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With foot-and-mouth disease creating Europe's second agriculture crisis of the year, Renate Künast, Germany's new Minister for Consumer Protection, Food and Agriculture, is getting some quick in-job training. Fresh from ordering the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of animals in the "mad cow" scare, Künast has been forced to authorize more killings - this time of livestock imported from Britain as a precaution against foot-and-mouth disease. Künast is a member of the Green party, and some Greens complain that her large-scale slaughter of animals - when only...
...game is at its most frenzied at Babylon. The man by the pillar smiles hesitantly at Fifi. She grins back, pops a mint and slinks on over. They mouth words to each other, not that they can really hear over the techno din. He says he works for a financial company. She says she owns stocks. Pretty soon he's got his hand on the small of her back and is drawing her closer. When he reaches over and nuzzles her neck, she closes her eyes and leans her head back. But only for a moment. Soon, she opens...
...makes a pistol out of his thumb and forefinger, cocks his wrist and aims at an imaginary target across the room. "Locked and loaded," he says, looking over with a wide, confident, closed-mouth grin. It's 11:35 p.m., and he's ready for sport. This is a night for kau lui - a woman-hunting night...
...advertised via word of mouth and e-mails sent to various student groups on campus...
...During previous outbreaks in Eastern Europe, governments there chose to inoculate infected or exposed animals against foot-and-mouth. But, as critics point out, once an animal is inoculated, it's impossible to tell, without cutting-edge and rarely used tests, whether the animal is carrying the disease and is therefore highly contagious to other animals...