Through four games, the Bears have rushed for 896 yards, 38 fewer than the team’s 12-game total from last season.
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The Woodlands’ district opponents are trying to close the gap. It’s awfully hard when the Lady Highlanders keep adding players like Katie Messing.
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The cold, unflinching NCAA statistics suggest that little has changed. According to the numbers that don’t lie, Rice will again trot one of the nation’s most porous defenses onto the field Saturday evening at Tulsa.
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Much is at stake when the Texans play the Colts in their home opener at Reliant Stadium on Sunday.
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If John McCain is elected and goes on to win a second term, there’s as much as a one-in-four chance America could see its first female president — Sarah Palin. It’s actuarial math.
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When she appeared for a candidate’s forum in front ofunionized Alaskan electrical workers during her run for governor in early October 2006, Sarah Palin arrived woefully unprepared.But just a few weeks later, when Palin jousted with her two main rivals during crucial pre-election debates, she was much more at ease.
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Gov. Sarah Palin cites vigilance against Russian warplanes coming into U.S. airspace over Alaska as one of her foreign policy credentials. But the U.S. military command in charge says that hasn’t happened in her 21 months in office.
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In the state that may again determine the presidency, voters started casting ballots Tuesday as Barack Obama struggles to thwart a John McCain victory in Ohio four years after it tipped the election to President Bush.
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A coalition of Texas scientists warned the State Board of Education Tuesday not to inject politics or religion into new science guidelines for public schools.img src=”http://feeds.chron.com/~r/houstonchronicle/metro/~4/407945069″ height=”1″ width=”1″/

Many of the remaining outages are caused by transformers or lines serving individual customers, CenterPoint said.img src=”http://feeds.chron.com/~r/houstonchronicle/metro/~4/407945067″ height=”1″ width=”1″/