Eric Weiner is the author of The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World.

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Some of my colleagues grump about the Albergo's lack of a gym, Olympic-size pool or commanding sea view.

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But grump that I am, the Scott movie I'm going to single out for special scrutiny is one of his least successful -- at least, financially.

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Tim Berners-Lee, an exception, was a grump in his mid-30s when he invented the World Wide Web.

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