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For Houston's newest millionaires, Wednesday was a day of television appearances and newspaper interviews, back slaps and congratulations. Joyce and Uchenna Agu — a married couple racked by layoffs, unable to get pregnant, immersed in debt and on the verge of breakup — basked in the glow of their Amazing Race win. Many of us have suspected what it might be like to win $1 million, and Joyce confirmed our suspicions. "It felt good," she told the Chronicle. Good enough to quit your jobs? "Whoa, whoa," said Uchenna with a laugh. "It's only a million bucks, buddy." "Only" a million,...

Begins March 1 on CBS, 9 p.m. Eastern/Pacific Here we go again, race fans, for the Seventh Season of The Amazing Race (TAR7). We'll vicariously travel with eleven teams as they fly, drive, climb, crawl, leap, slide, and boogie around the world to compete for one million dollars. They'll never know where they're going next or what they'll have to do once there. The last team to arrive at the "designated pit stop" at the end of each week's episode will be eliminated from the race -- unless it is not. So pull up your favorite armchair and travel...