February 1991

Features
Kristin Bauman, the 21-year-old with a $1.2 million trust fund, learned early on that notoriety is far more seductive than propriety.
Pipeline leaks, unplugged wells, toxic drilling materials, and a virtually unregulated oil industry are leaving a legacy of polluted groundwater.
To reassure a skeptical public, members must pass an ethics reform bill this session. And here’s what it should say.
You can take the girl out of East Texas, but you can’t take East Texas out of the girl.
Miscellany
With clean, well-lighted places-filled with bargains-Forth Worth-based Cash America is spiffing up the sullied image of pawnshops.
A tiny Houston delivery firm did-and now it has the broadest trucking rights ever granted in Texas.
Dean Fearing, the guitar- strumming executive chef at Dallas’ swanky Mansion on Turtle Creek, hits all the right notes when he’s in the kitchen. The Eastern Kentucky native and graduate of New York’s Culinary Institute came to Texas in 1979 to explore new frontiers in cooking and ended up…
Columns
Nearly two years after the Exxon Valdez relations gurus are busy telling industries how to avoid looking bad.
Love, love, kiss, kiss: New York’s hippest store meets Texas’ fashion capital.

Carrollton’s Vanilla Ice is the country’s coolest rapper, and several other Texas acts are hot on his heels.
In 1957 General Walker warned his troops of rampant communism and lost his job. Today the world has changed, but he hasn’t.
Reporter
Singers Edie Brickell and Sara Hickman share a formula for success attend the right school and take up art.
Refugees from a polluted world do battle for a toxic-free zone in the Trans-Pecos.
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