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January 1987

  • Features

    • Feature

      The National Tour of Texas

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      I’ve long dreamed of driving every highway in Texas. This year I’m doing it—all 32,000 miles worth.

    • Feature

      No Promises

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      I arrived in Houston at the height of the boom, and left just as the bust began. Along the way I learned what it means to grow up.

    • Feature

      Total Hit

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      One morning last August, a San Antonio patrolman told his superior officer that his best friend was a killer cop. By that afternoon, the killer cop was dead, the patrolman was claiming self-defense, and a city infamous for strange killings was in the midst of one of the strangest of all.

    • Feature

      Between a Hard Rock and a Place

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      The world’s hottest restaurant chain turns into Texas’ hottest restaurant feud.

    • Feature

      1987 Bum Steer Awards

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      A year of anguished Arabs, bigshot bankrupts, crazy cookbooks, despoiled dinosaurs, exhibitionist editors, foiled fugitives, greens-eating graduates, half-cocked hashish, in flagrante inmates, jolly jailers, kinky kilocycles, late lobsters, moistened mayors, and northbound Nicaraguans.

    • Feature

      The Coronary Bypass

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      In Texas, survivors of this life-and-death operation wear their scars like medals of honor.

  • Columns

  • Reporter

    • Reporter

      Texas Monthly Reporter

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      The citizens of Muleshoe lose their only hospital, thanks to a California chain; the citizens of Houston learn the value of caution, thanks to a local developer; the citizens of the world get a chance to improve their potency, thanks to the Aggies.

  • Miscellany