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When they finally boarded a bus for Houston, one of them was threatened at gunpoint by a thug from a rival housing project. They arrived at the Astrodome 16 hours later, only to be told they might not be able to stay. But in the milling crowd, Cheryl Graves, 47, stepped forward to invite all 20 of them to stay at her three-bedroom house in northwest Houston. Why would she take in total strangers? "Humanity," she says. "They can be here as long as they want." --By Nathan Thornburgh. With reporting by Deborah Fowler/Houston
...straw into the ground and sucking out all the liquid: ultimately you pull up the very material that's holding up the surrounding terrain. One study found that the greatest loss of Gulf wetlands coincided with the greatest extraction of oil and gas in the 1970s and '80s. Houston is thought to be sinking for much the same reason...
Several days before Katrina struck, John Walker shut down production and evacuated crews from the oil and gas fields that his company operates in the Mississippi Delta. The CEO of EnerVest, a Houston energy-asset-management firm, was luckier than most. Katrina spared four of his fields, though the damage to a fifth was ugly. The storm blew a barge five miles down the bayou from its moorings in marshy Garden Island Bay. Nearly every piece of oil equipment was destroyed, and Walker estimates it will take several months to get that field running at full capacity. "When there...
...Paul Wall, Ali & Gipp “Grillz” Dir. Fat Cats I always suspected that Paul Wall is actually Santa Claus sans beard and outfit. I don’t have any proof. Perhaps the rising cost of elf insurance has forced Santa to work summers in Houston as a grill dealer? After watching him dance, rap, and generally look awful—but ever jovial–in the video for Nelly’s “Grills,” my suspicions are all but confirmed: Paul Wall is none other than St. Nicholas himself...
ISABELLA FALCONER Houston...