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April 1995

  • Features

    • Politics

      The Art of Running for President

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      Phil Gramm is a world-class fundraiser, but it will take more than money to carry him to the White House in 1996.

    • Feature

      Something’s Cooking

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      Meet the hip young chefs at two Texas restaurants that everyone’s buzzing about.

    • Feature

      Clowning Around

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      They crack wise while bulls charge them, and fans eat it up. A look at rodeo’s real ring leaders.

    • Feature

      Drug War!

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      How a small Houston biotech company and a giant California-based rival are battling over who developed what may be a revolutionary cure for asthma and allergies.

    • Feature

      The Case of The Amateur Skull Boilers

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      Led by an owner of a roofing company, a group of novice sleuths solves gruesome crimes in San Antonio. It sounds like a TV show—and it may soon be one.

    • Feature

      Lonesome Cowboy

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      A year after Robert James Waller left Iowa for the quieter climes of Big Bend, the best-selling author is discovering that it’s one thing to live like Texan and quite another to be one.

  • Columns

    • Travel

      Atomic War Fare

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      Now is the time to visit New Mexico, where the A-bomb exploded on the scene half a century ago.

    • Profile

      Net Worker

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      When Susan Hadden was murdered, the country lost a visionary thinker on the information highway and the Internet.

    • Pop Culture

      A Fan’s Notes

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      For sixty years, Austinite Raymond Daum befriended Hollywood’s biggest stars. Now he’s selling off his memories.

    • Music

      Darkness Audible

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      Shawn Colvin, the latest pop émigré to land in Austin, sets the record straight on her long and difficult road to stardom.

    • Food

      Shell Game

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      Son of a gun, you’ll have big fun—and terrific fresh crawfish—at these seven Louisiana seafood joints.

    • Behind the Lines

      A Case of Murder

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      More criminals are condemned to death in the Harris County courthouse than anywhere else in the world.

  • Reporter

  • Web

    • Recipe

      Warm Lobster Tacos

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      Recipe from Dean Fearing, Mansion on Turtle Creek, Dallas. Yellow-Tomato Salsa 1 pound yellow tomatoes or yellow cherry tomatoes, chopped 1 large shallot, minced 1 large clove garlic, minced 2 tablespoons finely minced cilantro 1 tablespoon champagne vinegar or white wine vinegar 2 serrano chiles, seeded and minced 2 teaspoons fresh lime juice 1 tablespoon …

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