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...short stint teaching writing at Yale, followed by a spell in Paris, he began working as a commercial fisherman to support his art. Then, separated from his first wife (he has had three, and four children), he loaded a few books, a gun and a sleeping bag into his Ford convertible and set off to visit every wildlife refuge in the country; by the time he was 32, this self-taught naturalist had produced the definitive guide Wildlife in America. Already, too, he was showing that he needed a lot of space, and wilderness, and clean water. His early novel...
...profits at home have made Japanese vehicles more expensive in the U.S. A mid-priced American-built car now typically costs $1,500 less than its Japanese counterpart. Another factor is that Japanese companies are weak in the light-truck category, where such vehicles as Dodge pickups and the Ford Explorer are driving off with the lion's share of a market niche that grew more than 18% last year, to 4.5 million vehicles...
...Henry Ford II Professor of the Social SciencesEzra Vogel, a friend of the Owada family, calledthe future crown princess "an excellent students;modest, hard working, conscientious, with a goodsense of responsibility and professionalism evenas an undergraduate...
...five of the cases, the men involved had already been convicted. Former National Security Adviser Robert F. McFarlane and aide Lyn Nofziger had been found guilty of perjury and lying to Congress. Yet their pardons are still on the edge of acceptability. Like President Ford's pardons of Watergate criminals, these pardons, however abhorrent, must be endured by law. Weinberger's pardon seems such an anomaly that it cannot be allowed to go unquestioned...
...MANY PEOPLE, SO LITTLE DATA. ALTHOUGH MORE than 22 million Hispanics live in the U.S., experts say there's precious little information on their political attitudes. Until now. The Latino National Political Survey, funded by the Ford, Rockefeller, Spencer and Tinker foundations, is the first comprehensive study of the values of Americans of Mexican, Puerto Rican and Cuban descent and is being praised by major Hispanic groups...