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Fastow is married to a woman he met at Tufts, Lea Weingarten, whose family built a supermarket and real estate empire based in Houston. They were not social climbers, for good reason. "Lea is from an old Houston family," says Marti Mayo, executive director of the Contemporary Arts Museum. "She didn't need to move anywhere. She was there." For most of the Roaring Nineties, the Fastows did not play the power couple; instead they lived like other professionals in the West University area and raised two children. They worked together at Enron's finance divisions in the early...
...PLAY BALL Bankrupt Enron wouldn't seem to have a lot of extra cash to throw around these days. But last week it made a $90,000 payment for its box-seat tickets at Enron Field, home to the Houston Astros, and on Jan. 22 it remitted $108,000 for a luxury suite. Both payments are required as part of the 1999 deal in which Enron agreed to pay $100 million for naming rights to the stadium for the next 30 years. Enron says it is merely honoring its contractual obligation. However, it has forfeited on another contractual obligation...
Eventually, women may be able to forgo surgery entirely. Doctors at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center at the University of Texas in Houston and the Weill Cornell Center in New York City are experimenting with high-frequency radio waves that can literally cook tumors from the inside. Using ultrasound to guide them, doctors insert a multipronged probe into a tumor. The prongs open up like the spokes of an umbrella and melt malignant cells without burning surrounding breast tissue. So far, the procedure has been performed only on women who were planning to get a mastectomy or lumpectomy anyway...
...Clinical Oncology in May, a group of cancer experts will recommend that these minute malignancies be left alone, as long as the original breast tumor is small. "We used to seek out and destroy every cell," says Dr. Eva Singletary, a breast surgeon at the M.D. Anderson Center in Houston, who chairs the expert panel. "Now we try to target and control our treatment...
These are painful times for Houston. Not only must it watch as former executives of Enron, the once celebrated hometown company, turn on one another, take the Fifth or claim memory loss before Congress, the city must also figure out how, after being so marked by Enron's presence, to cope after the disgrace. A guide to Enron's Houston...