Word: houston
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...with a cold. So could patients with severe asthma or emphysema, for whom colds can sometimes trigger a life-threatening battle for air. "It's a huge challenge to find a way to prevent colds," says Dr. Robert Couch, professor of microbiology at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. But think of the glory--and the prizes--for the scientist who finally does...
...become moneymakers. Spike Lee's 1996 film Get on the Bus, a fictional drama about the Million Man March, drew some favorable reviews but few theatergoers. Says a source close to Lee: "That broke Spike's heart." Even the 1996 comedy-fantasy The Preacher's Wife, starring Whitney Houston and Denzel Washington and directed by Penny Marshall, was a commercial disappointment...
...Rice University in Houston, Texas, the endowment is used largely to lower tuition. Only about 10 percent of the university's revenue comes from tuition, and endowment covers the rest, according to Dean W. Currie '69, vice president for finance and administration...
...luck began for Roel Saldivar '01 the day before he was scheduled to leave Houston for Orientation Week activities at Harvard...
Instead of spending his last night at home with family and friends, Saldivar was in surgery at a Houston hospital with a broken ankle...