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Houston City Council Member M.J. Khan of District F will be traveling to Doha, Qatar April 6-13 as a representative of the State Department's Speaker and Specialist Program. Council Member Khan will be meeting with local businessman, dignitaries, academics, students, and politicians from the region. During these visits, he will discuss topics ranging from Houston council business to the American political process and living as a Muslim in the United States. He will visit students at some of the local universities and schools including Qatar University and the Texas A&M University Campus in Doha. He will also visit with the Central Municipal Council, Pakistani Youth Society, and Qatar Businessmen’s Association. more ›

What's Governor Perry doing in the Middle East? Lone Star Times has the scoop. His first order of business was to help dedicate a new Texas A&M University campus in Qatar. The campus takes up a sprawling 2,500 acres and is part of a deal between the Qatar Foundation and A&M to provide a full, four-year degree program in mechanical, electrical, chemical and petroleum engineering. We wonder if it'll make Qatar's top party schools list.... more ›

Aggie President Dr. Robert Gates has accepted President Bush's nomination for Secretary of Defense in the wake of former Secretary Rumsfeld's resignation. Rumsfeld announced his resignation on Wednesday in the wake of the large Republican losses in Tuesday's midterm election. Gates is no stranger to the Intelligence and Defense arenas or politics. He began his career in 1966 as a CIA analyst and moved up from there eventually serving as the Director of Central Intelligence... more ›

Texas A&M University has announced that educational content from a variety of classes will be made available via iTunes U to the general public. A&M is the first university in Texas to offer "coursecasts," podcasts of classroom-type content, to folks not affiliated with the university. In order to "Click. Sync. Learn. Gig'em," interested parties must first download and install iTunes before launching TAMU on iTunes U. It's so easy even a caveman an Aggie can... more ›

Councilman Scott Sheley, who also heads up the Baytown Downtown Association and has plans for the landscaping around the old oak, said, "I know we have caught the infestation in time and we’re going to save the tree." more ›

It's time to put an end to those visions of sugarplums that have been dancing in your head all weekend — instead, let's talk about everyone's favorite topic: urban sprawl! The Chronicle reported Monday that some planners believe there may be almost no open space left in Harris County in 30 years. That's based partly on those 2 million people expected to move into the county by 2035 (3.5 million in the metro area) and partly — mostly, perhaps — on Houstonians' love of low-density living, office parks and strip malls: more ›