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...festival of Eid al Adha without its main ritual, the sacrifice of sheep. In distant Thailand, officials even threatened to jail travelers caught bringing in beef or pork from any of the 15 European Union countries. And on Friday came more doleful news there will be no St. Patrick's Day parade in Dublin this year...
...year for the last decade-and one can see why so many farmers seem buffeted by forces beyond their control. Farmers in Britain questioned why the government allows the import of any beef from countries such as Botswana, Brazil and Argentina, where foot-and-mouth is endemic. Says Patrick Holden, director of the Soil Association, an organic farming lobbying group: "The globalization of agriculture is presumed to be a good thing, treating food commodities like processed steel and shipping it around the globe. We don't want that anymore...
...remains rare, experts say use of drugs for improving performance vastly increases the threat of substance abuse and dependency when a doping athlete is sidelined by injury or forced to retire from sports. "Doping requires athletes to defy social aversions for using drugs and syringes for nonmedical purposes," notes Patrick Magaloff, director of the French Olympic Committee's anti-doping mission. "Because that taboo has been broken during their careers, athletes who have doped are often less inhibited about using drugs in normal life than clean athletes or nonathletes." That risk is confirmed by officials at the Monte Cristo Clinic...
...weeks leading up to the announcement, the Globe, which monitored the search more closely than any other major newspaper, consistently intimated Bollinger was the frontrunner. Citing "people knowledgeable with the selection process," Globe reporter Patrick Healy wrote in a Feb. 22 article that Bollinger "has more reliable votes among the nine-member search committee...
...February 9 collision that killed nine Japanese civilians and ended the careers of several submarine officers. Defense attorney Charles Gittens, hired by Commander Scott Waddle, tried to discount the prosecutorial picture of the collision by pointing repeatedly to the negligence of one fire control technician, later identified as Patrick Seacrest. Gittens' attack was, according to observers, effective inasmuch as he got the prosecuting attorney to admit Cmdr. Waddle might not have had as much to do with the accident as was previously thought...