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There really isn't much to say about the Dartmouth meet on Wednesday except that the slaughter was over pretty quickly. Wilbur mentioned that it was hard for the team to maximize its intensity level because it felt very confident in a victory--a luxuary few teams enjoy--but its confidence paid off as it belittled the Big Green with an 8-2 pounding...
...Western diplomats suspect that Stanisic had an important role in organizing Serbia's paramilitary infiltrations in the Croatian city of Knin in 1990 and the paramilitary operations in 1991 that preceded Serbian army incursions into the Croatian city of Vukovar. Those Serbian moves resulted in appalling atrocities, including the slaughter of 260 wounded soldiers and civilians at a hospital in Vukovar...
ACQUITTED. BRIGITTE BARDOT, 62, 1950s sex kitten turned animal-rights crusader; of charges of inciting racism; in Paris. The accusation stemmed from a Bardot letter published last year in a French newspaper decrying Muslim sacrificial slaughter of sheep, likening it to pagan rituals...
Britain's problems began in 1986, when a BSE epidemic struck herds across the country, ultimately leading to the death of up to 1,000 cows a week. To protect the food supply, the government ordered the slaughter of affected cattle and banned the sale of cow brains, intestines and other offal, thought to be the organs likeliest to harbor the disease. And in 1988 it halted the practice of feeding cattle the remains of diseased sheep, which is where the infection is believed to have started. But by that time the damage was done...
...cheapest way to get protein into cattle is to feed them scraps of animals left over from slaughter," says Richard Rhodes, author of the soon-to-be-released book Deadly Feast (Simon & Schuster), which traces the history of BSE and similar diseases. "When British cows started to get sick, this practice wasn't banned. Instead industry was merely required to avoid using parts from animals known to be infected. This was hardly foolproof, and it was inevitable that some diseased flesh would be eaten by cows and enter the food chain...