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James McInnes is going broke. The 45 hectares of sprawling pasture he owns in the southwestern English county of Devon lie fallow, its 70 head of cattle close to worthless. He can't find a buyer for the ancestral farm, which he is now desperate to sell. An outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease has turned the verdant countryside into a gruesome field of slaughter. The prevailing sound is the crack of pistol shots felling livestock. Farms appear barren save for the smoldering pyres on which hundreds of perfectly healthy animals were incinerated last week. So far McInnes' herd...
...decade without incurring heavy penalties. However, both the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan have estimated that this figure is too high by more than $400 billion. It is inexcusable for the Bush administration to declare victory and go home when billions in redeemable debt lie unpaid...
James McInnes is going broke. The 45 hectares of sprawling pasture he owns in the southwestern English county of Devon lie fallow, its 70 head of cattle close to worthless. He can't find a buyer for the ancestral farm, which he is now desperate to sell. An outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease has turned the verdant countryside into a gruesome field of slaughter. The prevailing sound is the crack of pistol shots felling livestock. Farms appear barren save for the smoldering pyres on which hundreds of perfectly healthy animals were incinerated last week. So far McInnes' herd...
...community's quality of life may lie in civic involvement, according to massive new survey designed by a seminar at the Kennedy School of Government...
...climate changes that are going to be most devastating lie largely in the tropical and sub-tropical regions. But even in a country like the U.S., if you look at a hot spell like the one a few summers ago in Chicago, hundreds of people died. Those people were not people like you or me, they were elderly, infirm, who could not afford to buy or maybe even turn on an air-conditioner...