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Visibly ailing since Memorial Day, Austin's historic Treaty Oak -- alleged site of a treaty signing by Native Americans and Father of Texas Stephen F. Austin -- has been receiving the kind of diligent attention usually given a gravely ill head of state. A team of eleven has meticulously removed the contaminated soil from around its huge root network, and last week billionaire H. Ross Perot flew in 18 technical specialists from around the nation to assist in a bedside diagnosis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Texas: Please Don't Die, Tree | 7/10/1989 | See Source »

...every few months. At its prisons and work camps, the California Youth Authority runs voluntary classes in which inmates study property crimes, domestic violence, sexual assault, child abuse, homicide and victims' rights. Some offenders do eventually express remorse. Says one Giddings boy, a middle- class 15-year-old from Austin who raped his eight-year-old neighbor: "I realize how society really looks at rape. Sometimes at night I sit up crying. I look back and say that could never have been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Our Violent Kids | 6/12/1989 | See Source »

...spring semester, Rodolfo De La Garza, a political scientist from the University of Texas at Austin, will teach two courses in the Government Department...

Author: By Melissa R. Hart, | Title: Battle Over an Ethnic Studies Department May Emerge | 6/8/1989 | See Source »

Some Catholics, left behind in this outpouring of new energies on what was considered "their" issue, seem to be running to catch up. Auxiliary Bishop Austin Vaughan of Newburgh, N.Y., has gone to jail with Operation Rescue, and Cavanaugh-O'Keefe claims other bishops are considering that step. The threat of increasingly harsh penalties for sit-ins, especially under the suspect RICO anti-racketeering statute, brings out more defiant rhetoric from the pro- lifers. Some leaders have sold their homes and disposed of other property to live in imitation of Andrews, who gave up her worldly goods to pursue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Operation Rescue: Save The Babies | 5/1/1989 | See Source »

...produced a huge surplus of such structures all across the Sunbelt, and some excess properties even in Northeast states like Massachusetts and Connecticut. "What you're dealing with is the aftermath of , a massive speculative excess. It tends to drive down the value of all real estate," says Austin-based banking analyst Alex Sheshunoff. To make matters worse, mortgage rates have risen a full percentage point in the past year, to an average 11.5%, which has stalled home sales and depressed residential- property values in many areas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sale of The Century | 5/1/1989 | See Source »

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