Message-ID: <3921509.1075857099380.JavaMail.evans@thyme> Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 16:50:00 -0800 (PST) From: houstonchronicle-metro@chron-news.com To: alewis@ect.enron.com Subject: HoustonChronicle.com Metropolitan News for Dec 11, 2000 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-From: HoustonChronicle-metro X-To: "alewis@ect.enron.com" X-cc: X-bcc: X-Folder: \Andrew_Lewis_Dec2000\Notes Folders\All documents X-Origin: Lewis-A X-FileName: alewis.nsf Hello! The HoustonChronicle.com Metropolitan section for Mon. Dec. 11, 200= 0 =20 delivers news and information at the click of a button. If you ever wish to= =20 stop this email to alewis@ect.enron.com, just click this address: =20 http://www.chron.com/mail/nph-unity.mpl?id=3D-1642951136 =20 ? ? ? [IMAGE] [IMAGE] [IMAGE] [IMAGE] [IMAGE] HoustonChronicle.com Email Services: You can change your HoustonChronicle.com Email settings, or unsubscribe this list. =20 Business Columnists Comics Community Deaths Editorials Entertainment Games Health & Medicine Lifestyle/Features Lottery METRO/STATE =01=07 Education =01=07 This Week Nation Politics Space Chronicle Sports Technology Traffic Travel Weather World AP Breaking News E The People Forums Funplanet HomeArts News Audio News Specials People Pages This Week Archives Corrections=20 E-mail products Help Advertising Info Privacy policy Report a problem Sitemap To contact us: E-mail: hci@chron.com Office phone:=20 713-220-2700 Main Switchboard: 713-220-7171 Address:=20 Houston Chronicle 801 Texas Ave. Houston, Texas 77002 =20 [IMAGE]Links to other U.S. papers=20 =09?=09Mon. Dec. 11, 2000=20 =09=09 =09=09 =09=09 =09=09TODAY'S METROPOLITAN STORIES =09=09from the pages of the Houston Chronicle =09=09 =09=09A Santa celebrates turnaround=20 =09=09When Danny Grant peers into the mirror at the Salvation Army family s= helter=20 Christmas Eve, he'll see the face of a man serene in self-knowledge. But fo= r=20 the Salvation Army Santa, the jollity will be tempered by the memory of a= =20 Christmas Day when he saw the visage of a man who had spent nearly a decade= =20 on the streets.=20 =09=09Admissions issue may go to high court=20 =09=09 A recent federal appellate court ruling in California has increased = the=20 chances that the U.S. Supreme Court eventually will decide whether race can= =20 be used as a factor in college admissions, legal experts said. =20 =09=09Two Houstonians win Rhodes scholarships=20 =09=09 Two college seniors from Houston -- one who is majoring in philosoph= y but=20 wants to be a law professor and another who is majoring in architecture but= =20 wants to study archaeology -- have been named Rhodes scholars.=20 =09=09Texans may be the youngest to fly around world=20 =09=09A Rice University student and his friend made history Sunday when the= y landed=20 at West Houston Airport, becoming possibly the youngest pilots ever to fly= =20 around the world. =20 =09=09Tiger cub dies after bypass at Texas A=02?=20 =09=09 Karma, dubbed America's Tiger Cub by well-wishers, died about seven = hours=20 after an unprecedented heart bypass, Texas A=02? University officials said= =20 Sunday. =20 =09=09Shooting death shatters storekeeper family=20 =09=09Hala Baba knew something terrible had happened to her husband the ins= tant she=20 saw the yellow crime tape. Five years ago, she walked into the same shoppi= ng=20 center and found her brother dead on the floor of the doughnut shop where h= e=20 worked. =20 =09=09INS ploy suspected in 5 rapes=20 =09=09Partially clad man killed at apartments=20 =09=09Gas leak closes stretch of road near Lubbock=20 =09=09Plan for drug crackdown gets rave reviews=20 =09=09Area briefs=20 =09=09Crimestoppers=20 =09=09 =09=09 =09=09=09?