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...hung with Mexican art, Free Tibet postcards, and memorabilia from her prep school, Exeter, Hernandez is comfortable and cheerful. The daughter of immigrant parents, she appears unburdened by her trek from Mexico City to Harvard, and her eyes light up at every interval as she talks about moving to Houston, Texas, in the eighth grade...
...stop Saddam this time, the Pentagon has contacted fire fighters like Boots & Coots International Well Control of Houston, which helped snuff out oil-well infernos during the Gulf War. It could take those operators a month to start work, especially if they are forced to drill for water to put out fires in arid regions of Iraq. The Pentagon hopes that won't be necessary. U.S. troops, including special forces, plan to descend on Iraq's oil fields in the conflict's early hours. "We would like to be able to very rapidly gain control over as much of that...
...hearings into the disaster. President Bush, a Texan who has reason to wish the home-state space program well, declared his support for NASA last week, but space-agency employees remain worried. "It's really pretty somber here," says a NASA contractor at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. "People are worried about layoffs, like after Challenger." In New Orleans, the work force at the Lockheed Martin plant that applies the foam to the shuttles' external tanks had already fallen from 4,800 before the Challenger explosion to 2,000 now. There's concern that Columbia's death could slash...
...played with the New York Philharmonic, the Buffalo, Los Angeles and Seoul Philharmonics, the National Symphony, the Atlanta, Houston, St. Louis, and Pacific Symphonies, among various others in the U.S. and abroad. He was recently honored with the Avery Fisher Career Grant, and currently records for the Jonathan Digital label...
...treats us like men. He lets us wear earrings,” said University of Houston receiver Torrin Polk on his coach John Jenkins. Finally, a coach that treats his players with the respect they deserve...