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...Europe's latest bout with foot-and-mouth has served as a kind of parable for the unintended consequences, and the perverse logic, of modern agriculture. Previous outbreaks of the disease, while more deadly, were also more easily contained on local farms. But the liberalization of the European food market means that contaminated products can pass uninspected across E.U. borders. "There's much more movement than there used to be," says David Wilkins, executive director of Brussels' Eurogroup for Animal Welfare. Some critics say E.U. regulations aimed at increasing food safety have also heightened the danger of large-scale epidemics...
...should not be surprising that these former Cold Warriors are suffering from a bout of Cold War nostalgia; after all, their entire careers were staked upon their being able to think and act under Cold War conditions. The New World Order of globalization and international cooperation is an alien world to them; they would have been much more comfortable in Ronald Reagan's Cabinet than in George W.'s. However, whether they realize it or not, their nostalgia risks undoing 11 years of reconciliation with our former rivals...
...title bout, Rechul felled Brown's Bronson Lingamfelter in just 1:41. It was Rechul's fifth straight defeat of Lingamfelter in the pair's rather one-sided rivalry...
...Losers NAOMI CAMPBELL No super models allowed. Staff at London boutique Voyage ban the notoriously petulant poser ROGER CLINTON How 'bout another pardon, bro? Former U.S. First Brother charged with drunk driving BULENT ECEVIT Turkish PM rows with Prez, spat triggers collapse of lira. Time to purchase that villa in Smyrna? Verbatim...
...cool ending that made the whole thing more interesting, the ending made what had proceeded it even more boring and foolish. I felt like I had watched one of those pay-per view Mike Tyson fights where there are like a million clowns on the undercard and the main bout ends up with somebody biting somebody else's nose and so the whole thing is a waste. There were a few nice moments - Shelby Lynne's win for Best New Artist was well-deserved, and Eminem's duet with Elton John was sharp and well-executed...