Texas Standard for Aug. 21, 2015
The future of women in combat: What role will they play? Plus: As Texas’ oil boom goes bust, the repo man looms large. Houston gets its first electronic flash flood gates. And what’s it like moving 600 hospital patients across a sky bridge over a busy street in Dallas? All that and more on today’s Standard.
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