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Scientists are deploying an advanced research aircraft to study a region of the atmosphere that influences climate change by affecting Earth's thermal balance.

Submitted by News Account on 12 June 2008 - 12:00am. Atmospheric Scientists are deploying an advanced research aircraft to study a region of the atmosphere that influences climate change by affecting the amount ...

Nonpoint Scout Bar, 19314 U.S. 281 N., 512-7469 Alt-metal/rap quartet from Miami that's a veteran of Ozzfest heads a lineup that also includes the Exies, Deepfield and Under the Flood. via MySanAntonio.com

“They're all wearing T-shirts with my face on them”

It's 10:45 a.m. in Las Vegas. Backstage at the Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino, Miss Washington USA is surrounded by gorgeous women in robes and rollers, curling their eyelashes and fixing their nails for ... via Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Home Depot Honors 'Hispanic Contractor of the Year' At last month's International Builders' Show in Orlando, The Home Depot presented Chicago-based Bronzeville Construction with its 2008 Hispanic Contractor of ... via Nation's Building News

“EMS in the state of Texas is under funded and kind of an afterthought in a lot of areas”

The Emergency Services Foundation of Texas has one goal in mind and that's to beef up EMS services throughout the Panhandle. via KVII-TV Amarillo

“Our new venue at Pier 40 provides us with extraordinary opportunities. The larger location permits us to expand our programming and open up new avenues for discourse in contemporary art.”

Laurina Paperina, Krusty the Clown, 2007, Mixed media on cardboard, Courtesy of perugi artecontemporanea. via Art Daily

There is a lot on which to recommend the Dallas Opera's production of George Gerswhin's masterpiece Porgy and Bess. For one, it's a co-production with the Houston Grand Opera, Cleveland Opera, Los Angeles Music Center Opera, Greater Miami Opera, San Diego Opera, San Francisco Opera, Seattle Opera and Boston's Wang Center for the Performing Arts. For two, it features Indira Mahajan as Bess (she won the Dallas Opera's Maria Callas Debut Artist of the Year award in 2004) and acclaimed baritone Gordon Hawkins as Porgy. For three, it features dancers from the Dallas Black Dance Theatre. And finally, some proceeds from Thursday's performance benefit the United Negro College Fund. Read more

Last Wednesday we ran a question from a reader looking for places to dine that were quiet and lent themselves to having a conversation without having to shout to be heard. via MySanAntonio.com

The Texas Association of Counties named Roberts County Judge Vernon Cook the group's president-elect on Thursday. via Amarillo.com

Correspondence to Gail E. Peterson, Division of Cardiology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, 5909 Harry Hines Blvd, HA9.133, Dallas, TX 75235-9047. E-mail Gail.Peterson{at}UTSouthwestern.edu ... via Circulation

Wedding: Kate Peirce and Jeff Miller 11-18-2007 Kate Elizabeth Peirce and Jeff Wayne Miller exchanged wedding vows Aug. via Plainview Daily Herald

“I think it's ludicrous an eight-acre water district (in the Panhandle) could use eminent domain in downtown Houston”

Oilman Boone Pickens has been trying for seven years to move billions of gallons of water from underneath the northeastern Panhandle to urban Texas. via Houston Chronicle

Posted September 23rd, 2007 by Guy Vanderpool in Local Opinions Homer Ratliff, Jr. via The Canyon News, Canyon, Texas