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...NICKLES Spearheads overturn of Clinton's workplace-safety regulations. Hope he didn't strain his back...
...Northumberland, in the north of England. Vets believe pigs at the unit may have been fed leftovers from local school lunches that possibly contained bits of contaminated meat. The current virus, experts say, is the pan-Asian variant of the "O" type of foot-and-mouth, a highly infectious strain, which could have entered Britain through illegally imported meat. Once the virus got into the pig swill at Burnside, it was too late. A group of pigs from the farm ended up at a slaughterhouse in Essex, where the disease was first spotted on Feb. 20. Meanwhile, sheep and cattle...
...there is a niche of connoisseurship still underpopulated: the anti-snob. The industry is now catering to the downmarket drinker. Need to know about price or what to drink with steak or fish? No need to consult a guide; just look at the label. And you won't strain your budget. All these wines are under...
...girls and boys, even babies as young as three months, being raped, genitally and anally; of children performing sex acts on each other and on adults; young boys in chains; recordings of children's screams as they are beaten. Some of the kids are in obvious terror. Others, heartbreakingly, strain to trust their abusers. One Wonderland member created new videos by preying on his children's friends, even performing specific acts requested by those who were watching online. Last week seven British members of the club, who are among 107 people arrested in 12 countries, were sentenced to prison terms...
...This strain of Puritan denial of the graven image seems never to have quite vanished from American art. But how can you create a way of painting that is devoid, or at least as short as possible, of the delicious pleasures of light, shade, drama, color and suggestive texture--not to mention the primal infantile pleasure of smearing colored mud around on a virginal surface--associated with making a picture? The piety of this search, seen as an act of exemplary denial, is the ghost that haunts the machine of American abstraction--and the emotionless grids of LeWitt's work...