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    I do wish Continental did what Hawaiian Airlines did and offered free meals in addition to extra buy on board options. Maybe what Continental should do is try to sell distinctly Houston products (food products from Houston area chains and/or specialties from the Houston area, such as fajitas, Vietnamese sandwiches, etc) on flights to and from Houston. I also thought of the idea of including chips and salsa with meal packs as kind of a Tex-Mex touch...
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    The whole point of the lawsuit was that the company was preparing the coffee at a very unsafe temperature and was paying off other victims. Yes, people sometimes are clumsy and do spill coffee on themselves, and that alone doesn't merit a lawsuit. But spilled coffee is not supposed to give third degree burns that require skin grafts. http://www.businessweek.com/archives/1994/b338860.arc.htm
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    SchwinnChopper, the McDonald's coffee spill lawsuit was a justifiable, legitimate lawsuit. The problem was that the coffee was prepared at too high a heat, and the particular spill gave the woman severe burns. This Snopes page notes: http://www.snopes.com/legal/lawsuits.asp A webpage by the Consumer Attorneys of California has information on this particular case: http://www.caoc.com/CA/index.cfm?event=showpage&pg=facts
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    After the 1980s economy collapse building designers have been much more conservative about projects in Houston.
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    I don't think that will be true for very long. Pearland is growing quickly and different ethnic groups are moving in.
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    AFAIK Halliburton owns that one.
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    Municipal annexation doesn't lead to increases in crime. Urban development patterns, which are seeping into the unincorporated areas, do influence crime levels.
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    Didn't this development save the Clinton Drive facility? Or is KBR trying to get rid of it anyway?
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    That was interesting stuff. Thank you! I'm not surprised that people live near where they work. I can see people in Spring, The Woodlands, Kingwood, and northwest Harris working at the new Exxon campus.
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    Are the sources available to the public? I would be interested in seeing the data and to see which suburbs are the employment bases of which districts. In addition the employees who are in the loop can work in the Downtown offices, which will remain open, according to the HBJ article.
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    In a book I read, Saddam knew that the U.S. wasn't going to be happy about Iraq invading, and that Saddam knew that what Glaspie was saying was just standard diplomat stuff. He didn't get any wrong signals from the Glaspie meeting. AFAIK the book was House of Bush, House of Saud, but I forget the page number.
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    Citykid, yes, I could tell that there are people who don't pay. There are people who didn't pay - and those people are caught without tickets and punished. The Houston METRORail is very much a real rail system.
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    I have personally seen METRO police escorting people off the light rail who tried to "pretty much ride for free." I pay for my tickets, so I don't get escorted off.
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    However the headquarters of UPS and Home Depot are not in the Atlanta City limits. UPS is in Sandy Springs, and Home Depot is in Cobb County.
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    Days of severe heat and humidity tend to be only a phenomenon of July and August. Every other time, the weather is decent. Many people prefer having hot summers to really cold winters, which is part of the reason why we settled in Texas.
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    I think the reason why there is a disparity in the height measurements is because there are many ways to measure a building's height. * Do you include only what is above ground, or do you include what is below ground too? * Do you include the antenna in the measurements, or do you not include it? * Do you measure up to the last floor with office, retail, and/or residential space, or do you go beyond that?
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    In regards to cell phones, in many poor countries cell phone development leapfrogged land line development. http://www.usatoday.com/tech/products/2009-03-02-global-cellphone_N.htm The poor in the United States and in other countries benefit from cell phones.
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    Even though there has been political divisiveness, it's not the degree that it was in Weimar Germany. Political parties are not hiring private militias. Discussing the "social, have-have not, rich-poor difference" in itself is not dangerous; what one needs to do is say that "rich people and poor people need to work together to enrich society" not the Hugo Chavez-like antagonism towards the rich. In regards to "But when the differences turn to taking what I have to satisfy those who have not." - The government is not forcibly seizing private property like in the communist takeover of Cuba. The government is simply trying to restructure a few businesses to make them more profitable. Whether that works or doesn't work is a matter of debate, but I don't think the Obama administration created a Weimar-like environment.
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    But there were also a lot of differences.. Hitler scapegoated the Jews as a simple cause of Germany's economic woes, and the anti-Semitic population bought into it But Obama's not scapegoating any particular group. If anything, I do not believe that he insinuated that there was a quick fix or a simple solution to a complex problem. Also the US in 2009 never had to deal with overinflation.
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    AFAIK those signs have been whited out. It was strange seeing "Chinatown" disappear. I have not seen the EaDo signs yet...
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    I don't think including on the Houston city limits is an accurate measure of how popular a group of universities should be, as Houston does not exist in a vacuum. I would consider the entire metropolitan area, which has an overall population of at least 5 million people, as a better subject for determining the possible demand for a group of universities.
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    Congrats to Houstonmacbro! He'll definately get a good job!

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    People on both sides of the political spectrum try to discredit the messengers. Having said that, whether one is paid or not, disrupting a town hall meeting is not at all kosher.
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    http://www.snopes.com/crime/prevent/rape.asp says " Most such offenders derive little pleasure from the act, says Groth, but "they want to degrade their victims, and sex is something bad, dirty, the worst thing you could do to someone. That reflects a lot of our values in society." " So in that sense sex is being used to harm someone. The same article says: "The anger rape is usually unpremeditated and impulsive, but the impulse drives the rapist into excessive force: the victim is punched, choked, and kicked into submission." And from the same article: "Rape is also not always about getting sex quickly. Often it's an act of rage or punishment directed at a vulnerable person for perceived injustices done to the attacker by others. Getting a woman out of her clothes quickly isn't a factor in these rapes; terrorizing her and inflicting bodily harm is."
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    Speaking of that, according to this Snopes article, Nicholas Groth, Director of Forensic Mental Health Associates, said that most rape perpetrators were not sexually deprived; therefore the concept "that men rape because they're unable to get sex any other way" is largely untrue - Also it states that there are three main motivations for rape (anger, power, and sadism), and the article discusses all three: http://www.snopes.com/crime/prevent/rape.asp
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