Word: lighting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA Fireworks Down Under The biggest pyrotechnics display in the South Pacific will light up Sydney Harbor Bridge --$3.5 million to stage --1 million at the harbor...
LONDON The Millennium Dome The Queen will light a beacon, then boat down the Thames to officially open Britain's millennium landmark --Invitation only --10,000 guests...
WASHINGTON National Mall A sound-and-light display at the Washington Monument and Lincoln Memorial, following a Spielberg-produced film on the 20th century --Free --600,000 expected...
...Levy had never heard of macular degeneration. Unlike most, she was in a position to do something about it. One of the co-founders of a biotech company called QLT PhotoTherapeutics, Levy worked with David Dolphin of the University of British Columbia to develop Visudyne, a drug that uses light rays to combat the severest form of the disease. Although their research couldn't help Levy's mother, who died in 1996, it has passed muster with a scientific advisory panel to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Last week the panel recommended that the FDA approve Visudyne...
...classic pattern. Doctors inject the drug into a vein in the patient's arm; from there it quickly spreads through the body. The drug concentrates wherever new blood vessels are being formed. But it doesn't start destroying those blood vessels until it is activated by pulses of light from a non-heat-generating laser. Since the light is shone into the eye, only the abnormal growths in the retina are targeted. Patients have to stay out of the sun for 24 to 48 hours after treatment to avoid sunburn...