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Another KSG professor said that Krueger’s boss at Princeton, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs Dean Anne-Marie Slaughter, would be a strong candidate for Nye’s post...
...aisle to keep America moving forward? Bob August Nashville, U.S. It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Cow Europe has been able to live with and protect itself against mad-cow disease, which seems to be manageable if farmers and slaughterhouses are willing to test cattle before slaughter [Jan. 12]. The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization encourages the testing of all slaughter cattle for mad-cow disease, but since this is a U.N. agency, I guess the U.S. won't consider its advice. Markus G. Schriber Geneva Canadian beef consumption went up after Canada's single reported case...
...China in 1957, and the Hong Kong flu of 1968 together killed more than 1.5 million people worldwide ... the concern is that another fatal combination could leap the species barrier at any time ... Shortridge says, 'It's a dangerous situation' ... Since the 1997 outbreak when Hong Kong authorities' citywide slaughter of 1.4 million chickens was largely credited with stopping the flu's spread, the government has instituted several preventive measures: increased testing of imported chickens, segregating live waterfowl from other poultry at markets and enforcing a monthly market 'rest day' to disinfect cages...
...bird flu that is spreading with alarming speed through Asia's poultry farms--killing thousands of chickens in 10 countries and forcing the slaughter of millions more--has so far infected a relatively small number of humans. Fewer than a dozen people in Vietnam and Thailand have caught the flu, all by direct exposure to infected chickens, and there is no evidence yet of the disease spreading from one person to another. But when humans do catch it, it is extremely deadly; at least eight people have already died, most of them children like Kaptan. And the great fear...
Europe has been able to live with and protect itself against mad-cow disease, which seems to be manageable if farmers and slaughterhouses are willing to test cattle before slaughter. The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization encourages the testing of all slaughter cattle for mad-cow disease, but since this is a U.N. agency, I guess the U.S. won't consider its advice. MARKUS G. SCHRIBER Geneva...