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Apr 9, 2012
Star-Telegram-'I'm amazed there were no fatalities, given what we saw in the videos,' said Chris Weiss, professor of atmospheric science at Texas Tech University and a tornado researcher.
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Apr 9, 2012
Austin American-Statesman-He thinks we might be able to live better in retirement than most professionals have thought for nearly two decades. The Texas Tech University associate professor, along with two other researchers, Wade D. Pfau and Duncan Williams, has examined William Bengen's well-known 4 percent safe-spending rule and found that some retirees, perhaps many, can spend a lot higher on the hog. Simply raising the spending rate to 6 percent means you can spend 50 percent more.
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Apr 6, 2012
Bloomberg-Many farmers today see themselves as small-business owners, says Cindy Rugeley, a political science professor at Texas Tech University in Lubbock. Republican identification with low taxes and less regulation appeals to them; meanwhile, government payments that have existed for generations “are institutionalized -- they’re part of business,” she says.
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Apr 6, 2012
The Telegraph India-“These were fully terrestrial, like modern ostriches,” said Sankar Chatterjee, a professor and curator of palaeontology at the Museum of Texas Tech University in the US, who is an authority on ancient flying reptiles called pterosaurs and the biomechanics of flight but was not associated with this discovery.
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