January 1993
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Features
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Clash of the Cyberpunks
When teens from Austin and New York started an electronic gang war, it seemed like another harmless computer game—until the FBI and the Secret Service stepped in.
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Shooting Stars
With wit and grit, Amarillo-born photographer Mark Seliger persuades reluctant celebrities to show their true selves.
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Greetings From Dogpatch
Bill Clinton’s Arkansas isn’t the backwater you might think.
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Scarred
Not long after she made her trek from Texas to New York, Marla Hanson saw her modeling career end at the hands of a razor-wielding thug. Six years later, the cuts on her face have healed, but the emotional wounds remain.
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The 1993 Bum Steer Awards
It was a year of absent Alamos, buried Barbies, castrated calves, derriere drawings, errant escalators, filching frats, grid-iron graduates, hightailing hoopsters, income-tax immigrants, jailed joggers, Keating kudos, lascivious linksters, mercenary morticians, nonoffensive nachos, overdrawn officials, Perot pumpkins, querulous quackers, relaxed Rangers, safe-sex students, testosterone teeth, undersea upraisings, visionary vacuumers, wounded whinniers, X-iled X-pectorators, yielding York, and zealous zoners.
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Columns
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The Sound of Música
Texas’ tejano radio stations dish out a spicy mix of music and patter in English and Spanish, and the ratings are magnifico.
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Border Bonanza
Look for Texas to win big with North American free trade, as U.S. exports boom and Mexican companies migrate north.
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Water Babies
Deepwater Gulf shrimp get all the press, but the sweetest, most succulent shrimp in Texas come from the bays.
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Frozen Assets
Amy Miller built an Austin ice cream empire based on equal parts business savvy and zaniness. But will her winning formula travel?
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Reporter
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A Natural Phenomenon
A Hill Country ecobusiness discovers that green is also the color of money.
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Engraved in Stone
An ancient cache of pebbles and flints yields North America’s oldest art.
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Bunker Mentality
A small town hunkers down for a court fight with Bunker Hunt’s bankruptcy trustee.
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Web
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Grilled Eggplant
2 large Roma tomatoes, halved, seeded, and thinly sliced 1/2 large red onion, halved and thinly sliced 1 bottle rice vinegar 1 large eggplant Olive oil 1 – 2 tablespoons grated mozzarella cheese (per serving) 1/2 teaspoon balsamic vinegar (per serving) 1/2 teaspoon olive oil (per serving) Marinate tomato and onion in rice vinegar (enough …
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Sesame-Crusted Scallops
3 tablespoons fresh grated ginger 8 cloves garlic, peeled and chopped 1/2 cup peanut oil 1/8 cup soy sauce 1/4 cup fresh lime juice 3 tablespoons honey 3 tablespoons sesame seed oil 1 egg 2 pounds fresh sea scallops 6 tablespoons each black and white sesame seeds (black sesame seeds available at ethnic groceries and …
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Miscellany
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State Fare
In 1980, when Armando Miranda took his first job in America as a line cook, he barely knew a muffin from a mousse. That has changed. In his peregrinations through prominent Houston restaurants, including the River Cafe, he taught himself to cook. Even today he’s a free spirit. “I don’t go to books for recipes,” …