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Meat and dairy groups, which have suffered the most from consumers' withdrawal pangs, are making the biggest efforts to regain public trust. In January the National Live Stock and Meat Board launched a $30 million promotion campaign that it hopes will beef up sales that have been less than bullish since 1976. Back then, Americans' per capita consumption was 94 lbs., & in contrast to 80 lbs. last year...
...Possibly the biggest battle of all is shaping up over the definition of who is a Jew. The issue is vital because Jews throughout the world have an automatic right to become Israeli citizens under the Law of Return. While children born of Jewish mothers are automatically Jewish, the ultras argue that converts to Judaism should not be considered Jews unless they were converted according to the halakhah -- effectively excluding those proselytized by Reform or Conservative rabbis...
Traditionally, one of America's biggest headaches in stopping technology leaks has been poor cooperation from its allies, whose ports and corporations have served as smuggler's havens for trading in U.S.-made goods. But during the past few years the U.S. has won greater help from other members of the Paris-based Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Export Controls (COCOM), a group composed of 15 NATO countries plus Japan. The COCOM group, formed just after World War II, jointly agrees on a list of banned technology, but until recently the U.S. has enforced the guidelines much more seriously than most...
Numerous in the area until man destroyed their nesting sites, the turtles will help reestablish the ecological cycle. Officials say the creatures pose no danger to live users of the Ganges, though the project is not without risks. "Poaching will be our biggest problem," says Rajendra Prakash Sharma, chief wildlife warden of Uttar Pradesh. "Turtle meat is considered a delicacy...
...That sign is the biggest joke in the whole world," said Tony Branewski, a five year resident of the nursing home. "I spend all the nice days in the front yard," he added, "And nobody ever stops to talk...