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...grade school, I am relatively under-whelmed at what was accomplished. It seems to me that in grades 1 through 5 teachers were not so much mentors and confidants, molding the malleable minds of youth into receptacles for knowledge and engines of analytical thought, as they were herders, attentive sheep-dogs that rounded up the young'uns and kept them under control with colored paper and white glue. This observation by no means demeans the job of elementary school teachers in any way; with an entire battalion of hyperactive, incoherent children bouncing into one another like paste-eating billiard balls...
...really picture it," Herbie Crichlow says, "I shouldn't be here." No kidding. A brash English import who says he's the "black sheep" of Sweden's low-key pop scene, Crichlow moved to Stockholm for one thing, or more accurately, one woman. The short story: boy meets girl on a Barbados beach, boy falls for girl, girl goes home, boy follows, freezes, acclimatizes, marries...
...skeptics are still there; one producer says Crichlow is "done." But the "black sheep" of Swedish pop is sure he'll come up with the Golden Fleece. "I've made it this far for this long," he says...
...fiebre aftosa in Spain, Maul-und-Klauenseuche in Germany and mundog klovsyge in Denmark. It is harmless to humans and does not even kill most infected animals. Yet foot-and-mouth disease was arousing anxiety throughout the world last week, and the virus that causes the ailment in pigs, sheep and cattle was closing borders, destroying livelihoods and bringing to a standstill much of the world's trade in beef, pork and lamb...
...Authorities are slaughtering and then incinerating infected animals and ones suspected to have been in contact. In Britain, 120,000 animals have been destroyed, and there are plans to burn at least 50,000 more. French authorities have decided to burn some 50,000 sheep that have either been in contact with British animals or have been imported...