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...nothing to do with the prevalence of the health risk itself. Only three people in continental Europe are known to have died from the human variant of bovine spongiform encephalopathy in the last decade. Despite the recent rise in the number of bovine cases, the chances of encountering a mad cow on the Continent are tiny: since 1990 the incidence of bse in cows in Europe is fewer than 2,000, compared to 180,000 in Britain. And yet across Europe, beef consumption has plunged 27% in the last three months; in Germany it has been cut in half. This...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Viewpoint: Give Us Your Beef | 2/12/2001 | See Source »

...Maralyn - sorry, Mad Dog - was the one to go, seemingly because she fell down a few times on the tied-together obstacle-course immunity challenge, and got blamed for the Ogakor's loss to Kucha, who successfully compensated for Rodger's three heart attacks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's the Ice Floe for Maralyn | 2/8/2001 | See Source »

...Tina and Maralyn and one other swing justice against Mitchell, but when push came to shove he was all alone, lying to the camera about how "You just look tired" (though Mitchell is getting very thin). Jerri got a vote from Maralyn, which would have been fun if Mad Dog had had any help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's the Ice Floe for Maralyn | 2/8/2001 | See Source »

...this solemn undertaking has more the air of a stubborn exercise than an imaginative act. Indeed, there are times when, as in The Location of a Line, 1975 (in the catalog but not included in the Whitney incarnation of the show), the written instructions sound like a mad, pedantic math teacher droning himself and everyone else within range into a coma. Compared with this boilerplate, Euclid reads like Mickey Spillane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: A Beauty Really Bare | 2/5/2001 | See Source »

...nothing to do with the prevalence of the health risk itself. Only three people in continental Europe are known to have died from the human variant of bovine spongiform encephalopathy in the last decade. Despite the recent rise in the number of bovine cases, the chances of encountering a mad cow on the Continent are tiny: since 1990 the incidence of bse in cows in Europe is fewer than 2,000, compared to 180,000 in Britain. And yet across Europe, beef consumption has plunged 27% in the last three months; in Germany it has been cut in half. This...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I'll Have the Beef... | 2/5/2001 | See Source »

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