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The documented increase in collisions appears to persist and even increase over time, and that rate has stayed steady through weekdays, weeknights, weekend days and weekend nights, according to John Barrios, assistant professor at Chicago Booth, and Yale V. Hochberg and Hanyi Yi, both of Rice University, in the working paper, The Cost of Convenience: Ridehailing and Traffic Fatalities.

A rare piece of good news for health care emerged from this year’s 86th Texas legislative session: A new law, SB 1264, protects certain insured patients from surprise medical bills. Its very existence shows that collaboration and compromise is not dead in Texas: With the right leadership, good bipartisan work can get done.

Andaya, a University of Houston hospitality management program alum and Rice University MBA grad, recently returned to Houston from Los Angeles where he was an operating partner for two restaurant concepts. He’s working with his childhood friend, Raymond Chan — owner of the local bar, East End Hardware — to bring Hando to the Heights. 

Gerri Huck will replace Lisa Frost, of Roxbury, who resigned from the Montpelier-Roxbury Public Schools District board because she is moving to Plymouth, New Hampshire. She received a bachelor’s degree in literature and philosophy from the University of St. Thomas in Texas in 1993 and a Field of Study Project Management Certificate from the Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management at Rice University in Houston in 2001.

Saying "no" teaches valuable lessons. "It goes beyond 'you can't have anything you want.' It helpd to develop crativity and resilience, because always saying 'yes' makes children grow up unable to cope with setbacks," says American teacher Scott Sonenshein, a professor of Psychology at Rice University in Texas (USA). (Translated from Portuguese)

Another challenge for St. Luke’s is ownership. It’s the third major management shuffle for Baylor St. Luke’s in under 10 years. “Lots of changes in leadership over that point in time — distractions,” said Ken Janda, a health care economics professor at Rice University and a consultant with Wild Blue Health Solutions.

“Very, very few brands have broad appeal,” said Utpal Dholakia, marketing professor at Rice University. “NASA fits into the mold where it not only has broad appeal, but there is almost nothing to dislike about it.”

Even as large and muscular as many of the other WWE stars are, Strowman stands out among them. His massive frame (billed at 6'8", 385 lbs) combined with a cougar's quickness had many folks in awe. Crystal, a faculty coordinator at Rice University, was among those unnerved by Strowman. She had seen a bit of WWE here and there and was familiar with The Miz via reality TV, but this behemoth was like nothing she had experienced. "He's an impressively terrifying individual," she said.

“I cannot imagine how these (ice cream licking) videos would not affect buying decisions and consumer confidence during the middle of ice cream season,” said Utpal Dholakia, a Rice University business and marketing professor. “I know the chances of a tampered carton are very small — virtually nonexistent — but because it’s top of mind, you can’t help but be risk averse. This is a huge problem for the Blue Bell brand.”

‘Ride sharing ...comes with congestion costs and congestion cost is associated with accident cost.’—Yael Hochberg, Rice University professor. Yael Hochberg, a professor at Rice University who was one of the paper’s researchers, told MarketWatch the findings were “not some sort of condemnation of ride-sharing.”