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Legend has it that Martin Luther had his eureka moment, which sparked the Protestant Reformation, while sitting on the toilet. Here at Harvard, we all aspire to alter history in our own ways, and nearly all of us spend a few minutes a day pondering existence on the john...
Flashy gadgets humble us all sooner or later. My eureka moment came last fall while I was attending an emerging-technologies conference at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. I walked into the pressroom, ready to plug my laptop into the Internet, only to find the room completely devoid of electronic equipment...
...books and magazines in the library is cathartic in a way that thumbing through a coursepack can never be; an idea that you discover on your own is infinitely more rewarding than one presented to you on Harvard’s silver platter. And in that “Eureka!” moment, real intellectual originality is born...
...records revealed that Osama bin Laden's network had been trying to acquire WMDs. Administration officials didn't have to work hard to identify a possible supplier. "Iraq," says a White House official, "was the easiest place they could get them from." Says a former senior Administration official: "The eureka moment was that realization by the President that were a WMD to fall into [terrorists'] hands, their willingness to use it would be unquestioned. So we must act pre-emptively to ensure that those who have that capability aren't allowed to proliferate it." Those seeking to convince Bush that...
...EUREKA MOMENT...