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. . . In December southward-moving cold fronts can bring cold rain low wind chills and rarely frozen precipitation Early January is the coldest time of the year with temperatures moderating slightly by February Winter is also the driest part of the year for Houston, According to a survey of Division I-A coaches the rivalry between the University of Oklahoma and the University of Texas at Austin the Red River Shootout ranks the third best in the nation the TCU Horned Frogs and SMU Mustangs also share a rivalry and compete annually in the Battle for the Iron Skillet a fierce rivalry the Lone Star Showdown also exists between the state's two largest universities Texas A&M University and the University of Texas at Austin the athletics portion of the Lone Star Showdown rivalry has been put on hold after the Texas A&M Aggies joined the Southeastern Conference. .

. With large universities systems coupled with initiatives like the Texas Enterprise Fund and the Texas Emerging Technology Fund a wide array of different high tech industries have developed in Texas the Austin area is nicknamed the "Silicon Hills" and the north Dallas area the "Silicon Prairie" Texas has the headquarters of many high technology companies such as Dell Inc Texas Instruments Perot Systems Rackspace and AT&T. . Japanese prisoner-of-war camps many of which were used as labour camps also had high death rates the International Military Tribunal for the Far East found the death rate of Western prisoners was 27.1 per cent (for American POWs 37 per cent) seven times that of POWs under the Germans and Italians. While 37,583 prisoners from the UK 28,500 from the Netherlands and 14,473 from the United States were released after the surrender of Japan the number of Chinese released was only 56.