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...Continental farmers grumbled that Britain, where the bse scare began, was once again exporting a food crisis to the rest of Europe. English farmers pinned blame for the epidemic on meat products imported from non-E.U. countries. Environmentalists denounced the drive toward intensified, low-cost farming as the culprit. And in Brussels, bureaucrats were warning that they couldn't afford another crisis: the E.U. has already spent $1 billion to bail out farmers suffering from the bse-induced plunge in beef consumption. "If [foot-and-mouth] does spread to the Continent," says Commission spokesman Luc Veron, "the money would...
...Distrust of government officials permeates India. And any inadvertent act or omission is viewed with suspicion, even though incompetence is often the culprit. When the census began on February 9, President K.R. Narayanan was the first to step up. As a member of the scheduled castes, he is required to name the caste community he belongs to, which is based in the southern state of Kerala. It was not on the census list. Embarrassed officials suggested he skip that column. He refused. India's census commissioner Jayant Kumar Banthia says that separate scheduled caste lists are compiled for each state...
...writers] to meet the demand." But TV comedy hasn't disappeared so much as migrated to hourlong shows such as Ed, Gilmore Girls, the resurgent Saturday Night Live, the plethora of late-night comics, and even reality shows like Survivor and dramas like The West Wing. The true culprit may be an overly cautious development process. "Networks give writers development deals and then interfere with development," says Larry David, co-creator of Seinfeld, who last fall debuted the discomfitingly funny, semi-improvisational Curb Your Enthusiasm on HBO. "Ultimately, anything not in their formula scares them." That formula--set-up, joke...
...biggest culprit for the Huskies' demise has been their schedule. The team has played five games in nine days--all against teams ranked no lower than sixth in the nation--with plane rides between Minnesota stuck in between. Northeastern Coach Joy Woog told The Boston Globe on Friday that her team simply ran out of gas in the third period against the Crimson...
...Alzheimer's disease, each the target of major vaccine research, vaccine designers are also eyeing autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis and multiple sclerosis, in which the body in effect attacks itself. At Israel's Technion, Dr. Nathan Karin and his colleagues have created genes that order up the culprit peptides--bits of protein that provoke the autoimmune response--then get the immune system to neutralize them. Says Karin: "Essentially, the process involves fooling the immune system into fighting itself...