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...infected. Why? British vets say vaccines can actually make testing for disease more difficult, since it is impossible to tell whether an animal's antibodies come from the vaccine or the virus. And even vaccinated animals can harbor the live virus for up to two years. Says David Tyson, president of the British Veterinary Association: "If you go down the vaccine route, you cannot be declared disease-free." And that makes it very difficult to sell goods overseas. So the decision not to vaccinate was in part an economic one: destroying livestock after they become infected is cheaper than preventing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Slaughterhouse | 3/12/2001 | See Source »

Today's dance teachers understand that students who enjoy their classes are likely not only to stay but also to bring along their friends. Price Tyson, 9, and his older brother Robby Tyson, 14, attended a weeklong dance camp last summer at Gulf Coast School of Performing Arts in Biloxi, Miss. The brothers had so much fun that they decided to continue dance lessons again this summer and have persuaded "a whole lot of other guys to come to camp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Families: They're Having A Ball | 3/12/2001 | See Source »

...crushing disappointment. It was the reverse of "The Sixth Sense" - instead of a cool ending that made the whole thing more interesting, the ending made what had proceeded it even more boring and foolish. I felt like I had watched one of those pay-per view Mike Tyson fights where there are like a million clowns on the undercard and the main bout ends up with somebody biting somebody else's nose and so the whole thing is a waste. There were a few nice moments - Shelby Lynne's win for Best New Artist was well-deserved, and Eminem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Grammys Postmortem | 2/22/2001 | See Source »

...huge: the $3.5 billion in annual textbook sales is greater than the sales of all hardcover books to adults. Textbooks are superficial in part because they must conform to state standards, which are often encyclopedic in scope. But "the weakest link in the chain," according to education researcher Harriet Tyson, is "textbook evaluation." Most committee members have little time to examine texts thoroughly, frequently making decisions based on splashy graphics and frills like CD-ROMs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Amending the Texts | 2/12/2001 | See Source »

...huge: the $3.5 billion in annual textbook sales is greater than the sales of all hardcover books to adults. Textbooks are superficial in part because they must conform to state standards, which are often encyclopedic in scope. But "the weakest link in the chain," according to education researcher Harriet Tyson, is "textbook evaluation." Most committee members have little time to examine texts thoroughly, frequently making decisions based on splashy graphics and frills like CD-ROMs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Amending the Texts | 2/4/2001 | See Source »

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