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Philipp Meyer, a fellow at the Michener Center for Writers at UT and an EMT, drove to New Orleans and spent 24 hours working with a local police department as an EMT.

Good bread will make you a better judge of wine. Honest!

Austin voters have a chance to confirm that everybody has a right to breathe free

SXSW picks & sleepers

The capricious, political use of recall and referendum perverts and endangers the idea of our constitutional republic

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Here in filmtown, 'Slacker' is on DVD (finally) and 'Louisiana Boys' is on 'SXSW Presents.' Meanwhile, despite the lack of a Hussein connection, the Iraq war is a triumph for the 9 / 11 terrorists and their co-conspirators.

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Or, it takes a lot of patience to play Mrs. Santa Claus.

The institution of marriage has been undone by the changes brought about by modern technology and therefore has nothing to fear from the legalization of gay marriages.

The Bilingual Education Act in 1968 sparked an unprecedented number of bilingual television programs for children, and the Austin-produced children's series Carrascolendas, which premiered in 1970, was among the first.

A Little Late, For Bix

The "outernet industry want advertising on the inside of your eyelids; WorldCom moneyslinger Bernie Ebbers dies by his own gun; and the un-American activities of Stanley Works.

Joeseph Lieberman's corporate contributors, guacamole factories in Mexico, Starbucks bans local newspapers, pesticides in schools.

Not Your Same Old Slusher

Oppel and Levy Spar in Round Two

Instant Sports Patents a Pastime

What can be done to stop the rising rate of HIV in Austin?

The complicated system that is the Austin-Travis Co. EMS is nationally recognized for saving lives. As Austin continues to grow, can the system save itself?

Baroness frontman cuts through the B.S. for Chaos in Tejas

The city is pushing for a 2012 vote to build urban rail. The critics are asking, 'Who needs it?'

Investigators run roughshod over rights in hunt for cybersex offenders

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Texas prosecutors use the 'law of parties' to widen the net for capital punishment

Proponents of electronic voting promise no repeat of Florida in 2000, but critics say it could be even worse

It used to be a commonplace of moralists that man was the only creature in the animal kingdom to slaughter his own kind. But as Chronicle writer Roger Gathman points out, kind is slaughtered by kind routinely among ants, salamanders, and, as any child can tell you, guppies. The golden rule, in nature, is not "do unto others" -- it is "why waste the protein?"