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...panic over bovine spongiform encephalopathy, commonly known as "mad cow" disease, spread all the way to Japan last year, where a handful of cases caused beef sales to plummet. The good news was that researchers using a mathematical model estimated that the brain-wasting BSE variant in humans may max out at 100 cases per year in Britain, ground zero for mad cow, and kill no more than a few thousand people in the coming decade. Feel any better...
...behind? Meet Noah the gaur, the first endangered clone. The gaur is a species of wild ox that is fast disappearing from its native India and Burma. Noah started out as a skin cell on an adult gaur that was fused with an empty egg from an ordinary cow and then brought to term by another cow named Bessie. Scientists hope that similar operations will someday be a practical way to keep endangered species alive. Too late for Noah, however. He died from an infection two days after he was born...
...could have it all ways - is all gone. Daschle needn't even hit too hard on the tax bill that, after all, 10 of his compatriots helped pass - all he's got to say is that the surpluses are gone (ahem) the economy may not be the IRS cash cow it was in the late '90s (ahem again) and that the post Sept. 11 world is going to require spending on necessaries and saving for the demographic looting of entitlement programs to come...
...mirror. If that's her first name, no wonder she goes by Jordan KEN CAMINITI Onetime baseball MVP is busted in Houston for crack. Cami may want to rethink his decision to quit baseball for a career of drug addiction KING MSWATI III Swaziland royal fines himself one cow after marrying an underage girl, proving that he remains impartial despite the conflict of interest...
...Shaolin is now one of China's most popular tourist destinations and impoverished Henan's most reliable cash cow. The temple drew more than a million visitors last year. For $5 they get a tour of the spruced-up shrine with a local guide well-versed in its elaborately embroidered history. Picturesquely decrepit old-timers man donation boxes at each stop along the way, and then it's off to buy tiny brass Buddhas and plastic prayer beads at stalls crowding the temple's gates. For martial arts displays, a lucky visitor might spot a young boy in a monk...