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...working life, voted for George W. Bush in 2004 because Bush "was trying to do a good job." Ask him how he feels now, and you get a different answer. "If he was running again, I wouldn't vote for him," says the 61-year-old retired plumber from Eureka, Calif. Why not? Medicare's new prescription-drug benefit is too complicated, he says, adding that "the government seems more concerned about drug companies making a profit than the people getting insured...
...show plays also true to the showbiz verities. Gaudio: "A tune pops in my head," and eureka, it's "Sherry." The bosses don't want to record a Gaudio composition. They get it played, finally (after a buildup longer than the one for Mother Bates in Psycho), and voila, it's "Can't Take My Eyes Off You," Valli's longest-lived hit and, musically, one of Gaudio's least surprising Seasons creations: standard, nicely orchestrated Europop, a plain old love song, with no grudges or class animosities. (But don't listen to me. It's among the ten most...
...what engineers call fatigue life, of a welded joint are notoriously imprecise. Dong refused to resign himself to the same guesswork that other engineers have long thought unavoidable. A man who has to keep himself from thinking after 9 p.m. in order to prevent insomnia, he had his eureka moment while reading himself to sleep five years ago. On a magazine ad covered in his scribblings, Dong's method, dubbed Verity, was born. Engineers had been calculating fatigue life the wrong way for 60 years. Push your hand against a tabletop. Force is the amount of effort you exert; stress...
...write a thesis on Nizamuddin, the city's Muslim quarter. She soon realized she was the first to systematically chronicle the area and was effectively "rediscovering a city." After stumbling upon a whole palace complex in the Mehrauli district of South Delhi that was being demolished, Thakur had a eureka moment. "I thought, 'This is our history. This is who we are. We've got to take this seriously.'" She trained as a conservationist in Rome, won a scholarship to the archeology school at England's University of York, then returned home a quarter of a century...
Nupedia's problem was that it was a centralized, top-down system. The software had seven laborious stages of fact checking and peer review. Then Wales discovered wikis, and the pathological optimist had his eureka moment. His new goal was to create a free encyclopedia for all, in their own language, written by anyone. It took Wikipedia just two weeks to grow larger than its predecessor...