Word: scaring
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...What are you suggesting that I do about it? I've signed on for a four-year term." DICK CHENEY, U.S. Vice President, vowing to remain in office despite his latest heart scare...
...foot-and-mouth disease creating Europe's second agriculture crisis of the year, Renate Künast, Germany's new Minister for Consumer Protection, Food and Agriculture, is getting some quick in-job training. Fresh from ordering the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of animals in the "mad cow" scare, Künast has been forced to authorize more killings - this time of livestock imported from Britain as a precaution against foot-and-mouth disease. Künast is a member of the Green party, and some Greens complain that her large-scale slaughter of animals - when only...
...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...