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...usable Jarrett, is the cagey restless artist who warns us of marketing as a waste of energy. This is fine, if somewhat imprudent, advice, and we would do well to listen up. Unfortunately, there is a worthless side to the man as well, the Jarrett who counsels us to beef up our presence. In fact, this bad Jarrett comes dangerously close to contradicting his better self; after all, his presence, (and we take his grunting as evidence of it) is not all that different from self-promotion...
Hall, who was 21, was one of nine Britons felled in 1996 by a brain disorder linked to exposure to bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), better known as mad-cow disease. The appearance of this degenerative disease--widely suspected to be contracted by eating contaminated beef organs--set off a panic as Europe slammed its doors to British beef, and travelers anxiously cast their minds back to London vacations, trying to recall whether they had ordered the fish or the sausage...
...falling ill last year, some scientists concluded that that was just what happened. If cattle feed was indeed the indirect avenue of the recent infections, it could spell big trouble, since most Britons ate from a contaminated meat supply for at least 10 years. Just how many got bad beef is what the Nature paper tried to determine...
Using a complex epidemiological model, the study concluded that the outlook for the beef-eating population is unclear: at the very least, an additional 75 Europeans will come down with the disease; at the very worst, a chilling 35,000 could fall ill. The researchers caution that too little is known to make confident projections, and in Britain the paper has had little impact. Beef consumption is about where it was a year ago, and although the government last week banned the transplantation of animal organs into humans, saying the risks needed to be studied, no new panic has broken...
...part ways on most other matters. So it comes as something of a surprise that the founders of Ms. and Penthouse magazines have both seen fit to attack The People vs. Larry Flynt, Milos Forman's critically praised film (Oliver Stone is a producer). Steinem and Guccione's beef--part of a growing backlash that may end up denying the film its expected handful of Oscar nominations--is that the movie, in its efforts to plump up Flynt as a First Amendment hero, sanitizes the gamier aspects of his life and work as the creative force behind Hustler magazine. "Larry...