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! Texas Corporation US Notwithstanding the concentration of elite medical centers in the state the Commonwealth Fund ranks the Texas healthcare system the third worst in the nation. Texas ranks close to last in access to healthcare quality of care avoidable hospital spending and equity among various groups. Causes of the state's poor rankings include politics a high poverty rate and the highest rate of illegal immigration in the nation in May 2006 Texas initiated the program "code red" in response to the report the state had 25.1 percent of the population without health insurance the largest proportion in the nation. Research shows that adolescents who see alcohol use in advertisements television shows and movies are more likely to start drinking alcohol at a younger age Drinking at a young age is correlated with long-term alcohol abuse, Autumn Harris County ESD #15 Fire Tomball FD 1% .05, Languages 3 Refurbishment plans Lynchburg; Diplomacy Tomball Harris County ESD #75 Dual Baytown FD 1% .0875, On July 30 1942 the Robert E Lee captained by William C Heath was torpedoed by the German submarine U-166 She was sailing southeast of the entrance to the Mississippi River when the explosion destroyed the #3 hold vented through the B and C decks and damaged the engines the radio compartment and the steering gear After the attack she was under escort by the USS PC-566 captained by LCDR Herbert G Claudius en route to New Orleans the USS PC-566 began dropping depth charges on a sonar contact sinking the U-166 the badly damaged Robert E Lee first listed to port then to starboard and finally sank within about 15 minutes of the attack One officer nine crewmen and 15 passengers were lost Ironically the passengers aboard the Robert E Lee were primarily survivors of previous torpedo attacks by German U-boats the wreck's precise location was discovered during the C & C Marine survey that located the U-166. 3.4 Poverty Main article: Economy of Houston 1800s As of the colonial period Texas was largely divided between 6 culture groups the Caddoan peoples occupied the area surrounding the entire length of the Red River Upon contact with Europeans they formed four collective confederacies known as the Natchitoches the Hasinai the Wichita & the Kadohadocho (Caddo) All four of them held some land in what is now Texas. Along the Gulf Coast region were the Atakapa tribes with at least one Coahuiltecan tribe (a culture group primarily from Northeast Mexico) a little further west on the Rio Grande Largely between the Rio Grande & Peco River were the Puebloan peoples part of an extensive civilization of tribes that lived in what are now the states of Texas New Mexico Colorado & Utah While the northern-most groups faced a cultural collapse due to a drought many of the southern tribes survive to the present North of the Pueblos were the Apachean tribes Although commonly referred to as one single nation they are actually a culture group. North of the Apacheans in the Northern Panhandle region were the Comanches. In August 1942 the Allies succeeded in repelling a second attack against El Alamein and at a high cost managed to deliver desperately needed supplies to the besieged Malta a few months later the Allies commenced an attack of their own in Egypt dislodging the Axis forces and beginning a drive west across Libya. This attack was followed up shortly after by Anglo-American landings in French North Africa which resulted in the region joining the Allies. Hitler responded to the French colony's defection by ordering the occupation of Vichy France; although Vichy forces did not resist this violation of the armistice they managed to scuttle their fleet to prevent its capture by German forces the Axis forces in Africa withdrew into Tunisia which was conquered by the Allies in May 1943.

5.2 Water pollution Energy I-69 (TX).svgUS 59.svg Interstate 69/U.S Highway 59 a.k.a - Eastex Freeway going NE or Southwest Freeway going SW, For years Mexican authorities used the reconquering of Texas as an excuse for implementing new taxes and making the army the budgetary priority of the impoverished nation. Only sporadic skirmishes resulted. Larger expeditions were postponed as military funding was consistently diverted to other rebellions out of fear that those regions would ally with Texas and further fragment the country.[Note 17] the northern Mexican states the focus of the Matamoros Expedition briefly launched an independent Republic of the Rio Grande in 1839 the same year the Mexican Congress considered a law to declare it treasonous to speak positively of Texas in June 1843 leaders of the two nations declared an armistice. ; ; . See also: Deregulation of the Texas electricity market, The coffee companies of Houston formed the Greater Houston Coffee Association in fall 2000 the industry then tried to make Houston a major coffee shipping port Coffee sold through futures contracts may only be shipped to a New York Board of Trade-certified port and Texas's ad valorem tax on warehouse inventories made it impossible for Houston to get such a certification the tax was written into the Constitution of Texas so the Greater Houston Coffee Association asked State Representative Joe E Moreno and State Senator Mario Gallegos to present a constitutional amendment bill to exempt cocoa and coffee stored in Harris County warehouses from the tax Voters approved the amendment in 2001 Since then Houston's role as a coffee port increased After Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans much of the traffic switched to Houston, On June 1 1836 Santa Anna boarded a ship to travel back to Mexico For the next two days crowds of Texian soldiers many of whom had arrived that week from the United States gathered to demand his execution Lamar by now promoted to Secretary of War gave a speech insisting that "Mobs must not intimidate the government We want no French Revolution in Texas!" but on June 4 soldiers seized Santa Anna and put him under military arrest. According to Lack "the shock of having its foreign policy overturned by popular rebellion had weakened the interim government irrevocably" a group of soldiers staged an unsuccessful coup in mid-July in response Burnet called for elections to ratify the constitution and elect a Congress the sixth set of leaders for Texas in a twelve-month period. Voters overwhelmingly chose Houston the first president ratified the constitution drawn up by the Convention of 1836 and approved a resolution to request annexation to the United States. Houston issued an executive order sending Santa Anna to Washington D.C and from there he was soon sent home.