Stephen Klineberg, who led the Rice study, argues that in some 30 years all of America will look like Houston today.

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On April 21st Stephen Klineberg, a sociologist at Rice University, brought out the 2010 edition of his Houston Area Survey, an annual measure of the civic temperature.

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Houston is the fastest-growing and most ethnically diverse metropolitan area in the country, says Stephen Klineberg, co-director of Rice University's Kinder Institute for Urban Research.

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To hear Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley tell it, there has been no change in U.S. policy toward Iran.

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