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facility management,” he said.
The CRS Center, endowed in 1991
by the University and the firm CRSS,
Inc., continues to carry out the mis
sion of CRSS Inc., by improving the
“quality of business practice and
management in the planning, design
and construction industry. ”
To receive the graduate certifi
cate, students must complete at least
15 credit hours of facility manage
ment course work, three hours of
Course work from outside the stu
dent’s major field of study and com
plete a capstone course, a prepara
tory course taken after all other
courses in the major field of study
have been completed.
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“The gallery is a beautiful gem
that is not being taken advantage
Of year round because townspeo
ple and visitors can’t get there,”
Perry said.
This year. Perry is entering four
pieces, including a painting of “a
wild and splashy blue and gold
p’arrot” and a detailed pastel of
mixed garden lilies.
Sherry Killingsworth, president
of the Brazos Valley Art League,
said she entered one of her works
for the first time this year.
. f- “I [painted] a pastel water gar
den for the show,” she said. “[The
Benz Gallery] gets a lot of expo
sure, and it’s always nice to have
people see your stuff.”
, Killingsworth said one artist en
tered some mixed paintings and
drawings to this year’s exhibit in
which she used pen and ink, wa-
tercolor and glitter-paint.
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Cindy Brooks, a marketer for the People Book, points people to
wards the People Book table in the MSC. Brooks said the book
has been a staple in College Station for 21 years.
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BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) —
Jurors deliberated five hours
Tuesday but reached no verdict in
the murder-for-hire trial of two
former police officers accused of
killing a woman who had
grabbed headlines with her story
of a baby stolen from her womb.
Roberto Briseno and Randall
Ledbetter, former Brownsville po
lice officers, were accused of cap
ital murder in the 1994 slaying of
Laura Lugo. The pair face up to
life in prison if convicted.
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tody of the boy in 1994.
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the study has shown that the
United States’ amount of scour is
relatively low.
-» Mike L. Downey, science writer
for Texas Engineering Experiment
Station, said the study is benefi
cial even though the gains are not
immediate.
Downey said that most people
think of bridges as permanent
structures and do not realize
bridges can collapse.
HOUSTON (AP) — A series of
powerful thunderstorms packing
winds of up to 60 mph slammed
Houston late Tuesday afternoon,
knocking down power lines, shat
tering windows and destroying a
three-story motel that was under
construction.
The wooden frame of the
Hawthorne Suites motel pancaked
when heavy winds struck it around
4:30 p.m., possibly trapping a con
struction worker, Houston Fire De
partment spokesperson Rick Flana
gan said.
Emergency workers searched
the motel wreckage with a thermal
imaging camera, which can detect
body heat, but found nothing,
Flanagan said. Rescue dogs
searched the debris early Tuesday
night, and heavy equipment was
being brought in to pick through
the rubble, he said.
The worker was trapped when
he and three others ran down from
the roof as the winds picked up and
then left through the interior of the
building, Flanagan said.
Three of the roofers apparently
ran out of the front of the building
before it collapsed, but the other
apparently did not make it, Flana
gan said.
The name of the missing roofer
was unavailable, he said.
The storms struck quickly,
dumping 2-4 inches of rain in
some areas and causing street
flooding.
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