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It's two different cultures," the 17-year-old said, comparing Houston with the more boisterous New Orleans.

She complained that the Katrina refugees are getting preferential treatment, even though some of her classmates are even poorer than they are.

Storm victims were taken on shopping sprees to buy clothes and were showered with other gifts after they arrived.

"I feel like they shouldn't have to use that as an excuse all the time, as like, `Oh, I'm an evacuee from New Orleans,' so you get this and you get that," Tatiana said.

Just after the August hurricane, the Harris County Hospital District, the agency that runs the public hospitals and health clinics in Houston and surrounding Harris County, treated 15,000 evacuees in two weeks at the Astrodome, but now sees about 800 extra patients a month, said spokesman Bryan McLeod.

The agency treats 1.2 million patients a year, so apart from the first few weeks, the number of evacuees is "not overwhelming" and is not delaying care for Houston residents, McLeod said.

Still, treating refugees has cost $11.6 million, and the district has been reimbursed only $1.6 million from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and Medicaid, he said.

The district has dipped into reserve funds, he said.

Bus ridership at the Metropolitan Transit Authority was up 12 percent in October through December from the same period a year ago.

Spokeswoman Raequel Roberts attributed the increase...

...ba href=/sleep/a/bwalking when using the prescription ba href=/sleep/a/b aid.The campaign Wednesday is likely the first salvo in what analysts predict will be a fierce advertising war in the market which has seen sales drop in the aftermath of the negative news.

Ambien is expected to have a new competitor by June when Pfizer Inc.

plans to debut a new pill.

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Tag This Article Analysts expect the ads to flood the media just as the commercials for erectile dysfunction treatments like Viagra, when that drug added new competition."You are not going to be able to watch a television show without seeing a commercial for a ba href=/sleep/a/bing pill," said Jason Napodano, an analyst at Zacks Independent Research.Pfizer Inc.

is expected to begin selling a new ba href=/sleep/a/b pill _ known generically as indiplon _ with partner Neurocrine Sciences Inc.

this summer.

It will compete head-on with Ambien and Lunesta, a prescription drug that Sepracor Inc.

began marketing 11 months ago as a way for the ba href=/sleep/a/b-deprived to get a good night's rest.ba href=/sleep/a/bing pill prescriptions grew 55 percent to 45.5 million from 2001 to 2005, according to IMS Health, a pharmaceutical market research firm.Six-month old Ambien CR, the successor drug to the headline-grabbing medicine, had bee...

...ba href=/sleep/a/b is the big challenge for most of the teams, as is a change in venue.Race organiser Andy Reid has moved the race out of Coromandel for the first time in its six-year history, as they're planning to hold a 48-hour event on the peninsular in September.The race will start with a sea kayak from Shark Alley at Mount Maunganui at 7am on Saturday, with both 12 and 24-hour races starting together.Teams won't know the exact route until a debrief tomorrow night, but already know they'll have to try their hand at river running, navigation, rifle shooting, mine exploration and several 'mystery activities'.The theme of the event is 'Escape from Coromandel' and is loosely based around the hit film 'The Fugitive', with teams having to collect points along the way."We're conscious of trying out new areas to keep our athletes fresh," Reid said.

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