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...Minister Nick Brown announced plans for the "pre-emptive" killing of every pig and sheep within 3 km of any infected farm in Cumbria and southwest Scotland. By some accounts, the massive slaughter order could doom more than a million animals. Officials even considered calling in army sharpshooters to gun down sheep - including newborn lambs and heavily pregnant ewes - in the fields where they grazed. The cost: $10 million and rising in compensation to farmers and an estimated $150 million a week in losses to the tourist industry as visitors heed calls to avoid the countryside...
...pioneering efforts to legislate against bullying after two school tragedies. In 1994 Brian Head, a chubby, bespectacled 15-year-old who had been taunted for years, broke when a classmate at Etowah High School in Woodstock slapped him. He shouted, "I can't take it anymore!," pulled out a gun and shot himself in the head. Four years later, Josh Belluardo was punched in the head--and killed--by a bully who also attended Etowah. The next year, Georgia passed a three-strikes-and-you're-out policy. After three bullying offenses, middle and high school students may be shipped...
Just 15 years later, my parents and my school must seem spectacularly negligent. In the past few years, 17 states have made it a crime to leave a loaded firearm within reach of a minor. And you don't have to bring a gun to school to get suspended. In the post-Columbine era, a fingernail clipper will do, or a pair of scissors, according to a Harvard report released last year on zero-tolerance policies against "weapons...
...slipped." David's parents, having learned of his travails, went to school administrators. But the harassment was ceaseless, and David's thoughts darkened: "I felt, 'What did I do to deserve this?' I wanted revenge. I never sat down and planned anything--I personally couldn't pick up a gun and kill someone, it's not who I am--but I will tell you, I did want to hurt them. I wanted them to feel how bad I felt...
...first few episodes, Bush stages a fake execution for his old frat buddies but mistakenly takes them to the real one; the Chief Executive steals cable but mixes up the wires and launches a bomb at the Third World; and an attempted assassination makes the President rethink gun control...