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Neil Armstrong meant to say "That's one small step for a man," adapting the phrase from a children's playground game. Instead, because of intense radio static, Mission Control in Houston--and the rest of mankind--heard, "That's one small step for ... man, one giant leap for mankind," which became one of the most famous sentences of the 20th century. If the audio failed, the images were indelible, as a camera mounted on the base of the lunar-landing vehicle beamed back the otherworldly milestone. Ohio-born Armstrong, then 38, had become the first earthling on the moon...
What I want is a president who will spend as much time on the American economy as he appears to spend on making plans for Iraq. I want a President who will take the bull by the horns and deal with health-care issues. RICK GILLIS Houston...
...couldn't feel more at home. An All-Star for the second straight year and the league's sixth leading scorer, Nowitzki, 24, like Houston Rockets center Yao Ming and Sacramento Kings forward Peja Stojakovic, belongs to a swelling corps of international players who are winning hearts, minds and dollars, both in the U.S. and abroad. While helping make basketball arguably the world's fastest-growing sport, he and the other sharpshooting globetrotters have managed to captivate hard-to-please hoops fans in the U.S. "Nowitzki's just a freak. He's too big for the small forwards to guard...
...Charles Butt, 65. In a business increasingly dominated by huge national chains, H-E-B is a rare regional firm that has found a niche where it can beat the giants. Long established in San Antonio and Austin, H-E-B is making a major push into Houston--with 50 stores open and seven more to come this year--and into Mexico, where it plans to double the number of stores within five years and open a 300,000-sq.-ft. warehouse in 2004. Charles Butt says 2002 companywide sales were $9.8 billion, up from $8.9 billion in 2001; sales...
What most sets H-E-B apart is its canny customization of stores. At the H-E-B in Houston's Alief section, live tilapia and catfish swim in a tank in the seafood department, and fresh lemongrass and rambutan are stacked in the produce aisle--all favorites of Alief's large Asian community. In San Antonio's Deco-District there are fresh-baked pan dulce and nopalitos, an edible part of a cactus plant, for the area's many Hispanic shoppers. And in Houston's Westchase H-E-B, Indian shoppers can pick up aromatic ajwain and black mustard...