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...Foot-and-Mouth Plague Spreads The outbreak of foot and mouth disease showed up last week on farms in the Netherlands and Ireland, while a second case was identified in France. When veterinarians identified the disease in cows and goats at two farms near the eastern town of Olst, Dutch agriculture authorities ordered the slaughter of 20,000 animals within a 1-km radius. The source of infection was traced to cattle imported from Ireland, which confirmed its first cases in County Louth north of Dublin. In Britain dozens of cases were confirmed daily and 514 cases had been certified...
...least have had plenty of practice -if scant success -in explaining its position. Last week German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, who governs in a coalition with the environmentalist Greens, was there to air his differences on global warming and other issues in his first meeting with Bush. And Dutch Environment Minister Jan Pronk, who as chairman of the Kyoto process presided over the unsuccessful Hague conference last year, arrived last week to probe the still largely empty offices of the President's Executive Branch for some augury of what the Bush Administration wants...
...doesn't feel his or her culture is the only thing in town," she says. "Just one culture is not enough these days." Catherine Rubbens, 34, an environmental consultant in London who left the Netherlands after high school, speaks five European languages and says she feels more European than Dutch. "I notice as I start to adjust somewhere that I speak to myself in the language of that place." Rubbens belongs to a distinct class of young Europeans: mobile, multilingual professionals who live, work and play outside their native countries and who bounce across borders - for business or pleasure...
...means they're passionate about the European Union. Mention institutional reform and they bristle with excitement; ask of their ambitions and they gush about shaking up the E.U. "If you're young and want to change things, you should follow the power - and power is shifting toward Brussels," says Dutch Liberal Van der Laan...
CARDIAC BLUES Absence may make the heart grow fonder, but depression seems to make it weaker. A four-year study of nearly 3,000 Dutch men and women concludes that cardiac deaths are three to four times as high for those who suffer from major depression. The cause is probably a combination of the physiological consequences of depression and an unhealthy lifestyle--more common among the depressed. Treating the blues may be a great way to prevent ailing hearts...