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...HAVE BEEN QUITE PUBLIC ABOUT YOUR DEPRESSION, WHICH STARTED 20 YEARS AGO, DURING THE LIBEL TRIAL WILLIAM WESTMORELAND V. CBS. DID THE TRIAL TRIGGER WHAT WAS ALREADY THERE? I have a hunch that my mother suffered from depression. But when you're called a liar, a cheat and a fraud, you worry about it. I couldn't eat, couldn't sleep, thought about suicide. My wife Mary said, "You're depressed." My own doctor said, "Don't talk about depression. You're a tough guy. It's bad for your image to suggest that you're depressed." That happens...
...Internet. In short, the modern world. Back in 1958, computer circuits were expensive, unreliable, horribly slow and unlikely to get much faster given that transistors and other components had to be wired together by hand. Enter Kilby, a newly hired engineer at Texas Instruments, who followed a hunch that you could eliminate some of the wires by sticking transistors onto a sliver of germanium--a close cousin of silicon--and etching circuits onto this crystal "chip," which was about half the size of a paper clip. Many of his peers dismissed such a simple solution as naive, and his microchip...
...place. He can stand there and say he paid at the office already. He shouldn't, because he'll be left out of the history books. But it's hard for him because of the expense of the war and the debts. But I have a hunch that he will step forward with something. And it'll take somebody like...
...hunch who was to blame. “Me and the social chair were the only ones who weren’t Eastern European,” he says. As he saw it, students from places like Romania, Poland, and Bulgaria had turned Woodbridge into a cultural society all their...
Before departing with her team for the sunny South on a weekend road trip, Harvard softball coach Jenny Allard warned that the journey “could be interesting.” Whether that was a euphemism for problematic or simply a statement of impending discovery, Allard had a hunch that her unproven Crimson squad would be tested both at the Carolina Classic Tournament and upon its return north...