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...Though the farmers typically made the most noise, they were hardly the only ones affected by the crisis. At the Paris wholesale market in Rungis, white-smocked vendors wander gloomily among hanging sides of beef as a trickle of customers-mostly butchers and restaurateurs-poke and prod the carcasses. Especially hard hit is Francis Fauchère, whose firm Eurodis caters to supermarkets, restaurant chains and school cafeterias-many of which have eliminated beef from their menus. "What's killing us is the doubt," says Fauchère, whose sales plunged as much as 60%. "All this meat is tested...
...international opprobrium doesn't prod Europe to throw open its doors, there are signs that economic self-interest will. Last November the European Commission declared that "there is a growing recognition that the 'zero' immigration policies of the last 30 years are no longer appropriate." Germany announced plans last March to admit 20,000 foreign computer experts over the next three years, and Chancellor Gerhard Schrsder is pushing to expand this green-card initiative to workers in other sectors. Ireland has loosened immigration requirements for non-E.U. workers in technology, nursing and construction. Even Italy's government has introduced...
...international opprobrium doesn't prod Europe to throw open its doors, there are signs that economic self-interest will. Last November the European Commission declared that "there is a growing recognition that the 'zero' immigration policies of the last 30 years are no longer appropriate." Germany announced plans last March to admit 20,000 foreign computer experts over the next three years, and Chancellor Gerhard Schrsder is pushing to expand this green-card initiative to workers in other sectors. Ireland has loosened immigration requirements for non-E.U. workers in technology, nursing and construction. Even Italy's government has introduced...
Antibodies are also being drafted to prod the immune system into attacking cancer cells. Clinicians have long dreamed of marshaling the body's own defenses to fight cancer, if only they could get the immune system to recognize cancer cells as easily as it spots foreign invaders such as bacteria and viruses. Researchers at Dendreon Corp. in Seattle have found a way to do just that by enlisting dendritic cells, some of the body's most potent immune stimulators...
...Ellen Frankfort wrote in the Village Voice, Kennedy tried to use "illogic to prod into consciousness the undercover connections between the wastes of the body and the stench of the body politic...