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When they succeed--and TIME has found six men and women who are succeeding, in ways large and small--their victories are all the sweeter. "The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause," said Austrian psychoanalyst Wilhelm Stekel. "The mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one." These crusaders have chosen the long, humble road...
...Assets bred ambition, and soon Wilhelm II's Germany was clamoring for colonies, a blue-water navy, "a place in the sun." Her Majesty's Britain was not amused, and neither were Russia and France. Armament begat counter-armament, alliances spawned counter-alliances. Domestically, too, the Reich resembled contemporary China. Having unleashed irrepressible economic growth, the Kaiser and his aristocracy found themselves in the same deadly dilemma as Deng's heirs today: How to keep power away from the rising middle classes? The answer: nationalism and chauvinism, which exacerbated diplomatic conflicts with Berlin's neighbors...
...novelty, by definition, must be new. Innovation most often occurs when ideas or things are brought together in a way that never happened before, and when such juxtaposition occurs, the result is greater than the sum of the parts. One and one make three. A late 19th century engineer, Wilhelm Maybach, working for Daimler, puts together the newly invented perfume spray with the newly discovered gasoline and comes up with the carburetor. In 1823 Scottish chemist Charles Macintosh, working with a throwaway coal tar by-product, naphtha (used to clean out dyeing vats), stumbles across the fact that it will...
...lucky handful of scientists who walk away with medals, life will never be the same. The first year, German physicist Wilhelm Roentgen collected 150,800 Swedish kronor (about $15,420 today) for the discovery of X rays. This year's prizes, given for what will almost certainly be more obscure achievements, will total more than $920,000 each. And that's not counting the market value of the gold medallion or the expenses-paid trip to Stockholm. After the ceremony, formerly impecunious researchers will find themselves awash in funding, showered with speaking gigs and offered their pick of jobs. Their...
...Crimson (4-0, 1-0 Ivy) dominated the overtime period, outshooting the Quakers, 9-1, but could not put a shot past freshman goaltender Carrie Wilhelm until the dying seconds...