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...Michelle's real image that will most likely set the tone for her time in the White House. "She's got an independent streak in her, and she radiates strength and Americana," says Evelyn Gorman, a retailer from Houston, Texas. "It's been a long time since we've had that. She is going to set the tone on a global scale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America's Next Top Model | 1/15/2009 | See Source »

...left-wing Chávez caught Washington by surprise in the fall of 2005 when he announced that Citgo - the Houston-based subsidiary of Venezuela's state-run oil firm, Petróleos de Venezuela - would give millions of gallons of heating oil at half price, and eventually free, to struggling households in the American Northeast and Midwest. By this year, the service has expanded to more than 200,000 families in 23 states. The partisan controversy around it has also grown. Republicans grouse that taking fuel from Chávez, America's chief antagonist in the hemisphere, is unpatriotic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Can't Big Oil Match Hugo Chávez? | 1/7/2009 | See Source »

Minnesotan Brian Becker, who was already on probation for deer-smuggling in Oklahoma, was sentenced to 33 months in federal prison in November. Agents estimated that he had made at least $300,000 smuggling deer to one client in Texas. Houston businessman Robert Eichenaur was sentenced to 18 months in jail and hit with a $50,000 fine. Eichenaur was described by the Fort Worth Star-Telegram as the owner of a "posh hunting ranch" in the small east Texas town of Bedias. The ranch, Circle E, advertises exotic hunts and charges $12,000 or more for a large white...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Are Deer Being Smuggled into Texas? | 1/7/2009 | See Source »

...those same people think they can do better with retirement funds? It is easy to make decisions when the rules don't apply to you. No members of government will have to worry about their pension or medical care. The market works; government does not. Charles van Ravenswaay, HOUSTON...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Road to Mumbai's Tragedy | 12/29/2008 | See Source »

...Houston, Apollo 8," he said. "Please be informed that there is a Santa Claus." And in 1968, at last there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Remembering Apollo 8, Man's First Trip to the Moon | 12/24/2008 | See Source »

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