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- Wages paid in beer to build 'man cave'
During the week Ryan Samuels, 30, is a married man working in the energy market in Richardson, Texas. But on the weekends he lures men away from their homes, wives and children with beer, camaraderie, power tools and "The Ponderosa."
- Ants swarm over Houston area, fouling electronics
In what sounds like a really low-budget horror film, voracious swarming ants that apparently arrived in Texas aboard a cargo ship are invading homes and yards across the Houston area, shorting out electrical boxes and messing up computers. The hairy,
- Texas Court Overturns Vioxx Ruling
The case involves a jury award to the widow of a 71-year-old man who had a history of heart disease and died of a heart attack after taking Vioxx briefly. 
- Another potential threat to McCain, from Libertarian
Bob Barr, seeking the Libertarian Party's presidential nomination, keeps close to the script that has had Ron Paul, a Texas congressman, continuing to draw votes in Republican presidential primaries. If Barr wins the nomination, he could siphon critical Republican votes away from McCain in battleground states in November.
- Ants swarm over Houston area, fouling electronics
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 AP - In what sounds like a really low-budget horror film, voracious swarming ants that apparently arrived in Texas aboard a cargo ship are invading homes and yards across the Houston area, shorting out electrical boxes and messing up computers.
- Weatherford makes amends in Sudan
(Fortune) -- All too seldom is a Fortune story about corporate misbehavior transformed into feel-good news. But for the Texas oil-services company Weatherford International, that the company was operating in embargoed Sudan looked to be just such an
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Introduction
Texas became the United States twenty-eigth state on December 29, 1845. The capital is Austin. The state's largest city is Houston, home to NASA control. The name Texas comes from the word "tejas", meaning "friends and allies". Notable in Texas state history is that from 1836 to 1845 Texas was an independent nation. Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and Lyndon B. Johnson were both born in the Lone Star State. Today Texas claims 7.4% of the total area of the United States with 261,914 square miles, making it the second largest state. Still, Texas is less than half the size of the largest state, Alaska.
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AP - A Texas appeals court on Wednesday overturned a multimillion-dollar verdict against Merck & Co. in a case involving its withdrawn painkiller Vioxx.
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