Word: houstons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sami W. Habiby Houston...
...physically active woman is doing, while maintaining a full-time successful career. Dr. Frances Conley, 42, is a Palo Alto, Calif., brain surgeon who trades in her scalpel for a javelin once a week. Beth Edens, 31, is usually on the move as a sales representative for a Houston printing company but still finds time to keep in shape with aerobic-exercise classes. "It's mental health," she says. "If it helps me physically, fine. But most of all it's a release...
...began to talk, they had no proof he had committed any of the murders. Watts' luck ran out last May 23, when he was arrested while trying to drown Lori Lister, 20, in her apartment bathtub. In the end Watts' culpability came as no great surprise to Houston police. When Watts migrated south in March 1981, Michigan authorities warned Texas police that he was suspected of being Michigan's "Sunday Morning Slasher." Houston police placed Watts under surveillance, but he was obviously not watched closely enough...
Heart Surgeon Denton Cooley had just topped off 27 holes of golf with a Sunday dinner at his vacation home in Galveston, Texas, when an urgent call came through from Houston: a heart was available for transplant. Cooley raced to the Texas Heart Institute, and by 1:30 the next morning, after a 2½-hour operation, a 43-year-old man from Ohio had a new heart and Cooley had completed only his third such procedure in four years...
...Developed by the Swiss firm Sandoz Ltd., cyclosporine is a natural fungal compound that somehow blocks the production of those white cells that cause rejection but not those that fight infection. Says Dr. Barry Kahan, head of the organ-transplant division of the University of Texas Medical School at Houston and a colleague of Cooley's: "This is the secret ingredient, the thing that unlocks the door to transplants...