Word: mads
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...question to ponder before voting this primary season: Is it more important to teach Bush and the Republicans a lesson or to elect someone who is willing to work with people from both sides of the aisle to keep America moving forward? Bob August Nashville, U.S. It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Cow Europe has been able to live with and protect itself against mad-cow disease, which seems to be manageable if farmers and slaughterhouses are willing to test cattle before slaughter [Jan. 12]. The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization encourages the testing of all slaughter cattle...
...wonder then that Bush remains so out of touch with reality—and so willing to dismiss the many critics who raise valid concerns domestically and abroad. With any luck, voters will send him a message that hits a lot harder than an electronic political Mad Lib this November...
Europe has been able to live with and protect itself against mad-cow disease, which seems to be manageable if farmers and slaughterhouses are willing to test cattle before slaughter. The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization encourages the testing of all slaughter cattle for mad-cow disease, but since this is a U.N. agency, I guess the U.S. won't consider its advice. MARKUS G. SCHRIBER Geneva...
Canadian beef consumption went up after Canada's single reported case of mad-cow disease last May. We rallied around an industry that we knew was being devastated by paranoia. Unlike Americans, whose media have institutionalized the use of fear, and the Japanese, who used the BSE incident to make a political statement, Canadians looked first at the practical risks. Beef isn't dangerous. This is a matter of faith as well as common sense. JESSE HEFFRING Montreal...
DIED. GEORGE WOODBRIDGE, 73, longtime illustrator for Mad magazine; of emphysema; on Staten Island, N.Y. Woodbridge, who had a second career as an illustrator of historically accurate military-history works, created witty, fine-grained caricatures of everyone from movie stars to anonymous, put-upon suburbanites for the humor magazine for nearly half a century...