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...June at the latest, the NFL will announce a realignment plan with a keener eye towards location in order to accommodate the Houston Texans in 2002. Those fictitious eight-year olds who use the NFL standings as their trusty atlas will finally have a fighting a chance in our nation's schools--unless they're from Dallas...
Today Bailey is a ventilator-dependent quadriplegic confined to a room at the Institute for Rehabilitation and Research in Houston. In December she turned 44, struggling to learn how to navigate a wheelchair she directs via a breathing tube. Though not a bitter person by nature, she wants justice for missing out on her kids' lives, not to mention her own. So this week, in a Corpus Christi courtroom, Bailey's lawyers will take on Ford Motor Co. and its tire supplier, Bridgestone/Firestone. The charge: that a defective tire--and more important, a defective car--took her livelihood. The principal...
NERVE TRANSPLANT In a surgical first, Houston doctors transplanted nerves from a living donor to her infant son. To repair torn nerves in eight-month-old Rodrigo Cervantes Corona's left shoulder and arm, doctors took 3 ft. of neural tissue from his mother's legs and tracked it from the right side of his body to his left hand. The transplanted nerves will act as a conduit to allow the baby's undamaged right-hand nerves to grow over to his left side. The mother will feel a bit of numbness on each side of her feet...
...group got its start around 1990 in Houston, with Beyonce and LaTavia Roberson, who were soon joined by Kelendria ("Kelly") Rowland and LeToya Luckett. Mathew Knowles, Beyonce's father, took over as manager, eventually quitting his job selling MRI and CT scanners. Although based in the Lone Star State, the group turned to Motown for inspiration...
...fact, be required reading for everyone in politics and the commentariat. It might reintroduce them to the bracing idea of moral independence, the idea of telling popularity, money and the media to go to hell. Kennedy studied the behavior of politicians (Quincy Adams, Daniel Webster, Thomas Hart Benton, Sam Houston, Robert A. Taft, and others) who took profoundly principled but unpopular stands, even at the risk of their own careers...