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Last Monday morning, pro golfer Payne Stewart awoke with the world on a string. He was to fly from his home in Orlando, Fla., eager to scout a site in Dallas that might be used for his fledgling golf-course-design business. Then on to Houston for the Tour Championship, a prestigious, season-crowning showdown among an elite field of the year's Top 30 money winners. Buoyed by a religious faith to which his young children had led him, Stewart, 42, was happier than friends had ever seen him. And thanks largely to a June victory...
Horrocks, who originally was an elementary school special education teacher in Houston, says she believes there are very hard-working and intelligent public school teachers, but maintains that the level of teachers at Banneker is exceptionally high...
...first endostatin testing on humans will be conducted by Dana-Farber/Partners CancerCare--a coalition of Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Two other institutes, one in Houston and another in Wisconsin, will begin testing the drug later in the year...
...suffered a setback last week when the NFL rejected his proposal to bring a professional-football expansion team to L.A. Ovitz had spent years on the project and secured the cooperation of stars such as Tom Cruise to spearhead the gridiron campaign, only to be outbid by organizers in Houston. This came amid reports that Ovitz, now a manager at his new firm, Artists Management Group, was having trouble interesting Hollywood studios in the rights to the latest manuscript by Michael Crichton. Ovitz recently lured the Jurassic Park author, whose previous novels were turned into big-budget films, to A.M.G...
...This week Houston, which lost its National Football League team two years ago, was awarded a new NFL franchise for 2002. This year Cleveland, Ohio, which lost the Browns in 1996, fielded its new expansion team, called the Browns. And Los Angeles, which had a team until 1995, continues to angle for a new one. Why doesn't the NFL just keep teams where they are in the first place...