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...Menu Foods pet products tainted by melamine--which caused kidney failure in more than 100 pets--were pulled from shelves. A SHOCKING DISPLAY A Humane Society video of workers at a Chino, Calif., slaughterhouse forcing unhealthy animals to move by prodding them or using forklifts caused an uproar when it spread online. It prompted a USDA investigation, which found that these "downer" cows--ones that are unable to walk--weren't being properly inspected...
...There is rampant speculation within the pages of the Collegian that the university president’s attempts to sell the paper are connected to the public uproar over the Bush editorial last fall, when the editor-in-chief, David McSwane, was disciplined but allowed to keep his position. Nevertheless, the incident is hardly grounds to hand over responsibility for the paper to an outside company. In the words of Sean Reed, the Collegian’s editorials editor, “a petty dispute with a small group of students is no reason to hand a CSU tradition...
...constant has been a concerted effort to draw attention to issues and perspectives that have gone unnoticed, Faust says. And while she says she has rarely caused “revolutionary uproar,” this attitude did give Faust her biggest taste of historical controversy...
Perhaps, but no matter who was behind Bhutto's assassination, one thing seems clear early in its aftermath: it has helped create the uproar and turmoil al-Qaeda has always seen as its best method of destabilizing enemy regimes it wants to replace. "To al-Qaeda, any means of bringing that about is fair game," the French counter-terrorism official notes, saying the group's active involvement or connivance in Bhutto's murder may be a mere detail compared to the result. "If its leaders thought political assassination of Musharraf's main rival would create real trouble for Musharraf himself...
...States - which controls Iraqi airspace - tried to forestall a Turkish invasion, but eventually caved into Turkish demands and agreed to a limited incursion. The fact that Turkey was ready to risk alienating its American ally for an operation with little chance of strategic success is a testament to the uproar by the Turkish public for action against the PKK. But it is also a troubling sign of the role that Turkey will play in Iraq as American power recedes...