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...spreading of mad cow disease is a concern, but not a great risk, according to Harvard experts who have studied the issue...
...discovery of an infected mad cow in Washington state last month has prompted concerns that American beef may be contaminated...
...Former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture and Director of the Institute of Politics Daniel R. Glickman said last week that mad cow disease is not an epidemic...
...Brothers and accompanying dress slacks (Harvard taking its toll?) and he in a flannel jacket, a Wrangler button-clasp shirt and tight boot-cut jeans. The applicant comes from a ranch in the outlying area; his family raises Angus steers, and we talk for a little while about mad cow disease, about which he is extremely well-informed. Even with the mad cow scourge (which is really more of a whimper, he tells me), livestock sales shouldn’t decline much. (At this point, he holds a can of Copenhagen my way; I wave it off, while he takes...
...MSNBC, maybe even a little C-SPAN, if I felt wonkish enough. And I wasn’t at all disappointed with what I got: hours on Michael Jackson’s arrest, the Kobe Bryant trial and the latest headline-grabber, an isolated case of mad cow disease in Washington. See, unlike many of my fellow pretentious intellectual types at Harvard, who read all the news that’s fit to print on a daily basis but rarely deign to catch the evening news, I appreciate what mega-conglomerate news can provide for people like me?...