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...come in. Finding insight in fields as disparate as psychology, politics, screenwriting, economics, folklore and epidemiology, they deconstruct sticky ideas--from Bill Clinton's 1992 campaign classic "It's the economy, stupid" to the way Jane Elliott taught the civil rights movement to third-graders in an all-white Iowa town (see next page). At the same time, they lay out a blueprint for engineering your own sticky ideas, whether your goal is to stop teen smoking, sell more soap or get your boss to take you seriously. Says Dan: "We tackle the notion that having the idea is enough...
...just such a paper trail that enabled Marilyn Jo Drake, the auditor in Iowa's Pottawattamie County, to suss out an anomaly in a county-recorder race she was monitoring in June. She noticed that a 20-year incumbent was being beaten 10 to 1 by an unknown newcomer. Sensing a glitch, Drake cross-checked the electronic results against the totals on the paper vote and discovered the veteran was actually well ahead. The problem, it turned out, was the way the candidates' names had been ordered and coded into the access cards that activated the machines, which were made...
...MONT. $5,255 ?MO. $6,531 ?MISS. $4,455 ?MINN. $7,495 ?MICH. $7,661 ?LA. $3,796 ?KY. $5,758 ?KANS. $5,149 ?IOWA $5,900 ?IND. $6,555 ?ILL. $8,133 ?IDAHO $4,159 ?HAWAII $4,257 ?GA. $3,913 ?FLA. $3,336 ?COLO. $4,646 ?CALIF. $4,560 ?ARK. $5,298 ?ARIZ. $4,676 ?ALASKA...
...former President George H.W. Bush in 1998. And it appears that Pataki aspires to the title of president as well. While he has not officially announced a bid for his party’s nomination in 2008, his political action committee has opened campaign offices in Iowa and New Hampshire, two states that are early stops on the road to the White House...
...Pinkett-Smith said that women should be able to work with and support one another regardless of race or class. She described how she was able to connect with different types of women while she was touring with her heavy metal band, Wicked Wisdom, in Waterloo, Iowa. “I’ve had a lot of contact with women I normally don’t have contact with, and it’s made me realize the connection we have as women,” she said. “There are always going to be differences between...