Word: lighting
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...earth makes its annual passage Wednesday and Thursday through the trail of the Tempel-Tuttle comet. Each year on or around November 18, different parts of the world are treated to the Leonids - a show of "shooting stars" (actually meteoroids from the comet's tail). Normally 10 to 20 light up the night sky each hour, but this year the show should be considerably better. Astronomical records dating to the beginning of the millennium show that every 33 years or so the Leonids spike a little as the comet passes by the sun and leaves a larger trail...
...crude, but [the movie] did $175 million in sales, which kind of tells you that most of the public looked at it and probably felt good about it." Which tells Tutt that unlike, say, Howard Stern's crude movie, Private Parts, which Wal-Mart did not carry, Mary will light up the cash registers...
...Littleton era, teachers and administrators no longer look the other way. Students begin to realize that cruelty has consequences. Gym class no longer means a risk of physical assault whenever the coach isn't looking. Cries for help are finally being listened to. Humanity begins to shine a feeble light down the corridors of what to many students has felt like a concentration camp run by sadists. No wonder all the disenfranchised kids in high school feel safer! It's not about metal detectors and searches--it's about finally stopping the bullies. STEPHEN KROH Dallas...
...command of his world accepting dependence and even folly: as he goes up to a maitre d' to shake his hand, Grunwald is told that he has just greeted a statue of a monkey. The eye, we learn early, is not just a camera but a "portal of light." In that respect, as in many others, this lucid, elegant book is a piercing reflection of (and on) the way that...
...Eyestrain can result from working for long periods without proper lighting. For the Cornell family, natural light comes through a window during the day, and a combination of indirect fluorescent lights and dimmer-controlled direct lighting provides even illumination at night...