They worked hard, overcame obstacles, bucked conventional wisdom, and touched our lives. Meet the most impressive, intriguing, and influential Texans of 1998.

Feet accompli.

A blast from the pastor.

Auditing the IRS.

The great defender.

Read all about her.

Game Boy.

Grammy came home.

A recipe for success.

The host with the most.

The doctor is in.

As the Worm turns.

Diversity U.

A matter of life and death.

Teen screen queen.

An impressive impresario.

Poetry in motion.

Sculpting a legacy.

Co-anchor aweigh.

Man makes the clothes.

Hello, good buy.

This summer’s hot topic? Weather.

At Texas’ top industrial design firm, the old style-versus-substance debate is a nonstarter: Why choose when you can have both?

Long before they were chart-topping musicians, Erykah Badu and Roy Hargrove made the grade at an arts magnet school in Dallas.

Sexist, shmexist: For pure viewing enjoyment, my feminist friends and I know that nothing can match the Miss America Pageant.

An anxious, alcoholic, stressed, and depressed Dallasite. A suicidal San Antonian. For each, a seemingly visionary treatment.

Why the Austin American-Stateman’s film critic is under seige.

Who gave—and to whom—in this year’s big statewide races.

The charter school craze hits Texas.

A Lake Jackson teacher goes to the head of New York publishing’s class.

Advice for the new coaches of the Dallas Cowboys and the UT Longhorns.

Which soft drink’s quart-size bottle did Lee trevino use as a golf club?

For and against George W. Bush; Wichita Falls bites back.