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What Mainstream Publishers Don't Want You to Know About Door-to-Door Magazine Sales That kid at your door with a magazine order form will tell you a story -- part sad, part hopeful. The truth will be infinitely worse than you can imagine.
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A Montrose Man's Panic Room Wasn't Enough Whitt Bruney was so scared of his neighbor, he moved out. Eight years later that didn't do much good...
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Houston Has a Bad Reputation with Touring Indie Bands They'd just as soon give us a miss.
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What Happens When Chronically Ill Kids Grow Up Physically disabled young adults who weren't supposed to live this long find themselves hemmed in by an unprepared heath care system
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A Dirty Picture
What mainstream publishers don't want you to know about door-to-door magazine sales.
By Craig Malisow
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Best Local Girl Made Good
Sherron Watkins
Published on September 26, 2002
Although she's technically not a whistle-blower, Enron executive Sherron Watkins's memo to Ken Lay warning him of the coming catastrophe last fall made her the Cassandra of the biggest business scandal ever to hit the city. Watkins managed to stay on the Enron payroll while becoming a national hero through appearances before congressional interrogators. She's now collaborating with Houston writer Mimi Swartz on an upcoming tell-all book about life inside the Crooked E.
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