— New Year’s show has to go to Paris’s Eiffel Tower. How’d it happen? “It took five months for a crew of 20 mountaineers and rock climbers to string the 20,000 screw-in bulbs on the 110-year-old tower and an additional month for 47 more climbers and technicians to set 4,800 pyrotechnic launches on 80 specially created tower decks.” – Philadelphia Inquirer