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Spent a night at George W. Bush's Crawford, Texas ranch...
FARM AID Saddled with $16 million in IRS debt, country crooner Willie Nelson had to let the agency sell off his 44-acre Texas ranch in 1991. But the auction's winner, who paid $204,000, didn't send Nelson on the road again. He returned the home to the singer, praising Nelson's longtime advocacy of farmers...
...this week's case, which was discovered on an Alabama ranch, record-keeping was so poor that inspectors could not immediately determine where the diseased animal was born or raised. Inspectors did not even know the animal's age and were forced to examine its teeth to make a guess (about 10 years old, the FDA estimates). Investigators are also unsure where that cow, which was euthanized and buried after it fell sick, may have fed. This is crucial because the disease is believed to be spread in cattle feed carrying infected brain, bone or spinal tissue from other cows...
Dick Cheney's reluctance to reveal how his Armstrong Ranch idyll exploded into a bird-shot blunder triggered readers to pepper the V.P. with charges of sly unaccountability. But others insisted that the only misfire in the overblown affair was the press shooting itself in the foot...
What a bunch of brave hunters was at Armstrong Ranch! They rode around in old jeeps and got out to shoot helpless birds. Real sports, aren't they...