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Party Partial
Former Texas Supreme Court Chief Justice Wallace Jefferson wants to transform how judges are selected in Texas. Can he succeed where his predecessors have failed? Wallace Jefferson has a vision. It’s...
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1,000,000,000,000,000 Watts
Or, the Secret of the Big Beam. Photography by Robert Shults If you descend two stories beneath Robert Lee Moore Hall, down into the basement, and stroll through a dim corridor covered in faded safety...
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The Road Back to Film School
Robert Rodriguez has been held up as the prototypical film school dropout, a walking argument for doing things your own way and bypassing a formal education. But that’s not the whole story. Robert...
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Good Fellow
Biomedical engineering prodigy Ashvin Bashyam just hit the trifecta of prestigious science fellowships. Maybe you’ve had this nightmare: Dressed in a suit and tie, you sit at a table across from two...
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Querida Argentina
The Flying Longhorns find a taste of Texas in Buenos Aires and Patagonia. “The eyes of Texas are upon you!” The group belted out, horns proudly raised to the Argentine sky. “All the live long day.” The...
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A Seat at the Table
While growing up in one of America’s “food deserts,” Johnie Jones III, MPAff ’11, watched his neighbors struggle. Now he’s working to give low-income families a healthier life. Kathleen Merrigan...
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Game On
A first-of-its-kind archive at UT’s Briscoe Center is preserving video game history. In the summer of 1979, a teenager and incoming UT freshman named Richard Garriott started tinkering around with an...
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Good Reads: July | August 2014
New books of interest to the Longhorn Universe Charlie Chaplin, Director By Donna Kornhaber We know him best as the mustachioed actor who was the biggest star of the silent film era, but Charlie...
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After fears about peak oil, greenhouse gases, and our dependence on Middle Eastern oil, the world of energy has suddenly flipped. Oil and gas production are up, imports and CO2 emissions are down. The...
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