a waiver of the 18-year- old age requirement...

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