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Radack, though, notes that despite the media attention, Houston residents don't seem riled up. Unlike other issues that brought in mail by the bagful 鈥?such as the now-abandoned policy of selling shelter dogs for medical research 鈥?he has received only two letters regarding the Astrodome.