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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...
...development is not a long-term solution to America's energy problems. Our nation is addicted to petroleum, with an ever increasing habit, and even the most optimistic estimates of what might be recovered from anwr would only briefly delay the inevitable crisis. Selling the family jewels for another fix may hold a momentary attraction for the junkie in the throes of withdrawal, but it is always a bad idea. Perhaps our evangelist-in-chief should propose a 12-step program instead. EARL P. JONES Redding, Calif...
...curriculum, such as how to give presentations and interpret school demographic data. "Today school nurses need to be marketers in some ways," Pelt says. Nurses must know how to communicate with administrators on the need to hire a health aide, for example, or how to lobby a principal to fix water fountains so kids can get a drink from somewhere besides the soda machine...
...whether you are printing it yourself or dropping off your baby at the all-night whirling dervish of copies. Prevent yourself from looking too close; of course you will find mistakes, but what's to say that an errant mouse click won't create more while you try to fix...
...racket is proliferating so rapidly that alarmed FBI agents went public Thursday, well before they were ready to identify the bad guys and make arrests, to plead with e-tailers to fix the holes in their systems. "It's like walking down a row of stores, shaking the doorknobs and seeing which ones open up," says an agent in charge of the investigation...