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...Three cases is far from an epidemic, and there has yet to be a reported human case of the illness in the U.S., but steak and hamburger lovers worried about mad cow disease may not take comfort in the USDA's response to the Alabama case. At a press conference Monday, department chief veterinarian John Clifford announced that the USDA will go ahead with previously announced plans to scale down its mad cow testing program. "The incidence of BSE [Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathyin] this country remains extremely low and our interlocking safeguards are working to protect both human and animal health...
...press officer with him. Why couldn't he write his own statement about something supposedly so straightforward? How could relaying facts be beyond his ability? If only Cheney were committed to truth and transparency, and if only he were candid enough to face the public outside the comfort zone of Fox News. The media overreacted to the delay in reporting the shooting, but Cheney's excuses attest to his secretiveness. William A. McCartney Delaware, Ohio, U.S. Safety-conscious hunters learn that it is their responsibility to know where the rest of their party is before taking a shot. Brian Carmines...
...business partner, local Pierre Zuppiroli, guides hikers up mountain Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings characterise a new Singapore hotel Identity Parade An iconic style magazine marks its quarter century Summits of Style Esoteric treatments in a minimalist setting A Starflyer Is Born In-flight comfort with an internet connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder paths, through hidden valleys and down winding country roads, tailoring the pace and distance to suit the clients...
...became more important than ever.On March 17, Byrnes and O’Gradys, Cohans and O’Briens, McCarthys and Fitzgeralds who don’t give a thought to their heritage during the rest of the year are happy to remember the path that brought them comfort and security. At the sound of the bagpipes, we call to mind those thousands of martyrs, on both sides of the Atlantic, who died to make a better life for their people. For one day, we become once more the Irish immigrants who marched to show their pride in their culture...
...number of blogs have appeared on the site which amount to semiprivate diaries of their authors’ lives—a way, in effect, for a group of friends to keep tabs on one another despite hectic Harvard schedules. This seems harmless—insofar as it increases comfort levels with blogging, quite valuable even. Still, when creating new discussion forums we ought to think carefully about in which category (public or private) they belong, lest we clamp down unnecessarily on conversations which should rightly have been open...