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...East and Asia imposed limits on imports of meat and dairy products from the European Union. E.U. health commissioner David Byrne called the moves excessive and threatened to take the case to the World Trade Organization. In Britain, officials planned "preemptive" killing of up to 1 million animals to contain the infection, which grew to more than 260 confirmed cases since the first outbreak in February...
Whether or not to accept the advertisement is a valid decision for newspapers to make, and neither conclusion legitimates the response of stealing newspapers. Indeed, the copies of the Herald that were stolen did not even contain the offending ad, but only articles defending it. The theft was pure retribution, and the tenor of the "demands" levied by the protesters--free advertising space, the donation of the purchase price to campus minority organizations--seem to indicate a desire for payback rather than a concern for standards. The arguments to justify the theft--that it was not theft because the Herald...
...months. New Palestinian textbooks for grade school children released last September, which were supposed to reverse the cycle of hate, are designed to ensure its continuance. Unlike Israel's revised history curriculum that now examines portions of the recent past through Palestinian eyes, the books issued by the PA contain the same invectives against Israel and the Jewish People. Maps of the Middle East make no mention of Israel. The area is labeled only as Palestine...
...projections are chilling. O.C. Lin, director of the Hong Kong AIDS Foundation, says if China acts swiftly to contain the epidemic it can slow the disease's spread to 1.5 million HIV-infected people by 2010. "That's the best scenario," says Lin. And even that puts an impossible burden on China's underfunded health services. "In the worst case," Lin continues, "China could have 15 million HIV cases...
...case of the highly contagious virus in the northeastern corner of the country, sending European financial markets and farmers into barely controlled hysteria. Roadblocks and embargoes were established, travelers were asked to disinfect their shoes, and thousands more animals were slaughtered and burned as French farmers scrambled to contain the devastating disease. Across the Atlantic, the United States' Agriculture Department banned imports of all livestock, fresh meat and unpasteurized dairy products from all 15 countries in the European Union. While some E.U. countries expressed surprise at what they term "drastic" action, the Agriculture Department sees the ban as a necessary...