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...closed the BBC's Afghanistan office because of the organization's coverage of the action. Photographs confirmed that a third Buddha statue had been demolished, but authorities denied access to the site of the two largest figures. Later in the week, Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar ordered the slaughter of 100 cows to "atone for the delay" in destroying the statues. In an unrelated development, the U.N. suspended aid to Afghans encamped near the Tajik border because of the presence of armed men among the displaced population...
With 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...
...nast also took flak for opposing the mass killing of animals to help support beef prices during the bse crisis. But after being lobbied by farmers, suffering from a 50% collapse of beef consumption in just two months, and officials from other countries, she reluctantly agreed to the slaughter. "We were relieved," said Michael Lohse of the German Farmers' Association. "The situation in the stables is a catastrophe...
...part because they have seen the survivors of school massacres weeping after the slaughter, many kids are helping to stop the shooting before it starts by sharing information about troubled peers. "The best metal detector is the student," says Ronald Stephens of the National School Safety Center. That's because in more than 75% of school-violence incidents, the attacker had told someone first, according to a post-Columbine study by the Secret Service that applied its threat-assessment techniques to school safety...
...stepped up frantic efforts to prevent foot-and-mouth disease from crossing the English Channel. As new cases of the contagious animal virus turned up in Northern Ireland and Scotland, Germany ordered the destruction of sheep and goats recently imported from Britain. France sent 50,000 sheep to the slaughter and the European Commission banned U.K. livestock imports until at least March 9. Britain-which had already halted the export of all livestock, milk and meat products-restricted animal movements. The crisis bit deep into the rural economy and reignited national debate about food safety, the future of agriculture...