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...urban sprawl, is fast becoming a national concern. Legislation to "bag the beam," as one campaign refers to it, is pending in four states, including New York and Massachusetts. Last summer Texas and New Mexico enacted tough laws to restrict outdoor lights, and just last week officials in Fauquier County, Va., joining hundreds of regional enforcement efforts, voted unanimously in favor of similar restrictions. Even Inuits living 200 miles north of the Arctic Circle have reportedly begun to complain about the lights...
DIVORCED. Elizabeth Taylor Hilton Wilding Todd Fisher Burton Burton Warner, 50, violet-eyed empress of stage, screen and altar; and John Warner, 55, Republican Senator from Virginia; after six years of marriage; she for the sixth time, he for the second; in Fauquier County...
...Susan Cummings, 35, the daughter of a billionaire arms dealer, was arrested and charged with first-degree murder in the death of Roberto Villegas, 38, an internationally ranked Argentine polo star who coached her, trained her horses and played for her Ashland Farm team. On Sunday, Sept. 7, when Fauquier County authorities arrived at the 300-acre estate where Cummings and her twin sister Diana live, they found Villegas dead on the kitchen floor with multiple bullet wounds to the neck and chest. Four spent shell casings and a pistol were on the floor in the hall leading...
DIVORCED. Elizabeth Taylor Hilton Wilding Todd Fisher Burton Burton Warner, 50, violet-eyed empress of stage, screen and altar; and John Warner, 55, Republican Senator from Virginia; after six years of marriage; she for the sixth time, he for the second; in Fauquier County...
...colony. his principal teacher, a Scot named William Small, imparted to the youth his own searching cast of mind as well as a thorough grounding in natural philosophy and mathematics. The invaluable Small also introduced his student to two other figures whose influence still marks him: Francis Fauquier, a humane, generous, formidably literate man who was then Virginia's acting Royal Governor, and George Wythe, a Williamsburg lawyer and an expert classicist. The four often dined together at the Governor's Palace and enjoyed the musicales there, Jefferson himself participating on the violin. The three older men, drawn...