Results tagged “middleeastern”

Westheimer Road is a long, thriving, paved snake of potholed infrastructure. It guides you into town from the Grand Parkway through Beltway 8 and Loop 610 until it brings you all the way into a cozy, little enclave of town we lovingly refer to as The Montrose. Not really the heart of Houston, because that would probably be the Medical Center, but more like the liver or one of the kidneys of Houston as...

An HPD officer has been transferred to desk duty in a disagreement over who was responsible for letting a man with a non-bomb board a plane at Hobby Airport recently. It happened June 26, when a man "with a Middle Eastern name" and a ticket for a Delta flight to Atlanta told airport screeners he didn't have a laptop in his baggage, though an X-ray machine indicated he did. Screeners searched the man's bags and found a clock with a 9-volt battery taped to it and a copy of the Quran; the screeners also found that the soles of the man's shoes had been hollowed out. No explosives were found on the man, but a TSA screener reported that "the shoes had been tampered with and there were all the components of (a bomb) except the explosive itself."

The internet is full of ads for ways to reclaim one's virginity. From creams to prayers to motivational speakers promoting abstinence, the industry of secondary virginity is booming, but no "cure" has reinduced actual physical virginity. Until now, of course. San Antonio surgeon Dr. Troy Hailparn has built up a practice in reconstructive vaginal surgery, the Houston Press reports this week. According to the article she's treated wives who want their husbands to re-deflower them...