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Reed College, Temple University, the University of Vermont, Rutgers University, and City College of New York have come forward with varied expressions of reconciliation for their mistreatment of faculty during the Cold War, according to Schrecker’s 1986 book, No Ivory Tower...
...Sheep Department of Agriculture officials seized flocks of sheep from two Vermont farmers to test for a version of bse, or "mad cow" disease. The sheep, some of which were imported from Belgium and the Netherlands in 1996, tested positive in July for transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (tse), a class of neurological illness that includes scrapie and bse. Officials said they would take the sheep to Iowa to be tested and killed...
...Federal agents seized a second flock of Vermont sheep because...
...last week in El Cajon, Calif. But the professional production, part of the local school district's efforts to combat bullying, seeks in a small way to change the weekly headlines. More and more schools around the country are implementing antibullying policies. New laws in Georgia, New Hampshire and Vermont require them, and Colorado, home to the Columbine school massacre, is debating a measure. Skeptics say such legislation is fruitless and serves merely as a platform for politicians to display their practiced empathy. But some innovative programs around the country are showing concrete results that challenge the laissez-faire mentality...
...Department of Agriculture is not taking any chances that Europe's mad-cow disease will get a hoofhold here. This week the USDA will destroy 360 Vermont sheep, even though the agency does not know for sure that the animals have the disease--and may not know for two years. The sheep were imported from Europe in 1996. In 1998 the USDA placed them in quarantine after learning they may have consumed contaminated feed. Last July four of the animals developed transmissible spongiform encephalopathy, a class of diseases that includes mad cow. Within days, the USDA issued an emergency order...