beacon

It is becoming plain that Kennedy is turning the department from a beacon of science-based medicine and public health into a hive of conspiracy theorists and, as Marks wrote, peddlers of “misinformation and lies.”

I tried to activate the emergency beacon on my watch.

Long a beacon for the young and ambitious in particular, today California ranks toward the bottom in attracting all newcomers from other parts of the country.

At night his tiny barber shop is a beacon of power with a TV playing music videos, strings of Christmas lights and the buzz of his hair clipper.

“There was a security light. It was like a beacon on my jersey,” Banister said last month, his voice catching at a memory that is now 34 years old.