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When the children are abed, the fair takes on a new life. Very good children should, in fact, be allowed to see the twilight transformation as 10 million light bulbs wink alive. The computerized lighting system, designed by Richard Peters, provides soft, ever changing illumination. Focal, ambient and sparkling lamps caress the roofs and walkways and bounce stars onto the river and lagoons. The lighting patterns change six times nightly and are different each night. Each evening too a different fireworks display explodes over...
...focal point of all creation...
Matters were not helped when Lebanon became a focal point of partisan politics. Sensing an advantageous election issue, congressional Democrats had intended to bring a resolution demanding Marine withdrawal from Lebanon before the House when Congressmen returned from an eleven-day recess on Feb. 21. Even some Republicans were sympathetic. In a provocative radio broadcast, only days before his sudden announcement of the Marine "redeployment" and the new rules for U.S. naval and aerial engagement in Lebanon, Reagan urged that the U.S. not "cut and run" from its positions. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, the President took...
Nevertheless, the nuclear industry is not well. Like a patient with a chronic disease, it has been ailing for more than a decade. It has been suffering seriously for nearly five years, ever since a 1979 accident turned the nuclear plant at Three Mile Island, Pa., into a focal point for public fears and protests. Now a series of reversals has worsened nuclear power's condition still further...
Within a few blocks of each other are several Catholic churches, including the area's largest, the Sacred Heart Church. In addition to being places of worship, the churches serve as focal points for a wide array of community activities...