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...Spain's King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella funded Christopher Columbus's journey to the New World. In return, some 500 years later, we repay them with Cokes, Big Macs and Pamela...
...early June, when a young food-poisoning sufferer gave what he considered to be a suspicious beef patty to county health officials near his Pueblo home. By mid-August, at least 14 more cases--including Schlegelmilch's--had cropped up statewide, all traceable to patties prepared at a Columbus, Neb., meat-processing plant owned by Hudson Foods of Rogers, Ark. The contamination probably originated at one of the slaughterhouses that supplies the Nebraska plant, but U.S. Department of Agriculture investigators found extensive problems at the plant, including the practice of tossing one day's leftover raw beef into the next...
...COLUMBUS, Neb.: A "SWAT team" of government investigators is swarming on the Hudson Foods plant that produced 1.2 million pounds of E. coli contaminated frozen burgers, all called back last week in the largest ground beef recall in US history. The Team is poring over records and procedures used at the factory to try and figure out what happened. At least 15 people in Colorado have gotten sick from the burgers, though the patties were distributed nationwide...
Then there's Irabu, who has dozens of tiny magnets taped to his body. Unfortunately for him, that body is now in Columbus, Ohio, where the Yankee rookie will try to regain the magic that disappeared all too quickly after his July 10 debut. Fortunately for the parents of baseball-playing kids, Irabu's demise came before their offspring could strip their refrigerator doors. Fridge magnets wouldn't have worked anyway; they register around 4 gauss (a measure of magnetic strength) and have north and south poles on both sides, while medical magnets range from 800 to 4,000 gauss...
...please, let's fight clean. I'm not going to fold my arms and let you take me out with unfair tactics." It takes courage to do what Tyson did. In our society, it has become clear that the opposite of courage is not cowardice but conformity. IKECHUKWUE IBENEGBU Columbus, Ohio...