Zaslow, a Wall Street Journal columnist, is probably best known for writing the story that sparked interest in Randy Pausch's now-famous "last lecture." Here he turns a spotlight on 10 Iowa women, a project that grew out of a column on why women, and not men, hold tightly to old friends. Now in their mid-40s, Karla, Jane, Marilyn and company bonded as schoolgirls in college-town Ames...