Texas, deep in the heart
Editor's note: This is a guest column by Larry Terry, a longtime Houston-area journalist. Mark Garay is off this week.
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Editor's note: This is a guest column by Larry Terry, a longtime Houston-area journalist. Mark Garay is off this week.
Robert Sakowitz set out to be a retail Renaissance man. Like his hero Leonardo da Vinci, he was going to do everything. And he did—including something he never imagined: fail.
Jim hit Houston like a tornado, and in terms of my life as a working artist, the effect was dramatic and immediate.
Going broke is for poor people. Here’s a whole chapter of Texans who have found ways to clear the books without losing their ranches, Rolls, or Rolexes.
Artificial hearts were invented at a time when progress in science couldn't come fast enough. In 1969, when they first went into human use, DDT hadn't been banned, vaccines were considered the medical highlight of the century, and the Green Revolution promoted genetic modification as the way to feed the world's poor in the future.