The wildfires of the past week, feeding on high winds and low humidity, destroyed more than 1,500 homes in Central Texas, where thousands of residents were forced to evacuate.
Like super agent Jason Bourne, bacterial cells possess the capacity to go off the grid, hiding from antibiotics until danger has passed and then reemerging to attack our immune system, according to scientists at Texas A&M and Brown universities.
Wild horses and raging bulls are the stuff of the rugged Marlboro man more so than a woman. But the livestock and the ranchers of Central Texas have learned to like and respect Amy Jo Pilmer, a veterinarian specializing in large animals.
Texas leads the nation in generating power from coal, and as many as 12 new such plants have been proposed. Environmentalists and the EPA are trying to pour cold water on a new plant in Corpus Christi while city leaders tout the promise of new jobs and investment, a familiar skirmish in a larger war that pits the economy against the environment.
