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High Plains Dust

For many people who lived through the 1930's, that decade's most potent symbol was the Dust Bowl. No one forgets a legendary drought or dust storms of biblical proportion. Now in the heart of the American West, people are harking back to what their parents or grandparents saw in the 30's because they're seeing a version of it themselves today.

Industry still failing on environment

PARIS - Despite the best efforts of a minority of firms, world industry as a whole is failing to pull its weight on protecting the environment, a United Nations report concluded yesterday.

Abandoned mines said gigantic environment problem

TORONTO - The environmental and social costs of closing and rehabilitating old and abandoned mines around the world are likely in the trillions of dollars, and far beyond the capability of mining companies alone to deal with, Sir Robert Wilson, chairman of London-based metals giant Rio Tinto Plc said this week.

Japan gets another ""mad cow"" case

Health Ministry officials said Monday they have found a fourth case of mad cow disease in Japan. Officials said they had confirmed that a 6-year-old Holstein dairy cow on a farm in Hokkaido had tested positive for bovine spongiform encephalopathy. Three previous cases of the livestock disease were found in Japan from September through November 2001.

USDA mandates FMD-regions clean farm machine exports

WASHINGTON - All used farm equipment, including tractors, mowers and harvesters, imported into the United States from foot-and-mouth disease infected countries must be steam-cleaned before arriving at U.S. ports of entry, the Agriculture Department said yesterday.

S. Korea Shuts Two-Thirds of Livestock Markets to Halt Disease

Seoul - South Korea has shut two-thirds of 106 livestock markets nationwide to try to contain an outbreak foot-and-mouth disease discovered last week, an agricultural ministry official said. The government has since halted pork exports following discovery of the outbreak in areas south of Seoul.

An Anti-American Boycott Is Growing in the Arab World

CAIRO - Doughnuts may not be quite as American as, say, apple pie, but they come close enough to make Samir Nasier, a Saudi fast-food king, nervous. So nervous, in fact, that Mr. Nasier and his brothers are offering roughly $300,000 to anyone who can prove that their House of Donuts chain has any connection to the United States.
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