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Onlookers might easily mistake it for a murder scene, and the yellow tape now sealing access roads to a farm in Surrey, southwest of London, does indeed signal that a killer may again be on the loose in the U.K. Six years ago, foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), an infectious illness that targets animals with cloven hooves - pigs and ruminants such as cattle, sheep, goats and deer - devastated the British farming industry and British tourism and battered the reputation of Tony Blair's government. Ministers reacted too slowly when the disease was first detected and compounded that mistake by giving...
...episode was a tribute from one cadre of cartoon geniuses-South Park's Trey Parker and Matt Stone-to another, earlier one: Matt Groening, James L. Brooks and their team of highly educated misfits, who developed Groening's crudely drawn one-minute Tracey Ullman Show vignettes of a chinless yellow family into a half-hour sitcom, nay, a veritable comedy cosmos that this fall begins its record-breaking 19th season...
Heading toward the main building to interview witnesses, we observed a chilling landscape. Ambulances and emergency vehicles lined most of Avenida Washington Luís. Directly below us on the street, rescue workers had spread a huge tarp yellow tarp and covered it with empty body bags and back boards, anticipating the toll to come...
...Dangers of the China Trade" [July 9]: Have we selectively forgotten that mad-cow-diseased beef and other tainted food products like bagged spinach and peanut butter originated on U.S. soil within the past few years? To pathologize China's industries as corrupt not only reeks of centuries-old Yellow Peril rhetoric but also fails to acknowledge the shortcomings of transnational regulations. We must take responsibility for cleaning up our own backyard when demanding that others take care of theirs. Rachel Endo, Omaha, Nebraska...
About half an hour after the explosion, from behind yellow caution tape, dozens of rubberneckers snapped camera phone shots of the steam that was billowing as high as the nearby Chrysler Building. A small school bus sat a few feet away from the site, abandoned. TV helicopters showed what appeared to be pickup truck in the crater created by the explosion. Nearby, an elderly woman covered in dark brown debris and clearly alarmed approached two police officers, who offered to call an ambulance or drive her home. A few blocks away, some of the crowd formed a knot around...