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No one knew when it might end. By Saturday, more than 50 incidents of foot-and-mouth in the U.K. had turned up-from Dover on the southeastern tip to Lockerbie in Scotland-and fresh cases were expected at the rate of six to 10 a day. The confirmation of...
...anxieties about the plague spread throughout Europe, so did the recriminations. The Spanish daily El Mundo blasted Britain for its "excess confidence" that the country could prevent outbreaks of foot-and-mouth without vaccinating livestock, something most E.U. governments did until a decade ago. Continental farmers grumbled that Britain, where the bse scare began, was once again exporting a food crisis to the rest of Europe. English farmers pinned blame for the epidemic on meat products imported from non-E.U. countries. Environmentalists denounced the drive toward intensified, low-cost farming as the culprit. And in Brussels, bureaucrats were warning...
Meanwhile, Russia has graciously offered to share its missile defense technology with the rest of Europe (NATO allies included), opening the possibility of creating a missile shield for the entire continent. Such an agreement would essentially destroy NATO, and divide the world along Cold War-type lines. But this time...
Matthews is perhaps the only white pop star--sorry, Eminem--who could legitimately claim to be African American. Yeah, sure, it's only technically true, thanks to his birthplace. But echoes of Africa do resound in his work. "I'm inspired by resilience in the face of adversity," he says...
Death Stalks a Continent