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Since it was launched in 1973 by Reporter-turned-Lawyer Michael R. Levy, 30, Texas Monthly has taken on just about every sacred steer in the Lone Star State: college football, the Miss Texas Pageant, oil barons, the Texas Rangers, Dallas banks. TM's exposure of a backwoods speed trap near San Antonio that collected fines of $168,000 a year led to suits by the county and a nearby town. No Texas legislator on TM's biennial "ten best" list has ever been defeated, while 40% of those listed among the "ten worst" are out of office...
...nothing. Even in the exceedingly rare case of Reischauer's royalty income, which for one East Asian textbook reaches the $4000-mark annually, the author says the return is a "complete drop in the bucket" in terms of his annual salary. "If people want to write for money, they steer away from textbooks and concentrate on magazine articles. Royalties from academic books are inconsequential," Reischauer says...
Hatched in open sores on cattle, their screw-shaped larvae can literally eat their way through a live steer. For years, they were a major scourge of the cattle country in the U.S. Southwest. It was not until the 1960s that screwworm flies were brought under control by a cunning form of biological warfare. Millions of flies, bred in a factory in Mission, Texas, were irradiated with sterilizing doses of gamma rays and released into the wild. When sterile males mated with normal females, which make only one sexual contact during their two or three weeks of life, the unions...
...city selectman and a trustee of the local hospital and serves on the planning commission. Dan Theno of Ashland, Wis., is active in the Elks and the Jaycees. Richard Bell is a Georgia Tech alumni trustee and a member of the Atlanta leadership group that has helped steer that city to its current state of excellence. Hallie Wiggins, who runs the office for her husband's sewer and water facilities construction business in Portland, Ore., works with the Y.W.C.A. and the women's prison council, which won a battle for separate women's prison facilities...
...still uncompleted story, those who distrust reason have had the better of the argument. Given total liberty, men seem too often to steer toward the state of savagery as if that were their true, natural home. There is also the possibility that reason in time will lose the religious and moral grounding it has today and turn into a mere mechanical instrument, unable to guide man through his most difficult problems. The Americans, however, may yet write a new, brighter chapter to man's story. While trusting in reason as no other men in government have before them...