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...article in The Daily Texan last Thursday implied that Robert D. Woodberry of the University of Texas was challenging a 2003 study on the relationship between religion and economic growth authored by Harvard economics professor Robert J. Barro and his wife Rachel M. McCleary, a senior research fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School...
...been a little over a week since 13 people were gunned down on the U.S. Army base at Fort Hood. The impact of the killings still reverberates from the base in the heart of Killeen, Texas. Now, the start of a glorious fall weekend promises this central Texan town a hint of normalcy, but true normal - weekend football, shopping, yard work and worship - will take longer to return, especially to the community's Muslims...
Somewhere, the ghost of Lyndon B. Johnson is smiling. Senator Olympia Snowe's lone Republican vote for health-care reform in the Senate Finance Committee didn't just advance an issue close to LBJ's heart--as President, the Texan signed Medicare into law--it was also a masterstroke in political leverage. And no one loved Senate politics more than he. Snowe's yea earned her--a member of a weakened minority, from the lovely but not very influential state of Maine--a voice in the small group hashing out the final version of the bill. In the Senate...
...doing so, Sims made it possible for brown girls everywhere to embrace their inner black beauty. We all know that junior high can be rough, but just imagine being a nearly 6-ft.-tall girl with both braces and glasses growing up in a place like Texas, where fellow Texan Farrah Fawcett, with her silky blond hair, sparkling blue eyes and golden tan, remains the standard of beauty...
...Eyeworks, which is still working out the exact details of the deal with Suleman, had its biggest reality hit to date in the U.K. with last year's Half Ton Mum, a one-hour show about Texan Renee Williams, who died at the age of 29, weighing nearly 900 lb. (400 kg). Her two adolescent daughters, Mirina and Mariah, narrated the program...