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...eureka moment, Watson realizes the base pairs don't match like with like--A-A or G-G--rather they pair A-T and G-C. Crick concurs, and their model falls into place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Chain Of Events | 2/17/2003 | See Source »

...with these tiny islands. He found himself spending hours giving each one a detailed, working infrastructure--tiny people in tiny factories loading products onto tiny ships. "Pretty soon," he remembers, "I figured out I was having a lot more fun creating these little islands than I was bombing them." Eureka: the original Sim. Wright had discovered a new way to have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sim Nation | 11/25/2002 | See Source »

When high school student Ryan Patterson, 18, saw a deaf woman trying to order food at a Burger King, he had a eureka moment: Why not create a device that translates sign language into text? Armed with that idea and a leather golf glove, Patterson created a device that senses its wearer's hand movements and transmits them wirelessly to a tiny handheld monitor, where they appear as words. The device won Patterson a top prize at the Siemens Westinghouse Science and Technology Competition. INVENTOR Ryan Patterson AVAILABILITY Prototype TO LEARN MORE www.siemens-foundation.org...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Now Hear This | 11/18/2002 | See Source »

...salient tidbit of information that dramatically, and conveniently, ended the proceedings. While prosecutors claimed Burrell had unlawfully secreted Diana's possessions away from her family, he maintained she had given him some of the belongings and he was safeguarding the rest. Last week the Queen supported his contention when - eureka! - she recalled a conversation she had with Burrell after Diana's death in which he told her of his cache, thereby removing any taint of theft and any basis for prosecution. And any hope that a royal would disclose what life is really like behind palace walls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Royal Recall | 11/3/2002 | See Source »

...trying to belittle these efforts. The stamp collectors who will determine the biochemical pathways of the human body will bring more good to this world than anyone might imagine. However, the “Eureka,”—the breathless chase of uncharted physical processes—is what I am after...

Author: By B.j. Greenleaf, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The New Frontier | 10/24/2001 | See Source »

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