Texas Legislature Accomplishments Highlighted by Perry
Lt Gov Perry outlines Texas Legislature gains to children in a morning briefing. Andrews battles three opponents at Class 4A state baseball tourney. New mothers extend hospital stay by about half a day amid drive by deliveries concerns. Former President Bush marks 75th birthday with parachute jump. Authorities detain 270 Central Americans awaiting bus rides north. State launches homebuyer education to boost ownership for low to moderate income Texans.
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NAACP and LULAC to discuss Huntsman worries at Odessa meeting
A joint Odessa NAACP and LULAC meeting is set for 6 p.m. at Ector Junior High School auditorium to review activities since the last mass meeting on the Huntsman plant emissions. More than 3,100 residents signed health complaints to the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission about the flare that smoked from late December to early January. Huntsman said the flare occurred when its expanded olefins plant went online.
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LULAC
Ector
Huntsman
Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission
Jobs Wanted ads advertised for oil slowdown workers
The Odessa American runs free Jobs Wanted classified ads on page 70 today for workers displaced by the oil sector downturn. Contact the classified ad department at 333-7777 or visit www.oa0oa.com to place or view listings.
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Odessa
Classified
Odessa American
Mix-up delays Clover House paychecks
Ted Painter, Clover House executive director, cites a misrouted payroll causing unpaid salaries for 90 employees. state and federal probes linger over finances and misconduct by a former executive director. funds mistakenly wired to Permian Basin Community Centers due to confusion with Permian Basin Rehabilitation House. officials say the money should be restored today.
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Ted Painter
Clover House
Painter
Texas Department of Corrections
TDC
Permian Basin
Midland
Permian Basin Rehabilitation House
DNA microdot hides secret message in human DNA
In Nature researchers led by Carter Bancroft at Mount Sinai School of Medicine describe a microdot scheme that conceals a coded message within a single DNA dot amid millions of strands. The method, likened to Where's Waldo, demonstrates DNA’s vast information capacity for concealing data.
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Nature
Carter Bancroft
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
New York
Bancroft
Waldo
Clinton orders data on race and gender in stops
President Clinton directed federal law agencies to collect race and gender data on people they stop or arrest to curb racial profiling. The plan, spanning Treasury Justice and Interior, aims to set a 120 day development timeline with field tests within 60 days, encouraging state and local adoption. Reggie Shuford of the ACLU commented on the move.
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Clinton
New York
Pittsburgh
Riverside
Calif
Treasury, Justice and Interior Departments
Reggie Shuford
American Civil Liberties Union
Generals Sign peace agreement near Kosovo end of NATO strikes
After 78 days of airstrikes Yugoslav and Western generals signed a pact at a French base near the Kosovo border paving a Kosovo peace plan. NATO will halt bombing once Yugoslav troops begin withdrawal and refugees can return. Clinton and Solana welcomed the accord while NATO monitors ensure orderly troop pullout.
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Kumanovo
Macedonia
NATO
Kosovo
Svetozar Marjanovic
Brussels
Belgium
Javier Solana
Solana
Clinton
Bethesda
WWII chemical training kits may lie buried near Abilene
Environmental analysts search Dyess Air Force Base property for World War II era chemical training kits that may have been buried when land was Tye Army Air Field. Mitretek researchers and base officials say disposal practices of the era could leave non threating residues and that the largely unused land offers potential sites.
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Dyess Air Force Base
Tye Army Air Field
Tye
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Dyess
Air Combat Command
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South Dakota
Ellsworth
ACC
Martha Bodden
Mitretek Systems
Mitretek
Department of Defense
National Archives
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Maj
John Boyle
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