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...dangerous to human beings? No. Britain has recorded only one case, in 1966, of foot-and-mouth disease in a human. That occurrence was mild, transient and showed symptoms similar to those of flu, plus blisters on the hands. Humans cannot contract the disease through consumption of infected meat or from other people...
...ANNA PAVLOVA And she's still skinny. Leading ballerina returns to Russia after 70-year absence?in an urn ALTHEA GIBSON Black '50s tennis champ gets her mug on cereal box. When will Ilie Nastase get his due? SIEGFRIED AND ROY Las Vegas illusionists and tiger fetishists sign lifetime contract. Is there...
...there is a severe shortage of psychometricians--specialists trained in educational measurement and test design. Last spring National Computer Systems (later purchased by textbook giant Pearson for $2.5 billion) mistakenly failed 7,930 Minnesota students on a basic-skills math test. Yet when Minnesota awarded its latest $3.4 million contract to develop new tests for middle and high schools, the state again turned to NCS Pearson. "I couldn't find a company with the accuracy rate that I think is high enough for high-stakes testing," complains Minnesota education commissioner Christine Jax. "There's not a lot of choice...
...Playboy offer to pose nude, though a Playboy representative said the figure was much lower. The tragic loss to greasy-palmed men is a victory for the arts, as Lauderdale plans to focus on a singing career. But again, she's doing it her way, nixing, she says, a contract with Capitol Records because they wanted her to be too Britney. "It's one of those things when they say you have all creative control," said Mandy, "and you find out your music's all changed around, and it's pop-y." Totally...
...eggs and butter for only three or four hours before they "crashed," entailing a call to an 800 number. A pound of wheat would be a pound of wheat*--meaning that it would neither weigh a pound nor be composed of grain without the purchase of a 12-month contract. A hamburger would be defined as two buns around a paper coupon promising the delivery of a meat patty as soon as meat-patty technology was rolled out nationally...