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May 17, 2010
Tobi Oyedeji's After-Prom Accident: Sleep Deprivation Can Be As Bad As Drinking For Teens
Bellaire High's Tobi OyedejiHouston police are still investigating Sunday's early-morning crash caused by a Bellaire teen coming home from the school's official after-prom party, and the school itself is still in shock at the death of a popular, hard-working basketball star.(The family of the 50- ... More >>
News
February 19, 2009
Calorie Restrictors Stay Hungry in Hopes of Living Longer
An SMU biologist searches to unlock the secrets to the fountain of youth
Blogs
July 18, 2008
Galveston -- Exhibit A Against Offshore Drilling?
News
March 31, 2005
Wretched Excess
Sludge, spread across the land, makes some people vomit and others very rich
News
January 3, 2002
Agent of Doom
Former enemies unite against the continuing fallout from deadly defoliants of the Vietnam War
News
March 2, 2000
See George Educate
A Texas journalist gives George W. Bush his due
News
June 3, 1999
Immune to Reason
Hundreds of thousands of Texas children, including 250,000 newborn babies, are routinely vaccinated against hepatits B each year. Why? Good question.
News
August 20, 1998
Biological Disaster
Zonagen Inc. took its name from Bonnie Dunbar's groundbreaking research into contraceptive vaccines. Then, when she wasn't looking, the company took her research.
News
March 20, 1997
The Angelides Affair
A dispute over research fraud has split the faculty at Baylor College of Medicine, and could jeopardize the way universities police scientific misconduct
News
June 29, 1995
Dead in the water
Bothered by shrinking catches, growing regulations and a sense of frustration, Galveston Bay's shrimpers say that they, not the shrimp, are the endangered species.