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DIED. SAM SNEAD, 89, plainspoken golf great known for his straw hat and smooth swing, called the "sweetest" in the game; in Hot Springs, Va. Slammin' Sam, as he was dubbed, learned to play in a cow pasture using sticks as clubs. He won a record 81 PGA Tour events (17 of them after he had turned 40), including three PGA championships, three Masters and a British Open. "Watching Sam Snead practice hitting golf balls," said fellow pro John Schlee, "is like watching a fish practice swimming...
When German farms were hit last year by outbreaks of foot-and-mouth and "mad cow" disease, Renate Künast - Germany's newly appointed Minister of Consumer Protection, Food and Agriculture - had a ready response: increase the country's organic, nature-friendly agriculture from 2% of farms to around 20% in what she called a drive for "class instead of mass." But German consumers discovered last week that buying pricey organic products is no protection against tainted food. Officials reported that large amounts of organic animal feed used by 120 organic farms in Lower Saxony, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, North...
...outperformed a collagen-based substance by a 6-to-1 ratio. Unlike collagen, which lasts only about three months for some patients, Restylane can last six months or longer, doctors say. And because it's a non-animal-based gel created in the lab (bovine collagen is made from cow tissue), it doesn't cause allergic reactions, as collagen does in a few patients. That means no waiting six weeks for allergy-test results before you can try it. "It will be a boon for the patient who says, 'I have a wedding in two weeks,'" says Dr. Rhoda...
...production line of a dingy Chinese factory. The sheer variety of sex toys, both anatomically correct and physiologically implausible, being readied for shipment from Wenzhou Loves Health Products is disturbing. But as company president Wu Wei says, "Everyone has their own taste." Which, hopefully, explains the inflatable cow?a black-spotted Holstein?tucked in the corner. "The cow is ordered by European companies," Wu says, "maybe because Westerners treat animals more equally...
When the Taliban were done dynamiting the two colossal stone Buddhas of Bamiyan in central Afghanistan, they partied hard. They danced, hooted and slaughtered a cow. But Syed Mirza Hussain wasn't celebrating. A Hazara Afghan with Mongolian features and a rusty beard, Hussain had been forced by the Taliban to pack explosives around the statues. The Taliban warned that if he refused, he would be shot. It was a threat that Hussain, a Shi'ite Muslim hated by the Sunni Taliban, took seriously. Earlier, a Taliban fighter had gunned down Hussain's two boys like stray dogs crossing...