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The lighthouse has been mostly abandoned for 50 years.

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On Thursday afternoon, roughly three dozen surfers were lined up to catch waves at Steamer Lane — just below the Santa Cruz coastline’s cliffs near the city’s iconic lighthouse and surfer statue.

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Among the vignettes arrayed across the background plane are a ship at full sail, another docked and being unloaded, a lighthouse and a sacrifice.

At the agricultural company Syngenta, for example, the company has identified “lighthouse” projects in areas like research and development and supply-chain functions that are ripe for an AI overhaul.

That combination of locality and ritual — somewhere and nowhere at once — turns Cracker Barrel into a kind of cultural lighthouse.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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