Word: houstons
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...Houston 112, Kansas City...
...amount of housing for the poor and reduced crime rates to the same levels as those of rich white districts, Lindsey now presides more or less benignly over some 2,000 housing units. Washington is putting up $200,000 to try his oasis system in another city, possibly Houston. But to Lindsey, who now has a $52,000 salary and no beard or ponytail, the big danger is that Government still tends to favor what he calls a failure model, imposing expensive programs on the poor and then blaming them for the predictable problems. "Public housing must be a privilege...
Deaf Smith County, Texas. Named after one of General Sam Houston's scouts, this flat farm county in the Panhandle covers a salt bed that begins about 2,500 ft. below the wheatfields. Geologists seeking a safe radioactive-waste site have long favored salt formations because they are free of water, tend to reseal if fractured, and handle heat well. But farmers fear that their deep aquifers, used to irrigate crops, might become contaminated. In a state survey of 1,000 area residents, 73% said they would resist placing the dump there, and only 4% favored...
Philadelphia, Houston and Charlotte, N.C., operate similar programs. Houston's hotline corps includes a bilingual teacher to handle questions from Spanish-speaking youngsters. The math hotline in Lorain, Ohio, not only shepherds school-age callers but graciously fields inquiries from college students and, in season, adults wrestling with tax returns...
Kathryn Sullivan, 33, the first American woman to walk in space, on the relative risks of rocket flight and driving in Texas: "Driving on the Houston freeway is more dangerous. I'll take my chances on the launch...