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...airborne virus; some of the sheep were then sent to the nearby Hexham Market, where they mixed with other livestock and immediately passed the virus on. "Pigs spread it, sheep carry it, cattle show it," says Johnson. William Cleave, a large cattle dealer from Devon, unwittingly purchased a flock of diseased sheep at the market and took the animals to another market in Cumbria, before sending them to a farm in Highampton, 700 km away...
...masters). For example, Hasbro's B.I.O. Bugs send out radio and infrared signals to sense who or what is in the room. If it's a predator, the bug might decide to fight, gaining strength with each match it wins. Touch its antenna, and it will scurry away to flock with other bugs. "You can train them, but you can't tame them," says creator Richard Yanofsky, who claims that B.I.O. Bugs are roughly as intelligent as cockroaches...
People will flock to the screen if they know they're gonna see great competition. While I still stand behind the old staples like the Super Bowl and March Madness, and almost never get off the couch during the Olympics, I admit I eagerly anticipate Temptation Island and Survivor because those shows provide better competition most days than your average NBA game...
...Such fervor caused Li's handlers to recast the New Year's message. Says New York spokeswoman Gail Rachlin: "The essay is about stepping out and telling of evil, not about creating evil." Such fine-tuning may be too subtle for the thousands of believers who flock to Beijing to voice their protest. Indeed, New York's disowning of the five immolators has bewildered some Falun Gong adherents living in China. "I know that violence is against the spirit of Falun Gong," says a 53-year-old factory worker from Nanjing. "But why don't our foreign friends support...
...first bit of luck came in the 1950s, when the U.S. banned imports of British goats and sheep. Reason: a flock of British sheep had a degenerative brain disease called scrapie. Scrapie is harmless to humans, it turns out, and generally harmless to cattle as well, even when infected sheep tissues are injected directly into a cow's brain. But scientists believe some sheep carcasses, ground up to add to British cattle feed, carried an unusual form of the disease that did manage to infect cows. That variant, renamed BSE, began to show up in British herds in the 1980s...