Word: eurekas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...world may come to California thinking it is a magnificent playground, which it is. "Eureka," says the state's motto: "I have found it." Gold is the color of the Forty-Niners' wealth and of white skin set to glowing in the California sun. But nature may object to the uses to which it is put. The hills may go off like a fire bomb, as they did in Oakland a few weeks ago. Or the solid earth may abruptly rumble and break in devastating earthquakes...
...White House just a few days before Nixon was forced to resign, "He'll be dead in a year." But Nixon was too tough. And more than once in the $56.8 million Reagan Library, the Nixon spark flared. He paused in front of Reagan's letter sweater from Eureka College. "I'm proud of you, Ron," said Nixon. "At least you got a football letter in college. I never...
...Modern Art, New York City. The millions of electronic elements in thumbnail-size microchips are so intricate that they must be plotted by computer on "road maps" 100 to 200 times the size of the chips. Put 31 of these plots on the walls of a museum and -- Eureka! -- you have an exhibition of colorful, exquisitely crafted designs that hold their own with many abstract paintings. Through...