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...first arise from a sheep disease gone spontaneously wild, something similar could happen here--and not just with sheep. U.S. officials have found that elk in Western states suffer from a prion disorder called chronic wasting disease that causes severe weight loss and listlessness. When contaminated tissue was injected into the brains of cows, they too developed the disease (although cows that merely ate elk meat did not). Last week advisers to the FDA took up the question of whether deer, closely related to elk, might pose a danger to venison eaters. "We have to be vigilant," says Linda Detwiler...
...respect the environment, I don't see any reason we shouldn't pursue this course. Today we have access to new technology that may allow development with minor damage to the environment. We must take a proactive approach while working to preserve the forest. LUIS EDUARDO M. MONTEIRO Elk Grove Village...
...parts. Brian Wolslegel, the Mosinee, Wis., taxidermist, with a former partner began experimenting with moving parts several years ago. He sells 200 to 300 robots a year at about $800 a pop. In the past six years, conservation officers from 45 states and Canada have bought Wolslegel's robotic elk, turkey, deer and bear. Wolslegel glues real animal hides to polyurethane molds, cuts off the heads and installs batteries and robotics, then slides the heads back on. (The very process, oddly enough, that's used to make presidential candidates.) "I'm backed up about 50 orders right now," says Wolslegel...
...Those prone to smelling rodents in the Clinton White House, such as The Nation's left-wing columnist Alexander Cockburn, point out that the presale assessment of the Elk Hills land was done not by the Department of Energy, as would usually be the case, but by a private firm, ICF Kaiser. And then, with a note of "gotcha," Cockburn throws in the fact that ICF Kaiser's chairman is former Gore campaign manager Tony Coelho...
...sale was questioned by environmentally oriented government departments such as the EPA and the Fish and Wildlife Service, but that the DOE went ahead under pressure to meet a congressional deadline for the sale. To be sure, it was Newt Gingrich's Republican revolutionaries who revived plans to sell Elk Hills back in 1995, and they congratulated themselves over its sale as a vindication of the Reagan legacy...