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...truth is that the town is already a tourist hive in season, and George Bush has nothing to do with it. The population swells to around 30,000 in the summer, and 19,000 cars cross the narrow two-lane bridge into Dock Square each day in peak season. Gridlock comes with the Coppertone. "Ocean Avenue is already a zoo," concedes selectman Drew. Adds Tom Bradbury, whose family has been in town for generations: "The Bush factor changes the name on the souvenir, but the souvenirs were already here...
...COCKTAIL HOUR Playwright A.R. Gurney is at his peak in this charming Wasp family comedy about a writer's relatives yearning for privacy, transplanted intact from San Diego's Old Globe. Nancy Marchand glows as the slightly sozzled matriarch...
...cost photovoltaic power. Photovoltaic cells, which produce electric current when bathed in sunlight, were briefly in vogue during the energy crises of the 1970s, and while public attention and Government funding have waned, research into the technology has continued. "The capital costs have come down from about $50 a peak watt to $5," said Speth. If they drop to $1, solar power will become competitive. That could happen without significant Government research support -- but it will happen sooner with...
Right now, the networks put special emphasis on anti-drunk driving programming during the winter holidays, but the Project would like more effort made. "There's a big peak in drunk driving just before Christmas and New Year's but also around July 4 and Labor Day," says Winsten. "Our goal is to get the mass media doing this year-round...to get American society tuned to the problem year round...
...openness has been linked by some critics to cutbacks in the network departments of standards and practices -- the censors who review shows and commercials for offensive (and potentially litigious) material. During the networks' recent wave of cost cutting, the ranks of these watchdogs were drastically reduced: from a peak of 75 to 80 per network during the 1970s to 35 to 40 today at ABC and fewer than 30 each...