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They waited through the night, with the store due to open at 6 a.m. on Wednesday morning, as a DJ and the Wakeland High School drum line kept them entertained. H-E-B, a supermarket chain that originally takes its name from founder Howard E. Butt, is widely known as “Here Everything’s Better,” and it has something of a cult status in Texas, especially in the south. Despite the fact that H-E-B has had 420 stores between South, Central and West Texas and Mexico until now, there was no supermarket in the Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) Metroplex in the North....

Percocet is an opioid, which means that it is a morphine-based medication and should be taken with caution. It is known by several brand names, including Primlev, Roxicet, Endocet, and Xartemis XR. Uses Percocet is used for the treatment of moderate to severe pain. It typically is used for a short time during the early days of postsurgical recovery. Patients may have difficulty coughing or performing limited amounts of exercise like taking short walks due to pain, which increases the risk of pneumonia (an infection of the lungs) and blood clots after surgery....

This irony also manifests in many statements in support of racial justice from consumer brands, professional service firms, and even educational institutions. All too often, these announcements, like the new national holiday, remain performative lip service that fails to materialize into substantive progress. I know I’ve already lost a few readers who may think this piece is bashing those brave enough to show commitment to making a difference. In fact, it’s quite the opposite....

The Bush administration’s proposed 2008 budget guts the coffers of the U.S. Agency for International Development (which is devoted to areas like health care, education and child welfare) by 31 percent and its operations by 15 percent; meanwhile, it kicks 27 percent more money into the State Department’s economic-support fund. That means America will use more dollars to make friends and to compete in the developing world with Beijing....

I have a theory: June 30. Perot is supposed to testify on that date before a Senate select committee investigating-for about the umpteenth time-the issue that has obsessed him for the past 23 years: the fate of American prisoners of war in Southeast Asia. His record has been a tangled commingling of idealism, self-indulgence and weirdness. It may be one of the few clear windows available into the soul of the man....

• In your business. Even if you just have a weekend eBay enterprise, you can hire your child and create big tax savings. Any age is fine as long as they do the work the job requires. William Massey of Thomson Tax & Accounting gives an example: A parent in the 35 percent bracket pays his daughter $5,350 a year to receive orders and pack boxes. As long as she files her own return and claims her own standard deduction, she’ll owe no taxes....

Purpose of Test Positron emission tomography has a broad range of diagnostic applications but is typically ordered if your healthcare provider either suspects cancer or that a cancer may have spread. It is routinely used to assess the status of your heart prior to bypass surgery, especially if other imaging tests are inconclusive. It is also commonly ordered if early Alzheimer’s disease is suspected or to evaluate the brain prior to surgery to treat refractory seizures....

Making an appearance at the Orange’s 92-69 Feb. 5 victory over the University of Louisville, Davidson was wearing a Syracuse-themed bomber hat when his presence was announced to a lively Carrier Dome crowd. The Saturday Night Live star was booed mercilessly. Davidson and the residents of Syracuse, NY have an adverse relationship. In 2019, after shooting coming-of-age film Big Time Adolescence in Syracuse, Davidson issued a series of negative comments about the city and the time he spent there....

Rose met with Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred on Thursday at the league’s New York offices, making one more plea for reinstatement to the game. MORE: September swoons don’t mean much in October | When Jonathan Papelbon was the worst MLB released a statement Friday confirming the meeting and said Manfred would make a decision on the request by the end of the calendar year but would have no further comment....

John Dowd, the lead investigator in the 1989 probe that concluded Rose bet on baseball, claims he was told by former Rose associate Michael Bertolini — whose notebook showed Rose bet on baseball as a player — that Rose committed statutory rape of young girls during his playing and/or managerial career, NJ.com reports. MORE: Pete Rose thinks reinstatement still possible In an interview with West Chester, Pa., radio station WCHE, which had not been revealed until Thursday, Dowd said, “Bertolini told us that not only did he run bets, but he ran young girls for him down in spring training....

I guess I’ve been working under restrictions of one kind or another in quite a few places in my life. My most recent assignment for 10 months at a place we call Dixie [Israel] was under restrictions concerning military actions, but no restrictions governing political comment. I guess the best comparison is North Vietnam where I visited in 1972 and we had “minders.” They made a point of showing us what they wanted publicized....

BY ZULHILMI ZAINAL Follow on Twitter Former Asian Football Confederation secretary-general Peter Velappan wants four Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries to bid for the right to co-host the 2034 World Cup, with him at the helm. In a press conference held in Kuala Lumpur on Thursday, the 82-year old former football administrator, who just returned from meetings with FIFA officials at the World Cup in Russia, proposed that the co-hosting duties be shared between either Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam and his native Malaysia....

Sure, pets provide companionship and unconditional love. But research has shown that they can also help reduce stress and blood pressure in owners, increase longevity in those who’ve had heart attacks, and even relax and improve the appetites of Alzheimer’s patients. “Any disease condition that has a stress-related component to it, we believe pets could ameliorate stress and moderate the situation,” says biologist Erika Friedmann, a professor at the University of Maryland School of Nursing....

Manning played collegiately at Tennessee and still has ties to the Volunteer State. And on the Senate floor Tuesday, Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tennessee) said Manning will help lead the charge to aid families of the victims with their financial needs. MORE: Peyton Manning’s career, captured on camera | NFL players giving back “My friend and a great Tennessean, or at least we claim him as that — he lives in Chattanooga for part of the year — Peyton Manning has lent his name to this effort, and my sense is you’re going to see a generous outpouring to ensure that at a base level some of the needs of these families, if not all financially, will be dealt with in an appropriate way,” Corker said, via The Denver Post....

The sun was out at Baltusrol Golf Course, but Thomas was the brightest thing on the course. MORE: Leaderboard | PGA Championship gets no respect Though golfers aren’t new to the flower-print pants game — see: Billy Horschel and John Daly — Thomas got his outfit to match. He also played well, finishing his first round at 1-under par. Thomas is active on social media. His budding friendship with Jordan Spieth and Rickie Fowler led to entertaining and controversial posts....

Ahead of this week’s PGA Championship at Bethpage Black, where Spieth is looking to complete a career Grand Slam, the American’s poor form has been the subject of significant scrutiny. The three-time major winner has dropped from third in the world rankings at this time last year to No. 39 and has not managed a top-20 finish in 2019. His last tournament victory came at the British Open in July 2017....

The top 70 plus ties advance to the weekend in Farmingdale, New York. Woods was tied for 48th at 2 over, a shot better than the projected cut line. He managed to save par on No. 1 but bogeyed the second hole to drop to 3 over. At point early in Friday’s round, the cut line had bounced to 3 over before wobbling back to plus 2 and then gone back to 3 over....

The tour is scheduled to pitch up in the United Arab Emirates this month, with the HSBC Championship earmarked for January 16 to January 19 in Abu Dhabi and the Omega Desert Classic to be staged in Dubai a week later. Following the events in the UAE, the European Tour is then scheduled to move to Saudi Arabia for the Saudi International tournament, which runs from January 30 to February 2....

You have to see it to believe it, this chucker from a player at the highest level of the PGA Tour. Folks, Stenson entered the WCG-Cadillac Championship as the No. 3 player in the world. One would expect to see this from a weekend hack at Bushwood Country Club, from a distracted Judge Smails, not from a guy bidding for global domination. For the record: Stenson uncorked this stinker on the second hole at Doral from 138 yards off the green....

Spieth, 20, tied for second with Sweden's Jonas Blixt at Augusta National as Bubba Watson won his second Masters green jacket. MORE: Leaderboard; K.J. Choi makes second-round charge | Kuchar starts fast Ahead of the RBC Heritage at Hilton Head, S.C., Spieth revealed his burning desire to challenge once again in major championships. "It definitely left me stinging and it definitely left me hungry and ready to go and play golf again and I'm ready to eventually get back there again," Spieth said when asked about events at Augusta....