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...Seung Byul, a quality inspector in Hyundai's Asan factory in Korea, invented an improved method for detecting missing bolts and brackets in hard-to-see nooks inside the car frame. He and his managers had spent weeks debating how to solve the problem. Then, says Yu, "I woke up one morning, looked in the bathroom mirror and realized, 'That's it!'" He simply installed mirrors above the assembly line for a better view of the car's innards...
Jeffrey P. Clemens ’05 woke up about an hour after the planes hit the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001 and turned on the TV. After taking in the destruction, he left his Matthews dorm room for a freshman seminar interview in Widener. He returned to watch Lower Manhattan turn into dust...
...woke up at sunrise and kayaked out about half a mile to Hope Island, a little uninhabited island in the bay,” says Mulder. “We went up on to a rock and I got down on my knee and proposed to her there. It was a very happy kayak ride back to her house...
...second day at Harvard, we woke up to what most of us had only known as an abstract concept. In the morning hours of Sept. 11, terrorism became real. As we graduate this week, we are faced with a similarly silent threat. If unchecked, our destruction of our climate will deeply and intimately affect all of our lives. Yet many of us think of this menace in the same detached way we used to think of terrorism...
Mann, the Crimson’s power-hitting catcher, woke up his teammates with a rocket foul into the stands just beyond the home dugout to lead off the second...