McCHESNEY: To the south of Houston, toward Galveston, all along I-45 are miles of deserted shopping malls with their huge empty parking lots illustrating the massive exodus.
The two ports with most traffic in the U.S. are in the South (Louisiana and Houston).
Situated on a bayou and close to Louisiana, Houston mixes the South's hospitality and the West's independent streak and tolerance of differences.
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Today, cities across the world -- including Moscow, Tokyo, London, Houston, even a South Pole science station -- are celebrating the anniversary.
Meanwhile on the PGA Tour, former British Open champion Louis Oosthuizen of South Africa led after three rounds of the Houston Open.
The other eight would be Connecticut, Cincinnati, South Florida, Temple, Central Florida, Houston, Memphis and SMU, the latter four out of Conference USA. Navy is slated to join for just football in 2015.
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Conceptual artists in Houston and animators in Japan and South Korea are now at work on 26 half-hour episodes of Mutineer's Moon, based on a sci-fi pulp novel that Ledford and Greenfield read a decade ago.
The Big East, if it survived to play in 2014, would be comprised of UConn, Cincinnati, South Florida, Temple, Central Florida, Houston, Memphis, SMU and Tulane for all sports with Boise State, San Diego State and East Carolina only competing in football.
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The South Korean company Daelim has three offices in Iran and one in Houston, according to its website.
The conference dropped three of Monday's first four, with Ohio State falling to Florida in the Gator, Nebraska losing badly to South Carolina in the Capital One and Penn State doing likewise to small-conference Houston in the TicketCity.
The conference dropped four of Monday's first five, with Ohio State falling to Florida in the Gator, Nebraska losing badly to South Carolina in the Capital One, Penn State doing likewise to small-conference Houston in the TicketCity and Wisconsin getting beat by Oregon in the Rose Bowl.
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If the Irish had opted to stay in the football-centric league, they would have faced some not-so-familiar opponents in Memphis, Central Florida, Houston, Tulane and SMU, along with returning members Cincinnati, Connecticut, South Florida, Louisville and Rutgers.
Peterborough is one of a select group of cities and towns in south-east England that are happily sprawling outward, like small versions of Fort Worth or Houston.
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Dr. BUCHANAN: Some of those districts in south Texas will deliver two delegates to the winner of the popular vote, where as some districts in cities like Houston, will deliver as many as seven or eight.
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