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Male adults, including fathers, stepfathers and live-in friends of unwed or separated mothers, all too frequently beat children too. But the cruelty of child abuse is most traumatic, and most widely abhorred, when such men prey sexually on young girls, sometimes barely past infancy, in the household. Some examples: ¶"All the time my father would be having sex he would be telling me I really liked it or telling me what a great body I had," writes Linda Halliday, 36, in The Silent Scream, her autobiographical account of how her father had regular intercourse with her, as well...
What's in a good name? "It ought to create a surge of satisfaction in the owner when he hears it spoken," says Thomas Moulson, a marketing-research manager at Ford. Still, the definition is elusive. Birds of prey, even imaginary ones, have been big successes (Thunderbird, Eagle, Skyhawk), as have weapons (Cutlass, Le Sabre, Javelin, Dart). American cars generally have more aggressive names than European models, which often wear numbers (3201, R-18), and domestic Japanese autos, which often have docile names (Fairlady, Bluebird, Sunny...
...TENDER PREY by Patricia Roberts
While some kitties have been tormented, up to 500 others each week have been abducted by teams of efficient criminals. Stealing up on their prey at break of dawn and using either tranquilizers or tantalizing goodies, the catnapers spirit the animals away to clinical experimenters, who require some 300 specimens each day. At $20 a cat, a resourceful thief can earn $50,000 a year...
...particularly in Spain, Italy and Greece, tend to be chaotic. In Athens or Rome, it can take half a day to cash a traveler's check at a bank. Pickpockets have proliferated in most major cities, particularly in Seville, Madrid and Paris, where organized bands of small boys prey on the unwary in places like the Louvre; there local police have even enlisted American tourists to act as decoys. And travelers protest as bitterly as ever about the all too many Parisian waiters who cling to their historic tradition of rudeness, slovenliness and occasional dishonesty. (But this...