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Doctors vs. Parents: Who Decides Right to Life?
Following surgery, Sabrina Martin's condition went south. And then, her family says, Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital set about arranging for her demise.
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Mental Anguish at Texas West Oaks Hospital
Go to this private psychiatric facility, and you might be helped. Or you might be shut in a room all alone and end up like Amanda, with a broken arm. Or dead.
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Cleaning Up Foreclosed Homes After the Mortgage Crisis
Junk haulers expand their business in the wake of evictees leaving behind houses in terrible condition
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College Immaterial for High School Students in Vocational Training
Good paying jobs, no huge loan burdens, exciting course work — the new vo-tech attracts more and more hi-tech students
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Nuevo Inca-Mex at Inka South American Cuisine
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Doctors vs. Parents: Who Decides Right to Life? (12)
Following surgery, Sabrina Martin's condition went south. And then, her family says, Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital set about arranging for her demise.
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An evening with perennial Houston street hustlers Big Body Click (11)
Square Business
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Mental Anguish at Texas West Oaks Hospital (11)
Go to this private psychiatric facility, and you might be helped. Or you might be shut in a room all alone and end up like Amanda, with a broken arm. Or dead.
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College Immaterial for High School Students in Vocational Training (6)
Good paying jobs, no huge loan burdens, exciting course work — the new vo-tech attracts more and more hi-tech students
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Do You Have Multiple Personality Disorder? (7)
Years after Sybil, the debate continues
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A Tribute to Bea and the Gals
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Last Night: Elvis Costello and The Police in the Woodlands
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A Fall from Glory for Hruska’s Grocery & Bakery?
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National Features
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SF Weekly
Viva Farolito!
Former pros from Latin America help make an "amateur" soccer team unstoppable.
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Village Voice
The Barely Legal Empire of Tony Alamo
A nutty polygamist pastor rebuilds his church--with help from New Yorkers.
By Maria Luisa Tucker -
Miami New Times
Love is No Contract
A Florida man sues his girlfriend-for dumping him.
By Isaiah Thompson
Iron Maiden emerged from East London in the mid-1970s, and their defiantly metal middle finger to that city's punk explosion was, intentionally or otherwise, punk as fuck. Main-man/bassist Steve Harris had a vision of something timeless; 20-plus arena-filling years later, it seems he had a point. Sidestepping the obvious head-bangin' influences of their era — Led Zeppelin's blues-based swagger and Black Sabbath's lurching doom — Maiden instead took cues from Thin Lizzy and UFO, developing an almost militaristic, galloping twin-guitar (now triple-guitar) trademark capped with Bruce Dickinson's alternately street-level/quasi-operatic vocals and lyrics that were more War and Peace than sex and sleaze. Iron Maiden are debatably the biggest cult band in America — they've never enjoyed substantial airplay or an "MTV heyday" here — and this kinda-sorta-comeback tour promises to focus on the band's '80s classics ("Run to the Hills," "2 Minutes to Midnight," etc.) amid a stage set based on their epic 1984-'85 Powerslave trek: Think middle-aged hesher guitarists scampering about the Luxor Hotel — with a giant robotic zombie.
