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By Juliet Eilperin / The Bulletin
February 8, 2011
WASHINGTON — America, prepare to embrace “lumens.”
For more than a century, buying light bulbs has been a fairly straightforward transaction: Consumers have judged pear-shaped incandescent bulbs by how much wattage, or power, they consume.
But the government wants the next generation of bulbs to....