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...Europe get into this fix? British veterinary investigators last week zeroed in on Burnside farm, a pig-fattening facility in Northumberland, in the north of England. Vets believe pigs at the unit may have been fed leftovers from local school lunches that possibly contained bits of contaminated meat. The current virus, experts say, is the pan-Asian variant of the "O" type of foot-and-mouth, a highly infectious strain, which could have entered Britain through illegally imported meat. Once the virus got into the pig swill at Burnside, it was too late. A group of pigs from the farm...
Early last week, Overseers received a Fed-Exed letter from the search committee inviting them to attend a meeting this weekend to confirm the committee's pick, although Monday's snowstorm delayed the delivery of some letters...
...University of California would keep using the SAT until black students catch up with whites, Asians and immigrants from the Caribbean. It's a matter of ethnic pride. I'm as fed up with the tortuous theories experts have concocted to explain why our kids' scores are the lowest of any racial group as I am with the bigots who claim that proves they can't ever measure up. There's simply no excuse for black youngsters with college-educated parents to perform worse than white youths whose folks only finished high school. The only way to silence the critics...
...Bush can blame Alan Greenspan for this one. The trigger was something the Fed head spoke of approvingly in his January testimony before the Senate. It was lost in the fireworks of a rather shockingly hearty endorsement of using tax cuts to drain off unwanted surpluses, but with Greenspan cutting back on his cheerleading and the Democrats feeling their oats, the idea has returned...
...when it comes to treading lightly, Bush is living up to his no-crushed-toes billing. At the post-meeting photo-op, Bush started spreading the love, calling the Fed chairman a "distinguished, thoughtful economist." And when reporters started sniffing for discord, Bush replied, "One of the things I'm certain that I should not do as President-elect is to try and put words in the mouth of Alan Greenspan...