Word: houston
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...Illegals take jobs at which natives turn up their noses because they have other options." Rice's Huddle contends, however, that many illegal immigrants have enough skills to land jobs that pay more than the minimum wage. In a study of 200 illegal aliens working in construction in the Houston-Galveston area, Huddle found that 53% made more than $5 per hour, and 12% topped $6. About 60% were working in jobs that require at least some skills, including cement laying, carpentry and plumbing. Based on such studies, Huddle, whose methodology is challenged by other academics, estimates that for every...
...children of those women grew up and moved to Long Island, Miami, Houston and Hollywood. Some of them built shopping malls or went to medical school or wrote television sitcoms. Their stories became literature, their jokes part of the national frame of reference. Assimilation was complete. Now other women from other areas of the world are taking their places...
Most Asians either have some knowledge of English before coming to the U.S. or quickly acquire the rudiments of an English vocabulary, often by methods bordering on the draconian. Son Nguyen, 18, a Vietnamese-born high school graduate in Houston, recalls that his brother-in-law required him to memorize one page of an English dictionary after school each day. More conventional teaching techniques are available throughout the U.S. in federally sponsored language programs. Those fortunate enough to have studied English at home can often make the transition easily. Cal Tech Senior Hojin Ahn, 24, a native South Korean, arrived...
...news in Houston was the remarkable success of alpha interferon (one of the three major types of the substance) in fighting an unusual cancer known as hairy-cell leukemia (because of the hairy appearance of the malignant cells). The disease is usually treated by removing the patient's spleen, but this seems to help in only about half the cases. For the other half, there was no viable treatment until interferon was tried. Two reports presented at the conference showed that interferon can be effective in up to 90% of hairy-cell patients, greatly reducing or completely reversing all signs...
...work, the results can be dramatic. It has produced complete remissions (though not necessarily permanent cures) in advanced cases of kidney cancer; in malignant melanoma, a lethal form of skin cancer; and in Kaposi's sarcoma, a skin cancer that often strikes AIDS victims. In one study reported in Houston, just five out of 52 patients with advanced melanoma were successfully treated with interferon. But this handful was extraordinary: all signs of cancer disappeared within four months, even though the disease had spread to such organs as the liver and lungs...