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Scorched Earth
This summer’s hot topic? Weather.
September 1, 1998 | by Gregory Curtis | Behind the Lines
Getting Out
Now playing: Houston’s Fifth Ward.
May 1, 1998 | by Gregory Curtis | Behind the Lines
The Bridge
What the University of Houston can teach Texas.
April 1, 1999 | by Gregory Curtis | Behind the Lines
Happy Babble
George H. W. Bush's commencement speech at Southern Methodist University was long on rhetoric and short on specifics. 
July 1, 1992 | by Gregory Curtis | Behind the Lines
Film Fatale
Bright lights and movie madness in Big D.
June 1, 1973 | by Gregory Curtis | Feature
Good-bye to a Horse
She named him Mark. I didn’t know why, any more than I knew why my daughter was drawn to riding in the first place. But I did know that she loved him—and that letting him go was the hardest thing she’d ever done.
March 1, 2004 | by Gregory Curtis | Feature
Disaster, Part One: Lubbock
West Texans are going to have to figure out what they’re going to do when the well runs dry.
December 1, 1974 | by Gregory Curtis | Feature

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