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...plague spread throughout Europe, so did the recriminations. The Spanish daily El Mundo blasted Britain for its "excess confidence" that the country could prevent outbreaks of foot-and-mouth without vaccinating livestock, something most E.U. governments did until a decade ago. Continental farmers grumbled that Britain, where the bse scare began, was once again exporting a food crisis to the rest of Europe. English farmers pinned blame for the epidemic on meat products imported from non-E.U. countries. Environmentalists denounced the drive toward intensified, low-cost farming as the culprit. And in Brussels, bureaucrats were warning that they couldn...
...dismal economics were not enough to scare off would-be radiologists, "failure to diagnose breast cancer" has become the profession's No. 1 malpractice expense. Mammograms, by their very nature, miss 10% to 15% of all breast cancers. That means that even the best radiologists won't spot one cancer for every nine they detect. (Adopting more advanced techniques like magnetic resonance imaging doesn't solve the problem. MRI scans are far more expensive than mammograms, take three times as long and are much more labor intensive...
...TIME.com: Cheney apparently shoulders a great deal of responsibility in this administration, and works spectacularly hard. Will this latest health scare slow him down...
...this leaves Bush still facing a gap between his likability and his credibility, and with his presidency staked on a $1.6 trillion tax cut that has yet to acquire the kind of public momentum to scare Senate Democrats into submission. A public Republican "high bid" - which would have allowed Bush to cast his number as a compromise - has not materialized. Without a serious change in the wind, Bush's spinners and negotiators alike will have to sweat to make sure the final number is sufficiently closer to $1.6 trillion than the Democrats' $900 billion for their president to claim victory...
...industrial "agrofactories" to organic farms. Agriculture Minister Renate Künast is aiming to increase the proportion of organically farmed land from 2.6% to 20% within the next 10 years. Even without more government aid, Europe's organic farmers are enjoying flush times. "Every time there's another bse scare, our customers increase," says Richard Counsell, an organic farmer in southwest England. Jean Bessière, an organic butcher at Paris' Raspail market, says he is selling 30% more beef, and 100% more veal and pork, since October. Dominique Vérot, spokesman for France's National Federation of Organic...