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...Average number of bets per hamster race since the competitions were introduced, compensating for a decrease in horse racing owing to foot-and-mouth disease...
...mood in Europe is not panicked, but it is worried. Even in Britain, the epicenter of the foot-and-mouth disaster, farm communities may be devastated, but through last week they were suffering in resignation. Denise Walton, who with her husband Chris raises 250 head of beef cattle and 450 sheep in Berwickshire, near the Scottish border, talks sadly about being "at war with a silent enemy, never knowing where it is, and being forced to stay isolated on our farms." Prince Charles gave $720,000 last week to help those hit the hardest; he said he feared a harvest...
...rest of Europe, the arrival of mad-cow in January and foot-and-mouth last week is more recent and thus more alarming. There were lines seven miles long at the Spanish border as authorities made all vehicles from France drive over disinfectant-filled carpets. Beef consumption is down 40% in Germany, Italy and Spain. Le Carnivore, a restaurant in the French city of Nantes that specializes in such alternative meats as ostrich, kangaroo and bison, is booming. French farmers estimated their losses at $185 million a month if all the embargoes against their produce hold...
Such enthusiastic word of mouth has helped give the local tourist industry growth figures that a lot of FORTUNE 500 companies would envy: more than 53,000 Americans visited in 2000, up 20% from the year before, and the U.S. is now Iceland's No. 1 tourist market. Tourism generates 13.6% of Iceland's foreign earnings, making it the second biggest industry after fishing...
Currently, there are no licensing requirements for geriatric-care managers, although there is a voluntary certification process. Besides word-of-mouth recommendations, you can contact the National Association of Professional Geriatric Care Managers in Tucson, Ariz., by phone (520-881-8008) or on the Web at www.caremanager.org...