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...esoteric the technologies or lofty the management theory, the auto industry reduces ineluctably to a piece of hardware: a car with four wheels, an engine and thousands of little things that make you love it or hate it. For a sneak preview of Saturn, I went to GM's Milford Proving Grounds in suburban Detroit, where officials rolled out all three models: the standard sedan, the high-performance sedan and the sporty coupe. Since this was a secret mission, weeks in advance of the product launch, all traces of the company logo and the brand name were covered by masking...
Murray was born in April, 1919, in Milford,Mass., and graduated from the College of the HolyCross in Worcester in 1940 before attendingHarvard Medical School. In his long career inmedicine, he has served as the president of theAmerican Association of Plastic Surgeons andregent of the American College of Surgeons...
...Peter Terry was doing a crossword puzzle in a back room in his house in the Staffordshire village of Milford when a gunman opened fire through a rear window, wounding him nine times. The attack left Terry with extensive internal injuries -- as well as two bullets lodged less than an inch from his brain...
...Tenakill School in Closter, N.J., to urge a ban on polystyrene at the school. Since their victory, 800 chapters of the student group have sprung up in the U.S. and Europe. One of KAP's primary goals is to reform the biggest polystyrene user of all. In West Milford, N.J., Jennifer Brailey, 12, has persuaded her family and friends to boycott McDonald's stores, or at least refuse any food that is enclosed in polystyrene containers. She has helped organize letter-writing campaigns to urge McDonald's to stop using the material. In some states, students have mounted a Send...
...year-old housewife heads the Louisiana Environmental Action Network, an umbrella for about 50 local environmental hell raisers, which lobbied successfully last year for the passage of the state's first air- quality law. In New Jersey the social-studies class of teacher Karl Stehle at West Milford High School scored its first environmental victory last year when it persuaded the school board to switch from Styrofoam trays to old- fashioned washable dishes; since then the students have joined nationwide groups like Kids Against Pollution, have protested McDonald's recycling practices, and are raising money to buy 300 acres...