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- USDA's Knight Battles NAIS Misunderstandings Required for Trade? Maybe. Needed for Disease Control? Yes. "Our industry is about to face confluence of economic conditions and policies that, taken separately, would be sobering. The fact that they will happen simultaneously, over a very short period of time, is almost...
- Research articles 2008-09-01
- Four Austrians suffer tick-borne encephalitis from cheese: report
- VIENNA AFP — Four people recently fell ill with tick-borne encephalitis TBE in western Austria after eating homemade goats' cheese, medical experts reported Thursday. A shepherd in western Vorarlberg province, who had checked into hospital in July with flu-like symptoms, was found to have the illness following a blood...
- Research articles 2008-08-28
- Palestinian herders hard-hit by drought, Israeli restrictions
- ISFEY FOQA, West Bank AFP — Hard-hit by a severe three-year drought and tough restrictions on movement imposed by Israel, Palestinian shepherds are facing what some elders call their worst crisis in living memory. "All we have left is hope," says Musa Abdullah Awad, a wizened 49-year-old herder as...
- Research articles 2008-08-26
- Goats sacrificed to prop up Indian govt: report
- NEW DELHI AFP — Allies of India's ruling Congress party performed a massive goat sacrifice for the "well-being and stability" of the government to time with a confidence vote last week, a report said Thursday. The regional Samajwadi party, which propped up the government after its left allies withdrew...
- Research articles 2008-07-31
- Book review: "Farewell, My Subaru"
- Title: "Farewell, My Subaru" Author: Doug Fine Publisher: Villard Pages: 211 Price: $24 In a nutshell: Journalist Doug Fine has paved the way for a new career as a comedian with this entertaining yet informative book on going green in...
- Research articles 2008-06-01
- Author bids his Subaru sayonara
- When Doug Fine isn't chasing wily coyotes away from the chicken coop, keeping his goats out of the vegetable garden or just breathing a sigh of relief that he survived the latest hailstorm or flash flood, he's kicking back and feeling good about life. "It's kind...
- Research articles 2008-03-25
- Indian vet brings 'healing touch' to south Lebanon
- HELTA, Lebanon, Feb 18, 2008 AFP — The ground is peppered with pellets of goat dung and the stench of manure fills the air as an Indian vet with a UN peacekeeping force tends to sick animals in south Lebanon. Lieutenant Colonel Satvir Singh, who goes to work in...
- Research articles 2008-02-18
- Snow threatens Kashmir's pashmina goats
- SRINAGAR, India AFP — Some 150,000 rare Himalayan goats whose wool is used to make Indian Kashmir's famed pashmina shawls are at risk of dying due to heavy snow blanketing the region, officials warned on Wednesday. The goats' pastures, spread over the mountains of the Changthang area of the...
- Research articles 2008-02-06
- Twenty more Bulgarians found infected with rare animal disease
- SOFIA AFP — Twenty people have been found infected with brucellosis in southern Bulgaria after four others fell ill with the rare animal disease from contact with sick goats and sheep, a veterinary officer said Wednesday. Earlier this month 121 people in Harmanli were tested for brucellosis following an...
- Research articles 2007-09-26
- Do Bizarre Interview Questions Serve a Purpose?
- Do Bizarre Interview Questions Serve a Purpose?Room for mockery, no?And I'll bet anytime someone annoyed you, people would joke that he or she had really "gotten your goat." ;-)GoatInterviewing at Disney I was asked what kind of animal I would be if I was not a human (there's a big...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-14
- Number of Dutch farms touched by deadly sheep disease doubles
- THE HAGUE AFP — The number of Dutch farms infected with bluetongue, a disease that is deadly for sheep, has more than doubled in the past month, the authorities here said. "In total 434 farms are now infected," the agriculture minister said in a statement. On October 13 the number...
- Research articles 2006-11-16
- Dutch ruminant exports frozen due to bluetongue virus
- THE HAGUE AFP — The Netherlands suspended exports of live ruminants after a sheep farm in the south of the country was infected by so-called bluetongue virus, the Dutch agriculture ministry announced. "A farm in Kerkrade has been hit by catarrhal fever," the ministry said in a statement. ...
- Research articles 2006-08-17
- Heavy metal talker.(TECH WATCH)(2006 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation)(Brief article)
- HUMANITARIAN ROBOTICS was the theme of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, held in Orlando, Fla., which attracted more than a thousand leading roboticists from around the world. But the primary goat in building humanoid robots isn't to advance human mimicry, but to...
- Research articles 2006-08-01
- Some crying foul over ball
- You would think - and you would be wrong - in an age when thousands of satellites circle the earth like little blinking moons, when discoveries in medicine lead to new healing marvels every day, when the same great french fries can be obtained in 119 nations, that every possible...
- Research articles 2006-06-26
- British army lance corporal demoted for acting the goat
- NICOSIA AFP — William Billy Windsor, regimental goat of the Royal Welch Fusiliers, has been demoted for refusing to keep in step at a parade for Queen Elizabeth II's 80th birthday, officers said. The 1st Battalion lance corporal's lack of decorum landed him in hot water during the bash...
- Research articles 2006-06-24
- Lightning kills 70 goats, goatherd escapes
- SOFIA AFP — Seventy goats were killed when lightning struck near the central Bulgarian village of Sennik but the 38-year-old goatherd by their side escaped with his life, the state civil protection agency has said. The shepard was trying to gather his herd of 100 goats when lightning struck...
- Research articles 2006-06-16
- The goat foetus that's immune to BSE.
- Mar 28, 2006 (New Scientist - ABIX via COMTEX) -- US researchers believe they are on track to develop cattle immune to the so-called "mad- cow disease". Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy BSE attacks...
- Research articles 2006-03-28
- In Britain, charity goats are the Christmas rage
- LONDON AFP — The humble goat is stepping out of the nativity scene into the forefront of ethical Christmas gift-giving in Britain this year, with villagers in the poorest parts of Africa reaping the benefits. Just by going online, holiday shoppers can buy a goat for as little as...
- Research articles 2005-12-23
- Now that's a GTO!(Spy REPORT: DETROIT)(Pontiac GTO)(Brief Article)
- Pontiac is finally getting its musclecar right with this proper revival of the fabled GTO. While the current "Goat" comes from GM's Holden Down Under subsidiary, this one will be made in the good ol' U.S. of A. Note the strong, retro-look vertical nose, recessed round...
- Research articles 2005-11-01
- Japan researchers to be sealed in 'Mini-Earth' to plan for space life
- TOKYO AFP — Japanese researchers said they would seal themselves in a "mini-Earth" in an experiment in self-sufficiency to plan for future life in space. Two researchers will spend one week in the controlled ecosystem at Rokkasho in the northern prefecture of Aomori, growing plants such as rice, breeding...
- Research articles 2005-07-26
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