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Business . . D1 Crossword . G4 Dear Abby. G5 Directory . . A3 Editorials. .B11 Horoscopes G4 Lottery . . . A2 Outlook . . . B8 Movies. . ZEST Obituaries . B4 INSIDE SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2010 ¬ ¬ ¬* chron.com: Where Houston lives PARTLY SUNNY, HIGH 81, LOW 67 / PAGE B12 TEXANS TAKE ON JETS IN BIG APPLE / PAGE C1 WINTER MOVIES It’s a promising film season, with burlesque dancers, Disney tales and royal speeches — something for everyone. PAGE 8 ZEST SHE’S GOT LEGS Step it up for the fall with tights in a multitude of colors. PAGE J5 FASHION S GO LE Ste w fall the fo A FTER Rice started the day by rising up to throttle East Carolina 62-38 at Rice Stadium, Texas A&M capped it off with a stirring 9-6 win over No. 9 Nebraska to keep its Big 12 South title hopes alive. Meanwhile, Texas Southern clinched its first SWAC division title, and UT stayed in the running for a bowl berth with a win in Austin. COVERAGE ON PAGES C1, C8-11 BIG DAY FOR BIG WINS COLLEGE FOOTBALL GALLERIES: Images from the day’s action. chron.com/sports KAREN WARREN : CHRONICLE WHOOPING IT UP: Ben Bredthauer (95) and his Texas A&M teammates and coaches celebrated a big win over Nebraska on Saturday. Child opened editor’s heart By THE GOODFELLOWS EDITOR HOUSTON CHRONICLE It was a cold, rainy, windy Christmas Eve in 1911. The streets were nearly deserted, except for a few hardy souls who braved the weather on their way home from the day’s work. The bitter winds did not spare an 8-year-old boy, who stood shivering in a corner, wearing tattered clothes and clutching a shoeshine box. It had been a tough year for many Houstonians — especially the boy and his family. His father was ill and had lost his job, forc- ing the boy’s mother to take on Please see GIVING, Page A8 armed with pistols, knives, drugs and fast-flying fists. But of the more than 1,700 cases reported in 2009 alone, only 42 percent resulted in arrests — a rate lower than for murders and other assaults, according to a Houston Chronicle analysis based on FBI reports from police agencies across the eight area counties. Harris County alone claimed 1,265 sexual assault cases last year. And though most sexual assaults involve victims who either know or at least recognize their attacker, police estimate about 25 percent are simply random. One such attack happened to a 19-year-old Houston woman snatched from her southwest Houston apartment complex two days before her high school graduation this year. Before dinner with a friend at her apartment, she says she walked to a neighborhood store to buy ketchup. When she returned — and as she was opening her security gate — a man approached and put a pointed object in her back. She thought it was a gun. He forced her into his car, drove 30 minutes away to an apartment complex and raped her. The man A FREQUENT CRIME WHERE RAPES OCCURRED Each dot represents an attack in the city of Houston in a public place, such as a street or a parking lot, between 2007 and June 2010. Heaviest areas of activity are highlighted with circles that include the number of attacks in that area. 10 10 59 59 290 35 288 45 45 1960 610 6 8 8 8 Westpark Tollway Hardy Toll Rd. In and around downtown U.S. 59 area north of downtown Southwest Houston, between Gessner and Wilcrest YANG WANG, JAY CARR : CHRONICLE Source: Houston Police Department RAPES, BY TIME OF DAY 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 12 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 a.m. p.m. 4 mi. Midnight: 61 16 31 14 A T least four women are sexu- ally assaulted in the greater Houston region every day — attacked in their homes and in their beds, in parking lots and on pub- lic streets, their assailants By YANG WANG HOUSTON CHRONICLE TO VICTIMS, NO PLACE FEELS SAFE Only 42 percent of the area’s more than 1,700 sex assaults resulted in arrests last year Exclusively in your print edition Please see ASSAULTS, Page A8 The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Cen- ter, the world’s pre-eminent cancer research institution, was expected to dominate the state’s new $3 billion cancer research grant competition. But with a full year of funding now complete, the Houston cancer institution that regularly smothers its rivals in federal cancer funding lost out to the University of Texas Southwest- ern Medical Center at Dallas, a relative upstart in the field. “That’s very surprising, No. 1 in world, but 2nd in Texas By TODD ACKERMAN HOUSTON CHRONICLE Cancer grant program unseats M.D. Anderson Exclusively in your print edition Please see CANCER, Page A19 MCALLEN — On a quiet November morning, trooper Johnny Hernandez patrols the dusty back roads along the Rio Grande in Hidalgo County. On the border, hot pursuits are all too common DPS troopers in Hidalgo County kept busy by fleeing smugglers By JOHN TEDESCO SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWS and BRANDI GRISSOM TEXAS TRIBUNE Please see DPS, Page A26 In the back seat, his M4 rifle sits within arm’s reach. In the trunk, he stores a bulletproof vest. The 15-year Department of Public Safety veteran has been in so many high-speed pursuits that he can’t remem- ber the first one, and, to be honest, he says he doesn’t even think of them in terms of which one is scariest. “There’s just so much” go- ing on, he says. “Your thoughts are going 100 miles per hour.” Often, so is his car. Hernandez is one of about 60 DPS troopers on the Tex- as-Mexico border in Hidalgo County, who together over the last five years have logged far more high-speed chases than officers in any other region of the state. for $50 worth of apparel at NINE Maternity! Buy today at chron.com/dailydeal Ribeye Green Steaks Asparagus USDA Select, Bone In, Beef Rib Super Value Pack or Roast $99 ,_ $188 With , u L OW PR I CES Prices With I iu Card I D plus M O R E ! Card • lu Limit 2 with $10 additional Purchase
