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...Though Houston no longer relies so heavily on the energy business (down to 48% of the local economy from 82% in 1982) the turnaround sure feels good after the city lost more than 15,000 energy-sector jobs two years ago, says Barton Smith, director of the Institute for Regional Forecasting at the University of Houston. It has gained those jobs back, plus some. Says Smith: "The current boom is what's keeping Houston afloat while the rest of the country is suffering...
None of this matters to real Houston lovers, of course. They're just interested in bragging rights. After a bad decade, they're beginning to sound like the biggest and the best in Texas again. "Boomlet?" says Laura Schwartz, spokeswoman at Enron. "It's more than a mini-boom. It's a boom...
...prepares to embark on a state visit to Latin American that will include stops in New York City and Houston, Chen is readying a turn on the global stage. In Beijing, his plan to visit the U.S. has caused barely a blip. China is "firmly opposed" to the visit, of course, but since Chen took office, Beijing's position has been to have no position on him. State-run media have yet to mention his name. And Chen's offer last week to meet his Chinese counterpart, Jiang Zemin, was flatly rejected by the Chinese...
Sure enough, they found one. Dr. John Mendelsohn, then at the University of California, San Diego, and now president of the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, had been focusing since 1981 on a receptor called EGFR, which is host to a protein called epidermal growth factor (EGF). It's a close cousin to HER2, and Mendelsohn and his team know that it is present in a huge variety of tumors; two-thirds of all cancer types, in fact, are blanketed with EGF receptors. In 1984 Mendelsohn and his team showed in mice that blocking the EGF receptor with...
President Bush's policy on carbon dioxide emissions demands serious opposition, and this can only start with the American public. Having spent three months in Houston during the summer of last year, I had firsthand experience of unacceptable levels of pollution and suffered considerable discomfort. I found it amusing that the locals believed plant allergies and pollen caused the majority of respiratory problems, and yet there was hardly a piece of greenery in sight! DAVID G. HARRIS Cape Town...