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The worldwide foot-and-mouth alert is a sobering demonstration of how quickly a single isolated infection can hop from farm to farm and continent to continent. The current crisis began when a bit of infected meat found its way into a school lunch in Britain's Northumberland in mid...
The U.S. move has been met with general approval at home and--surprisingly--in Europe as well. Foot-and-mouth has already led to the slaughter and incineration of 180,000 pigs, sheep and cows in Britain, with 100,000 more marked for destruction. On the day that the U.S...
No one knew when it might end. By Saturday, more than 50 incidents of foot-and-mouth in the U.K. had turned up-from Dover on the southeastern tip to Lockerbie in Scotland-and fresh cases were expected at the rate of six to 10 a day. The confirmation of...
Of all these events, only the dolphin was covered on the 11 p.m. news in Palm Beach County. So, someone watching might well have had no idea at all that our vice president was in the hospital. Many may still not know of the tragedy in Portugal. Which is, of...
There is an old saying about local news: "If it bleeds, it leads." The police officer in Jupiter was hospitalized on Monday night. So was Dick Cheney. So were 60 commuters in Portugal. The dolphin tale was heartwarming, but should it have prevented us from hearing about these other issues...