Word: austin
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When Linda Maraniss visited the Texas Gulf Coast four years ago, she expected to see pristine sand and water. Instead, she found rotting garbage, old diapers and discarded furniture. Determined to do something about the situation, Maraniss returned to Austin, where she serves as regional director of the Washington-based Center for Marine Conservation, and organized the first Texas Coastal Cleanup. It has since become an annual event; last fall more than 8,000 people bagged 158 tons of trash. And 24 other states now hold their own cleanups...
Tokyo serenade. The "We Love Music, We Love the Earth" concert includes Sadao Watanabe, Lee Ritenour, Patti Austin, James Taylor, Dave Grusin and Oscar Castro-Neves. April...
Prior to arriving in Cambridge, Donahue requested the Law School videotape of the event, which drew more than 250 spectators to the Ames Courtroom in Austin Hall. The Federalist Society paid for the taping...
...international competition has spurred remarkable progress in the effort to understand nature's mysteries. Says theoretical physicist Steven Weinberg of the University of Texas at Austin: "Before, we had a zoo of particles, but no one knew why they were the way they were. Now we have a simple picture." That picture, known as the Standard Model, is based on a set of theories that attempt to describe the nature of matter and energy as simply as possible. The model holds that nearly all the matter we know of, from garter snakes to galaxies, is composed of just four particles...
...invariable caution raised about allowing young players onto the professional tour is that they may be subject to premature burnout, either physical or mental. The prime examples cited are Austin, who twice won the U.S. Open before departing at 21, and Andrea Jaeger, who made the finals of the French Open and Wimbledon before packing it in at 19. Yet the counterexamples of enduring grit can be equally persuasive: Evert, who began playing at the top level at 16, kept going until her September retirement at the age of 34; her equally precocious rival, Martina Navratilova, 33, is still playing...