Word: bulb
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...those things fade, why shouldn't memory? Then there's genetics. While the members of my extended family often live deep into their 90s, by the time they hit their 70s, a lot of their cognitive lights have typically begun to flicker, and memory is the first bulb to blow...
Fiberstars, based in Fremont, Calif., offers a pool-lighting package through contractors that typically costs $800 to $1,200. The system is simple: A small box 15 feet from the pool houses the bulb and the reflectors. Fiber-optic lines run underground from the box, surfacing where traditional lighting would normally be installed. Those going for a "Star Trek" effect can opt for glowing tubes mounted along the pool's rim. If you're more curious about the extremes of mood lighting, try experimenting with individual or rotating color filters placed in front of the light source. Psychedelic, baby...
...some of the most chaotic spots of the postwar era--Northern Ireland, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Lebanon, Afghanistan--places where history always seems to finish its work in a room where there is human waste spilled across the concrete floor and blood smeared on the wall and the bare light bulb of reason is not much help or comfort...
...many Federal Reserve chairmen does it take to change a light bulb...
...Greenspan holds the bulb, and the rest of the world revolves around...