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...slit his wrist and two who ran their cars into trees. "Growing up here, you're handed everything on a silver platter, but something else is missing. The one thing parents don't give is love, understanding, acceptance of you as a person." Adds Isadora Sherman of Highland Park's Jewish Family and Community Service: "People give their kids a lot materially, but expect a lot in return. No one sees his kids as average, and those who don't perform are made to feel like failures...
...guns, preferably a pair of 12-gauge double-barreled sidelock ejectors from London's Purdey James & Sons or Holland & Holland. A shotgun costs as much as $22,500; gunsmiths report waiting lists of up to four years for their matchless weapons. Over most of the 3 million arid Highland acres, where Lagopus scoticus breeds and feeds, the birds are the only source of income for the lairds. The owners' expenses can be considerable. Since grouse exist only on tender heather shoots, the lands must be burned over once a year to provide new growth and must be patrolled...
...atmosphere and scanning and rescanning its surface with radar. Last week NASA released the first renderings of these extraterrestial data, revealing a dramatic and awesome landscape still in the process of formation. Though 60% of the Venusian topography consists of flat rolling plains, it also includes four major highland regions, the highest being Ishtar Terra (named after the Assyrian goddess of love and war), which is dominated by a 11,800-meter (38,700 ft.) massif, probably volcanic, that eclipses Everest...
Ever since 1913, when Henry Ford fired up the world's first moving assembly line in Highland Park, Mich., to build Model Ts and began paying workers the then unthinkable salary of $5 a day, Detroit has been the center of the American automobile business. All five of the country's automakers (including Volkswagen of America) have their headquarters in Detroit or one of its suburbs...
...other American industries, ensuring that the worker's viewpoint gets an adequate hearing at executive levels. Says he: "Maybe the adversary relationship is precisely what is wrong with the American labor movement." In any case, Eraser's trial run in Chrysler's red brick headquarters in Highland Park, Mich., will certainly have an impact far beyond that troubled company...