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...modest Houstonian with the hinted Texas drawl and the no-bones, straight-arrow demeanor leans forward in his seat. Can he succeed in professional baseball...
...discovered or co-discovered 21 comets, including the famous Shoemaker-Levy, which crashed into Jupiter in 1994. While there are only so many planets or visible comets out there, amateurs are making contributions tracking star movements and lunar cycles and even hunting for supernovas. Larry Mitchell, the Houstonian with the 36-in. telescope, spotted his own supernova in 1994, a find that in turn enabled professional astronomers to measure the distance to that exploding star's home galaxy. "The professionals need that data and don't have the time to do it," says LAAS president Jim Strogen. "They rely...
...making me feel very, very small," griped a reader from Los Angeles. Even more despondent was a Californian from Castro Valley, who called our story "the most depressing thing I have ever read. It seems we are doomed no matter what we do. Pass the Prozac." A Houstonian was "extremely distraught to think of the universe as an infinitely large, charred nothing." But in Cincinnati, Ohio, one man put the event in seasonal perspective: "Why must the universe end? There is no answer. Relax. It's summertime. Have an ice-cold beer...
George Bush received a personal reminder about the sour state of the economy last week. The Houstonian Hotel and Conference Center, where the President rents a suite to use as his official residence and where he plans to stay during the Republican Convention in August, filed for bankruptcy under the weight of a $28.7 million debt. The Houstonian's owners say the hotel will continue to operate normally. That's good news for Bush. Because Texas does not have a state income tax, the President can continue to reduce his tax bill by filing his returns from Houston...
...Texas seems to run counter to the rest of the country," a Houstonian told me last month. "Things are turning up. But do you know what made it really depressing around here until recently? It wasn't all the bankruptcies; it was that people weren't busy. Things are getting busy again. People feel a lot better...