Word: mads
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...apparent bid to remedy the shortage of shrill outrage in this country, everybody has suddenly decided to get mad at actresses for smoking. At a press conference in Cannes, NICOLE KIDMAN bummed a cigarette from co-star Stellan Skarsgaard and lit up, prompting criticism from antismoking groups. Meanwhile, Fox 5 News in New York City "caught" BRITNEY SPEARS smoking at a Manhattan club; a group called Smoke Free Movies ran a full-page ad in the New York Times screeching at JULIA ROBERTS to stop smoking onscreen; and earlier this month there was a kerfuffle when snapshots of a topless...
...Canadians weren't battered enough by microbial menaces after dealing with SARS, along comes mad cow. A routine inspection of a slaughtered Black Angus in Alberta revealed it had been infected with the disease. Inspectors have quarantined 16 sites across Canada as they explore how the cow got sick. Canada's beef industry is reeling--but it could get worse. Officials are checking whether cows on at least three farms in British Columbia may have had access to chicken feed that contained protein from the contaminated cow, thus spreading the disease more widely than thought. --By Alice Park
...ancient Egyptians were the first to domesticate cats, which they regarded as sacred. Mertz carries on the tradition. In her two-story solarium, dappled with sunlight, it seems as though cats are everywhere, strutting and preening as household gods. "They're all a little mad at me, because yesterday was the day for the vet," confides Mertz. In all, there are five felines: Dorothy, Nefret, Emerson, Ellery and Sethos...
That's about all there is to the plot of Marooned in Iraq. But this half-mad movie by Iranian director Bahman Ghobadi (A Time for Drunken Horses), entirely played by Kurdish actors unknown to most of us, is a marvel--an odyssey through chaos and hysteria that finally ends in redemptive, if provisional, peace...
...Next Stop: Syria?" [April 28]: How can the U.S. government think of another war, this time against Syria? Have Americans gone mad? The military strikes on Iraq have just ended, and the problems in the aftermath are shocking and far from being solved. A humanitarian catastrophe is devastating a whole country. Millions of people are suffering terribly. It's time to think of peace and aid for the victims of American aggression against Iraq. MOZAFAR AHMED AL-HIYYAL Alexandria, Egypt...