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...drowned in a cesspool in a refugee camp. When Eszterhas was 5, his parents brought him to the U.S., where he grew up dirt poor and delinquent in the Hungarian section of Cleveland. His father edited a Hungarian-language newspaper, while at home his mother went slowly mad--she believed the electrical outlets were shooting rays at her. All this is affectingly told in rich, dry-eyed detail, leavened with the occasional Vonnegutesque sardonicism...
...Mad Cow?" described the discovery of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in a dairy cow in the U.S. [Jan. 12]. Mad-cow disease? They should call it mad-human disease! Only we humans would feed a vegetarian animal contaminated meat-and-bone meal, exposing it to a horrible disorder, and then be mainly concerned with our inability to eat it. Which species, I ask, is mad? LAKSHMI JACKMAN Austin, Texas...
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...