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...bizarre incident in Tucson, Ariz., a group of skinheads built a Nazi bunker on city property (it was bulldozed) and then, a few weeks later, mounted a cow's head on the hood of a 1970 Ford Thunderbird and drove around town shouting white-power slogans. Many of today's race-hate groups, however, are more sophisticated. According to the TIME/CNN survey, 75% of white teens and 55% of black teens say they have access to a computer with Internet capability at home or school. There they may find that hate groups are also plugging in and logging on. Rabbi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KIDS AND RACE | 11/24/1997 | See Source »

...COW Scientists may be closer to a blood test for mad-cow disease in animals. They've come up with a new way to detect prions, the infectious agents that cause the disease. Until now, the only way to track down prions has been to perform a biopsy on the dead cow's brain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Nov. 17, 1997 | 11/17/1997 | See Source »

...Comeback, the irredeemable badman Parker returns, tougher than ever. His old target was the Mafia (you don't want even a bad-guy hero brutalizing widows and orphans). This time the cash cow is a sleazy televangelist. The holdup goes like grease, netting several garbage bags full of bucks donated by the pious, when suddenly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: NAUGHTY, BUT ALSO NICE | 11/3/1997 | See Source »

Structural violence stems from the form and logic of a political system. This violence is used to cow the population into submission in order to support the system. In China this structural violence has taken the form of human rights abuses in a variety of guises meant to destroy any political dissent, free thought or understanding of personal freedom...

Author: By Adam J. Levitin, | Title: Jiang's Halloween Costume | 10/31/1997 | See Source »

Doyle found that several types of bacteria inside the cow make their own repellent against E. coli 0157. So he took those bacteria from cattle droppings and tissue, grew them in the lab and fed them to calves in their milk...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scientists Fight Salmonella, E. coli | 10/30/1997 | See Source »

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