Disappearing paths and anchor points

Using a MacBook Pro with Adobe CS3, the anchor points and drawing lines have disappeared from both the outline and art views.  The lines are still visible, but none of the anchor points can be seen to edit the lines.  How do I make them visible again?

Thank you that worked.  I am not sure how this happened as it is a complex geologic map that I was not looking forward to redoing for publication.

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