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...discovery this week of a third case of mad cow disease in the U.S. is renewing worries that, contrary to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's claim last summer that mad cow "is on its way out," the fatal brain illness may actually be getting a foothold in America. The new case is also raising fresh concerns that should an outbreak occur, the Agriculture Department will be unable to contain it because it has no efficient way of tracking where sick cattle picked up the disease...
...poor that inspectors could not immediately determine where the diseased animal was born or raised. Inspectors did not even know the animal's age and were forced to examine its teeth to make a guess (about 10 years old, the FDA estimates). Investigators are also unsure where that cow, which was euthanized and buried after it fell sick, may have fed. This is crucial because the disease is believed to be spread in cattle feed carrying infected brain, bone or spinal tissue from other cows. Any cow that ate from the same troughs could be sick, too. According to research...
...Create a yodel-centric, cow-bell heavy performance art piece. Pretend it is a VES thesis...
...graphic novel, an intellectual nom-de-plume for the comic book, has recently been a cash cow for Hollywood’s big-budget film studios. Blockbusters like “Spiderman,” “X-Men,” and the “Fantastic Four” have merged Hollywood’s A-list with the action-saturated plotlines of childhood fiction...
...traits, one is how commited he was to technology as a mechanism for adding value and innovation to his business. Because he was so restless, and so enchanted by technology qua technology, he wasn’t very happy just inventing something and having that turn into a cash cow...