Word: bbc
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...evidence. Tuesday, the Commission said its decision had not been final, and it promised a hard answer within a day. All but two European Union countries have already banned British meat. Yet Stephen Dorrell, Britain's health secretary, insisted Tuesday that British beef remains "a safe product." He told BBC radio: "I agree with The Sun newspaper this morning which says it isn't the cows that are mad, it's the people that are going mad. Livelihoods are being threatened by gossip." On Monday, the British Parliament decided that no new action need be taken to curb the spread...
...rest of the news look meager and soiled: whirling around the dance floor in Australia with Diana's emerald necklace subbing as a headband, kicking up their heels at a White House ball and back home, kissing at a polo match. In her interview last November on the BBC's Panorama program, Diana spoke repeatedly about their effectiveness as a team. Was it intended as rebuke to her husband? Probably, but it was true...
Certainly I listened to Die Deutsche Welle, the German Waves, night after night struggling to understand not just the news, but poetry and folksong. But I found the BBC and Radio Moscow, in time Radio Netherlands and the static-cracked voices of new African nations, and by ninth grade I knew that other countries not only had a different slant on the news, they had different news altogether, some aimed to listeners in their former colonies and to emigrants in South America or East Africa, but most aimed at anyone who cared to caress the fine-tuning dial...
Following the speech, Wu showed two brief documentaries. One documentary, which he produced with "60 Minutes," was about the labor camps. The other, produced with the BBC, showed prisoners being executed so their organs could be sold to foreigners for transplant...
...Japanese walking tour stopped at Radcliffe Quadrangle on Tuesday and 86 visitors had their pictures taken with the Easter Island god. The Smithsonian flew in a curator, who videotaped and photographed the work for archival purposes. The BBC started work on a documentary. There was talk of a declaration of the "Eighth Wonder of the World...