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Canada reports third mad cow case
BBC News – Jan 11, 2005
Its Food Inspection Agency reported the case in the western province of Alberta but said no part of the cow had entered the human or animal food chains. The cow, born after Canada tightened feed restrictions in 1997, was not linked to another instance of the disease announced earlier this month. The new case is Canada’s third home-grown case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE). The inspection agency is investigating what the animal, born in March 1998, may have been fed early in its life, and the source of the feed. The agency said feed produced before the new rules came into force was the most likely source of BSE infection. ‘Minimal risk’The US closed its border to Canadian beef in May 2003 after a cow in Alberta tested positive for BSE. But it recently announced it would resume conditional imports in March of live Canadian cattle aged under 30 months.
Asia Times Online :: Southeast Asia news and business from Indonesia,…
Asia Times Online – Jan 11, 2005
It’s the heart of the American people. ” After realizing that the opportunity for a spontaneous, instantaneous and magnificent US response from Day 1 had escaped him, Bush quickly press-ganged former presidents Bill Clinton and George Bush Sr into the worthy cause of persuading Americans to part with their money to help the distressed souls on the other side of the world. Face-to-face with radicalsYet the three presidents may face a harder sell to their people than to the global Muslim community if the buildup of home-grown Indonesian radicals outstrips the deployment of US troops on the ground in Aceh. With exquisite ill timing, CNN aired a photograph of an Indonesian man receiving a US aid package – while proudly sporting an Osama bin Laden T-shirt. But there are more ominous sources of anathema to Americans than T-shirts. The obsessively anti-American Laskar Mujahidin, who are equally obsessed with turning Indonesia into an Islamic state by implementing Islamic law, or Sharia, throughout the country, have set up camp at the Blang Bintang military airport in the Aceh capital, Banda Aceh. Laskar Mujahidin is the paramilitary wing of the hardline Indonesian Mujahidin Council (MMI), which has been linked several times to the regional terrorist group Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), itself linked to al-Qaeda and listed by the United Nations and the US State Department as a terrorist organization.
Rastogi-Kannan pair advances
Hindu – Jan 11, 2005
Prakash Amritraj (ranked 340), given a wildcard into the main draw, is the highest Indian seed at number three. Stephen Amritraj, Aditya Madkekar and Vishal Uppal are the other wildcards. Briton David Sherwood (289) is the top seeded, while Harsh Mankad (fifth seed) and Sipaeya (sixth seed) are home grown talents with a reputation to defend. The results (Indians unless specified): Doubles (first round): Andrei Stoliarov (Rus) & Norikazu Sugiyama (Jpn) bt Navdeep Singh & Varun Walia 6-3, 6-4; David Sherwood & Michael Ouvarov (Gbr) bt Simon Gruel (Ger) & Dekel Valtzer (Isr) 6-4, 2-6, 6-4; Lester Cook (USA) & Prakash Amritraj bt Shahab Hassan Nafez & Anoosha Shahgholi (Irn) 6-3, 6-0; Karan Rastogi & Kamala Kannan bt Sunil Kumar Sipaeya & Vijay Kannan 6-4, 6-2; Sanam Singh & Jeevan Nedunchezhian bt Konstantin Kravchuk (Rus) & Ashutosh Singh 4-6, 6-4, 7-5; Harsh Mankad & Ajay Ramaswami bt Divij Sharan & Vivek Shokeen 6-4, 6-2.
Splash out on fashionable investments
ic Newcastle.co.uk – Jan 11, 2005
The trick is knowing who and what is collectible. The sought-after designers going under the hammer at the moment include not just Halston, but Yves St Laurent, Cristobal Balenciaga, early Christian Dior and Chanel, Madeline Vionnet, Paul Pioret, Elsa Schiaparelli and Mariano Fortuny. Home-grown designers who are reaping rewards are the likes of Vivienne Westwood, Ossie Clarke, early Mary Quant and Biba. It’s not that long ago that British designers would have been dismissed on the must-have list. But it seems the fashion houses and museums have at last woken up to their importance. The items that never fail to attract buyers include seminal pieces by great designers at their peak. Christian Dior’s extravagant New Look collection of 1947 with its tightly-waisted, bouffant skirted, ankle length outfits which changed the face of fashion after six years of war, always does well at auction.