Word: highlander
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Steve Feldman, a travel agent in Highland Park, Ill., certainly hopes that's not the case. His income, based primarily on commissions at the Far Horizons agency, is already down 25% this year. That's not enough, however, to make him trade his job for the security of one with a more dependable, flat salary. "Even though it's riskier," he says, "there's a greater possible reward." Like millions of other workers nowadays, Feldman, who specializes in organizing gambling junkets, might just have to wait a little longer to hit the jackpot...
...current atmosphere to see how such cooperation could come to pass. If the Israelis attempted to relocate numbers of Palestinians by force, there would be much blood, and for Israel, a catastrophic CNN Effect. Turning out the Palestinians would get spun to the world audience as the Highland Clearances and the Trail of Tears and the Bataan Death and even, grotesquely, as the trains to Auschwitz - a replay, precisely, of the "nakba," the Palestinian "disaster...
...legendary in the West: pure opium. The drug is grown mainly by the hill tribes who came south from Yunnan, China, in the last century and brought a taste for the black, inebriating tar with them. Tribes like the Aka and Hmong cultivate the crop in the otherwise arid highland climate, and bring it down to sell to Vietnamese dealers in the main towns. Ton pays about $20 for a wax-paper sheet of opium, 6 mm thick and as wide as his hand. Broken down into the individual pipe loads he prepares for foreigners, that nets him a profit...
...made PT boats, including John Kennedy's PT-109. The company went out of business after the war, was revived in 1988, and a few years ago was bought by Chuck Houghton, who now turns out electric boats (old design, new battery technology) in a small factory in Highland, New York, across the Hudson River from Poughkeepsie...
...woman. Her husband MICHAEL JORDAN lives in Chicago, works for a team in Washington and jets all over the world playing golf and doing business. Now Michael has invited a friend, CHARLES BARKLEY, to stay at the house for a while. Barkley says he's moving into the Jordans' Highland Park, Ill., home so the two former Dream Team-ers can train together, drop weight and determine by the end of June whether they are in any kind of condition to return to the NBA, presumably for the god-awful but Jordan-run Washington Wizards. Barkley proudly claims that...