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Big Men on Campus
The first time John Jones played football for Cedar Hill High School, he was a 240-pound freshman who knew so little about the game he trotted into Longhorn Stadium with his shoulder pads on backward....
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Creature From the Green Lagoon
The first signs of trouble appeared in the summer of 2006. That July, locals began posting queries on fishing blogs, asking about the strange plants they’d seen on the waters hugging the bank at Jeems...
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Peter Hotez vs. Measles and the Anti-Vaccination Movement
One afternoon in October 2016, Peter Hotez holed up in his office at Houston’s Baylor College of Medicine, where he is the dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine. Surrounded by obscure...
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How Unproven Stem Cell Therapies Are Costing Desperate Patients
Elaine Dilley and her husband live in Brazoria County, south of Houston, on an eight-acre lot with pecan and oak trees and a well-stocked pond. Her mother lives there too, in a little green house at...
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Broken Pelvises, Collapsed Lungs, and Decades of Winning: Barrel Racing’s...
The race at Rodeo Austin should have been just one more rung on Martha Josey’s climb through barrel racing history. She was already rodeo royalty—a former world champion and National Cowgirl Museum and...
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A Dallas Startup Aims to Build a Big Business—and Transform Lives—by Curing...
Babies born with spinal muscular atrophy often live brief, heartbreaking lives. They miss key developmental milestones. They cry weakly. They can’t roll over. They never sit up on their own or feed...
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