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...discovery this week of a third case of mad cow disease in the U.S. is renewing worries that, contrary to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's claim last summer that mad cow "is on its way out," the fatal brain illness may actually be getting a foothold in America. The new case is also raising fresh concerns that should an outbreak occur, the Agriculture Department will be unable to contain it because it has no efficient way of tracking where sick cattle picked up the disease...
...brisk end of Sydney's business precinct, where offices are full at 7:30, morning or night, and it costs $40 to park for a few hours, Canberra has a small foothold. The Commonwealth's elected and appointed officials work out of a Phillip Street building that quietly echoes the Howard ethos: solid, functional, efficient. What you see on the outside is what you get inside. In the waiting room attached to the Prime Minister's Office, the lighting is subdued; the armchairs and art give no clue to era, fashion, or taste. Staffers speak in murmurs, and occasionally...
...Change and Reform” on the other.For the Bush administration, the result of the free Palestinian elections illuminates the dangers inherent in the process of democratizing the Middle-East: extremists use democracy, along with popular resentment of corrupt autocratic rulers, to establish a strong foothold in Middle-East politics. Furthermore, the American administration and its European counterparts will have to—rightly—reassess aid flowing to the Palestinian Authority. In the process, they should keep in mind that, if they opt to cut the light on our neighborhood, innocent people will be left in the dark...
Harvard has already established a foothold in the field of nanotechnology—the study and development of devices on the scale of a nanometer, which is one-millionth of a meter*. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...
...eavesdropping controversy turned out to offer a foothold. "If somebody from al-Qaeda is calling you, we'd like to know why," Bush declared, while polls showed Americans weren't particularly concerned about warrantless wiretapping if authorities were using it to try to fight terrorism. When a new threat on tape from Osama bin Laden emerged, Bush was set up to return to the stage as Protector in Chief, the Republicans' award-winning role in the past two elections...