Beating the odds is always a great feeling Just ask anyone who has been accepted to a selective college, or unexpectedly won an athletic event.Take the startling case of Mitsutaka Uchikoshi One ice-cold October day in 2006, Uchikoshi had been with a group on a mountain in western Japan.For days, Le Marque struggled through hunger, freezing temperatures, and 12-foot (4-meter) deep snow.He recalls thinking...