The report is based on data from 2001, the most recent year for which information was available, foundation officials said.

Foundation officials would not say on Friday whether the trip was under way.

He said foundation officials had told him that his bid could not be changed.

While details were still being worked out, the money would be divided into four areas, foundation officials said.

Even though Houston's economy is still down, foundation officials seem to feel that the better climate has come.

Foundation officials were convinced that a new profession of public health was needed.

Foundation officials say they hope to award scholarships to another class of students next year.

But it was also expensive, leaving the group deeply in the red, foundation officials say.

Foundation officials learned that they needed the cooperation of the public schools to succeed.

It is not a museum, say foundation officials, but primarily a study center for students of art and architecture.