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...carried several kilometers over land by the wind and much greater distances over water. Movement of infected animals can spread the disease among separate herds. Contaminated vehicles, equipment, farm products and people can transmit the infection too. The virus can survive for long periods of time in certain meats, bone marrow, viscera and nonpasteurised dairy products. It can also travel from country to country via live animals and meat or nonpasturized dairy products from infected countries...
...novelist, he has chosen a storyteller's genre, and his books do not stand on a soapbox. His tales have got leaner as he keeps refining them down, explaining less, saying more in fewer words. While there is a moment in every book when some character cuts to the bone to pinpoint the evil of power, the preaching is subtle, the moral left to nag at the reader after the story is done...
...invest in procedures that claim to keep us young? We are not talking about products here but about human lives! Those who desperately want a baby and can't have one ought to accept reality. There are millions of children who are in search of a home. LYA R. BONE New York City...
...dark basement. If you hear a noise, you imagine the killer mounting the stairs with a knife in his hands. You finger the tiny glass cylinder of nitro as if it were kryptonite. You rub the middle of your chest, and feel the bumpy scars where the bone was wired back together...
...politics, it is useful to toss a pithy slogan to one's partisans like a bone to a junkyard dog. The beauty of slogans is that they tell us what to think before we decide for ourselves. In dispensing with the bothersome chore of thought, they make it easy for us to memorize sound-bytes from the evening news and feel like political sophisticates. Sen. Tom Daschle (D-SD) and his pals know this trick well. No sooner did President George W. Bush conclude his fine speech last Tuesday than the Democrats tossed us a meaty slogan from their political...