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Houston is the largest city in the state of Texas and the fourth-largest in the United States. The city covers more than 600 square miles (1,600 km²) and is the county seat of Harris County—the third-most populous county in the country. As of the 2005 U.S. Census estimate, Houston had a population of more than 2 million. The city is at the heart of the Houston–Sugar Land–Baytown metropolitan area, the seventh-largest metropolitan area in the U.S. with a population of 5.3 million in 10 counties.
Houston is a diverse and international city, in part because of its many academic institutions and strong biomedical, energy, manufacturing and aerospace industries. The Port of Houston ranks first in the country in international commerce and is the sixth-largest port in the world. Second only to New York City in Fortune 500 headquarters, Houston is the seat of the Texas Medical Center, which contains the world's largest concentration of research and healthcare institutions and the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, NASA's center for human spaceflight.
Lovett Hall was the first building constructed on the Rice University campus. The building was named after Edgar Odell Lovett, the first president of the university.
The Houston Chronicle is a daily newspaper in Houston, Texas, United States. It is one of the 10 largest newspapers in United States, with a daily circulation nearly 550,000. It is the largest daily paper owned and operated by the Hearst Corporation, a multinational corporate media conglomerate with $4 billion in revenues. The paper employs nearly 2,000 people, including approximately 300 journalists, editors, and photographers. The Chronicle has bureaus in Washington, D.C., Mexico, Colombia, Dallas, San Antonio, Austin, Beaumont and the Rio Grande Valley.
- ...KUHT began broadcasting on May 24, 1953 as the first public television station in the United States.
- ...the Lunar Receiving Laboratory at Johnson Space Center is where the first astronauts returning from the moon were quarantined and where samples of lunar soil and moon rock are stored.
- ...many buildings in downtown are linked by a system of tunnels and skywalks. The tunnel system also includes shops, restaurants, and convenience stores.
- ...in 2001, Tropical Storm Allison dumped up to 39 inches of rain on parts of the city, causing billions of dollars in damage and killing 43 people. To date, the flooding caused by Allison was the worst in the city's history.
- ...University of Houston is ranked second among national universities for Campus Ethnic Diversity in U.S. News & World Report 2007 America's Best Colleges.
James Addison Baker III (born April 28, 1930 in Houston), American politician and diplomat, was Chief of Staff in President Ronald Reagan's first administration, United States Secretary of the Treasury from 1985 to 1988 in the second Reagan administration, and Secretary of State in the administration of President George H. W. Bush. He is also the founder of the James Baker Institute. Baker was educated at The Hill School and Princeton University, where he was elected to receive membership of The Ivy Club, receiving a bachelor's degree in 1952. He then served in the United States Marine Corps for two years as a lieutenant, after which he attended The University of Texas School of Law, where he received his J.D. in 1957.
Dennis Quaid is an American actor born in Houston, Texas. He studied drama at Bellaire High School in Bellaire, Texas and later in college. He dropped out of the University of Houston before graduating and moved to Los Angeles, California, to pursue an acting career. Aside from acting, Quaid is also a musician, and plays with his band the Sharks.
Quaid works with the charity "International Hospital for Children in New Orleans." He makes trips to Central America to help build medical clinics and transport sick children back to the United States for treatment they cannot get locally.
- After finishing with a 1-1 draw following extra time, the Dynamo become the champions of the MLS cup by defeating the New England Revolution 4-3 in penalty kicks.
- One of the world's most famous fossils - the 3.2 million-year-old Lucy skeleton unearthed in Ethiopia in 1974 - will go on display abroad for the first time in the United States. A team from the Houston Museum of Natural Science spent four years negotiating the U.S. tour, which will start in Houston next September.
- Former Enron Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey Skilling was sentenced to 24 years and four months in prison. It is the harshest punishment by far in Enron's scandalous collapse and one that capped a string of tough sentences for top executives in corruption cases.
- According to the Houston Police Department, evacuees from Hurricane Katrina have contributed to an increase in Houston's annual murder rate, which could climb this year to its highest level in more than a decade.
- An unpiloted Soviet cargo spacecraft filled with nearly 2.5 tons of supplies docked automatically on October 26 with the International Space Station. NASA mission controllers at the Johnson Space Center said the cargo carrier - Progress 23 - delivered more than 1,900 pounds of propellant, about 110 pounds of oxygen and 2,784 pounds of dry cargo to the space station.
"Houston people are way cool. They're smart, they know how to have a good time, and they have the hottest chicks on the planet."
- Improve Houston to featured article standards for peer review and eventual nomination as a featured article.
- Participate and collaborate at WikiProject Houston
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