Word: alberta
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...Canadians weren't battered enough by microbial menaces after dealing with SARS, along comes mad cow. A routine inspection of a slaughtered Black Angus in Alberta revealed it had been infected with the disease. Inspectors have quarantined 16 sites across Canada as they explore how the cow got sick. Canada's beef industry is reeling--but it could get worse. Officials are checking whether cows on at least three farms in British Columbia may have had access to chicken feed that contained protein from the contaminated cow, thus spreading the disease more widely than thought. --By Alice Park
...provided valuable information on the "location, degree of development in capabilities, where they are," one U.S. official said. The information helped confirm that the North Korean program is much further along than the CIA suspected. Mad Cow Moos Again CANADA A routine inspection of a slaughtered Black Angus in Alberta revealed it had been infected with BSE. Food inspectors fear parts of the contaminated cow may have been inadvertently served to other cattle as feed, infecting them and potentially any beef eaters who consumed them. Inspectors quarantined 13 sites across Canada as they investigate where - and how - the Black Angus...
...fighting in Iraq may have subsided, but it seems companies have only just begun to exploit the commercial potential of Mohammed Saeed al - Sahhaf, the reality defying Iraqi Information Minister. Companies on at least three continents are already using a-Sahhaf in their marketing. The Northlands Park racecourse in Alberta, Canada, recently ran an ad suggesting the Information Minister would make a good race commentator since "a little inaccuracy [makes] a race more exciting"; in Kuwait City, the designer boutique Villa Moda is giving away promotional T shirts that bear a picture of al - Sahhaf and the slogan "We even...
...would impel top U.S. scientists to move overseas, where there is more public support. Britain banned reproductive cloning but is allowing therapeutic research to move forward. "Blanket bans on technology are almost always a mistake," argues Tim Caulfield, research director of the Health Law Institute at the University of Alberta. "You don't ban fertilizer because you can use it to make bombs. Don't ban cloning because it may be abused. What we should do is regulate the activities that may be abused, like human reproductive cloning...
Johnson spent last year playing in the Alberta Junior Hockey League for the Calgary Royals. He played left wing there but will make the transition to center for the Crimson...