Word: livestock
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...British tourism and battered the reputation of Tony Blair's government. Ministers reacted too slowly when the disease was first detected and compounded that mistake by giving reassurances that quickly proved false. The lush British countryside was laced with gothic horrors as the carcasses of six and half million livestock, culled to eradicate the epidemic, burned on pyres. The total cost to the U.K. was estimated at ?8.5 billion...
...Sichuan's Qu County, the floodwaters have now receded. But with crops destroyed and livestock killed, the prices for meat and vegetables are soaring. And, as residents begin to rebuild, they also think about what could happen next time. "The floods in this area have gotten worse and worse over the years," says Xu. "I was never worried about the flood...
...This week alone, firefighting fatigue claimed the lives of four people - two firefighters and two civilians - upping the death toll to nine since the start of the season. Blazes continued to rage in all corners of the country, razing thousands of crops, scores of livestock and a number of homes. Hordes of tourists were forced to evacuate hotels and holiday resorts, fleeing Greece as local governors declared states of emergency in a raft of districts and islands. Bewildered by the crisis, Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis purportedly scrapped plans for an early election, turning instead to Russian President Vladimir Putin...
...Given that corn is regularly used in livestock and poultry feed, bacon, eggs and milk could see prices bumped up. Enjoy hamburgers? They could grow more costly. As many as a quarter of the products in a typical grocery store use corn in some way, so supermarket prices may well be impacted by ethanol demand. Prices for bread, milk and beef have already risen nationwide...
...Guha intertwines biographies of political leaders with anecdotes that show how ordinary Indians have helped to sustain their extraordinary body politic. During the Emergency, he notes, when public dissent was curbed and newspapers were censored, an article published in an economic magazine under the innocuous title "Livestock Problems in India" began with the line: "There are at present 580 million sheep in the country." It was a premature judgment, for those same sheep, ultimately, did not relinquish their freedoms, nor have they limited their democratic aspirations to simply voting at the polls. They have been behind a whole host...