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Taking his suggestion, I return to the memorial at dusk and wait to see the lights in the bases of the chairs. The lights are on all the time, but one cannot see them in the day, when the bases seem to absorb the pale green color of the lawn, like Coke-bottle glass. Some 50 people walk down one path and up the other in a casual ceremony. Many more were here at midday when I was with Jeanine. It is estimated that the memorial may attract as many as 1 million people a year, from all over...
Gore Poised to Defeat Challenger in November: WASHINGTON: In a ceremony on the White House lawn today, President Al Gore announced the invention of the newest generation of the Internet, Internet-IV. On the heels of a poll showing Gore leading his Republican challenger by 10 points in November's re-election contest, Gore showed no signs of slowing down his administration's agenda and used his speech to review some of its major accomplishments to date...
...city paid for 13,000 lawn signs and 10,000 bumper stickers--among other Census paraphernalia--in an attempt to get citizens to fill out their forms. This doesn't include the government's own campaign of cheesy commercials involving a shrunken man on a monopoly board who threatens that people who don't fill out their Census "get nothing." (As if you don't already feel bad enough about forgetting to turn in your forms last month...
...Cost of Wal-Mart lawn chairs used by B-2 pilots for power naps during 30-hr. missions to Kosovo...
Spring in Minnesota and the first lawn mowing and first outdoor supper, and then it's spring prom. White limos the size of trawlers float up to a hotel marquee and disgorge boys in black tuxes and girls in black or turquoise or tangerine or emerald, and they troop in through the revolving doors, prepared to execute a waltz and make small talk if necessary...