Community Voice Mail helps homeless land jobs and housing
Mel Cornelison, once living on Dallas streets, now earns $5.68 an hour at a Goodwill warehouse after joining Community Voice Mail. The program links phoneless individuals to employers and services, expanding to 37 cities in 19 states with a $2.5 million Cisco grant to reach the 50 largest cities by 2008.
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Dallas
Cornelison
Goodwill Industries
Denver
Hilary Terlouw
Bellingham
Wash
YMCA
Terlouw
Cisco Systems Foundation
Tanker fire snarls busy Houston freeway
A tanker truck exploded into a large fireball after crashing into two vehicles on Interstate 610 near US 59 in southwest Houston. Five people were taken to hospital with non life threatening injuries as responders halted traffic on the busy route.
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Houston
Fire Department
Jack Williams
Interstate 610
US 59
Poll finds drop in Texas support for Iraq war
In Texas the 2004 Summer Poll shows 56 percent support war in Iraq, 38 percent oppose, and 6 percent unsure. Conducted Aug 9-26 by Scripps Research Center in Abilene with 1,000 adults, margin of error plus or minus 3 points amid ongoing An Najaf clashes.
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Houston
Iraq
Bush
Scripps Research Center
Abilene
U.S
An Najaf
Muqtada al- Sadr
America
United States
Sudden Illness Kills Houston Zoo Elephant Kimba
A 13 year old female Asian elephant named Kimba died at the Houston Zoo after displaying signs of illness on Monday. Zoo spokesman Brian Hill said she was separated from the herd and treated with antivirus drugs and had no appetite. A necropsy will determine the cause with tissue samples sent to Texas A&M lab. Kimba spent her entire life at the zoo among five other elephants.
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Houston
Houston Zoo
Kimba
Zoo
Brian Hill
Hill
Texas Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Lab
Texas A&m
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Julie Clark
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