Word: austin
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...Austin LaRocque, a former Fernald student, toldthe panel that he was not informed of theradiation when he participated in the experiments...
...case, Inman said, "I am not a very good No. 2, so my year at the Defense Intelligence Agency and my 18 months at the CIA were not the happier times of my career." In the 1980s he headed a computer-technology venture and a defense-contractor company in Austin, Texas. Neither was a great success, but no one blamed him. Now he wants to bring the "best business practices" to the Pentagon...
Sanford Levinson, a professor at the University of Texas in Austin, believes the Constitution was indeed intended to protect some personal ownership of firearms, if only because the framers distrusted authority. "The Bill of Rights was basically written by people who had overthrown a government 13 years before," he notes. "They had no great confidence that the new Federal Government would turn out acceptably." But even he admits that "courts are likely to rule that Congress can do almost anything short of an outright prohibition of owning guns...
Notwithstanding whether homosexuality might be there already, Williamson County is an area in flux. Farms and ranches are making way for industrial parks and the expanding suburbs of nearby Austin, the state capital and the closest thing Texas has to a hotbed of liberalism. Business has been so good in Williamson County that unemployment among its 139,500 residents is 3.5%, about half the state average. "The county is growing like crazy," says Cathy Gilstrap, a Round Rock accountant. "There are those who want the growth, but they don't want any change...
Burk is the mother of Austin Messner, the five-year-old who set his sister on fire after he watched an episode of "Beavis and Butthead." In the episode Messner watched, the two MTV deadbeats depicted fire as cool. The show can be blamed at some level, but the problem really is that Burk should have exerted some control over what her son watched on television. "Beavis and Butthead" is hardly a show for five-year-olds; the show's main audience is teenagers...