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Let there be light, but not too bright

AS the days draw in, Athena has been reminded of the ways that a sudden surge of plentiful, strong and cheap lighting is having an impact—apparently without much public discussion—on nighttime London. The agent of change has been the Light Emitting Diode or LED, which not only operates with

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