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...accounts, the feasts that Wayne Waterhouse threw at his cabin overlooking Wisconsin's Brule River were fabulous. Every fall, Waterhouse would serve the bounty of his most recent hunting trips--heaping dishes of moose, elk and deer. But in 1993 Waterhouse died of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a brain disorder that can be triggered by mad-cow disease, and within six years, two of his fellow feastgoers had also died of rare brain disorders. Was the game they ate to blame? That's what Wisconsin health authorities--and now the Centers for Disease Control--want to know...
...come to any conclusions. The fear, however, is that chronic wasting disease, a mad cow-like illness that affects wild game, may have jumped the so-called species barrier. The fatal disease, which makes animals listless, has been endemic in Colorado herds for decades and was spotted in Wisconsin deer in February. Particularly worrisome is the fact that the illness is caused by infectious agents called prions that are not destroyed by cooking...
...most important lesson I’ve learned from my heroes this summer is that I’d never want to be one. Their greatness is their curse. They are constantly being called upon to be heroic. Kim has to go to Tokyo, Paris and Wisconsin on school nights; Hercules is on call whenever someone in ancient Greece has a problem; and due to the incompetence of the royal guards, Aladdin has to single handedly keep danger out of all of Agrabah...
...first varsity—undefeated during the dual season and blemished by only a loss to Wisconsin at Eastern Sprints— hardly faced a challenge through the competition, winning by over two lengths against a South African club in the semifinal and by an even larger margin against the British Molesey Boat Club in the final...
Though the Ladies’ Challenge Plate field included several world championship competitors, the club teams attending proved to be below the level of top college competition like Wisconsin, national champion California, and Washington, who beat California during the dual season. Harvard was the only elite college crew to attend Henley...