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This is a column about my parents, two lovely people from Houston, Texas whom I thought I knew well. We have, after all, had a 22-year relationship involving corporal punishment and pooping lessons. They were my mentors, and now that I'm in college, they have in a very unexpected way become my friends. But one letter to the editor about my last column (Join the Harvard Corps, Feb. 29) has made me think about our relationship all over again...
...your 30s or 40s. A good rule of thumb is to begin getting tested 10 years before the youngest age at which colon cancer was diagnosed in any member of your family. "Don't wait for an invitation," says Dr. Bernard Levin of M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas. "Tell your doctor, I want to get screened...
...collected several hundred dollars when she was misheard at the ticket window and given a trifecta she hadn't asked for, but which hit anyway. The entire Habib family got rich when an exacta combining Sweet Charlie (my father's nickname) and Texas Gentleman (my uncle then lived in Houston) defied long odds. I once made the mistake of playing an exacta straight instead of both ways, and was roundly rebuked. To each story was ascribed a moral: never correct a wrong ticket, always pay attention to the names and always box the runners in an exacta. Everybody seemed full...
...been asked by a family friend from Houston to take a prospective student on a brief tour of the campus. Eventually, the high school senior asked me if I could take him to the rec center on campus to check out the workout facilities...
Providence to Houston-Hobby...