Halting ‘deer AIDS’
State acts to keep out fatal disease
As if there isn’t enough to worry about already, there’s Chronic Wasting Disease. (Terrible name.) It’s more like Mad Cow than AIDS, and appears to be carried by prions like Mad Cow. So far, it’s known only in deer. This story says that it’s unlikely to jump to humans, but CNN reported yesterday that three outdoorsmen in Wisconsin (where CWD has lately been found) are suspected to have died of the disease in the 1990s. The big fear would be of the disease jumping to cattle.
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Russian priests to talk of religion, spirituality
Two Russian Orthodox Catholic priests will make a presentation, ”Russian Spirituality: Then and Now,” Tuesday at Faith Presbyterian Church.
This beat out the original title, “Russian Orthodox Priests: We’re Allowed to Get Married, So You Can Trust Us With Your Children”.
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Rapes of teenagers increasing in state
Alabama ranks fourth in nation in number of youths who say they were forced to have sex
Dear God… I doubt that the rate is actually increasing; what’s is increasing is more probably the report rate.
A survey done by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta says 10.4 percent of young people in Alabama say they have been forced to have sex, compared to the national average of 7.7 percent. South Carolina, New Jersey and Mississippi had the highest rates.
I wonder what New Jersey is doing in there… I assume that by “young people” they actually mean young women. Ten percent! That’s sickening. How does this happen in a theoretically civilized society?
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The Nando Times: Turkey’s nationalists challenge EU reforms
The Nationalists are actually the largest party in parliament, though short of majority status. And they aren’t happy about the abolition of the death penalty or (in particular, I expect) the increase in Kurdish-language rights. Both came in as part of a package to try to get into the EU, but personally I don’t think Turkey will get in anyway. If they did, and the Nationalists took over and set the clock back, would the EU kick Turkey out?
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Small Bomb Explodes in Lebanon Camp
I’ve got a question… If this is a “refugee camp”, why is there a grocery store for this bomb to go off outside of? I’m guessing this is another “camp” that’s really a town, like Jenin. At any event, I’m guessing this is internecine warfare among the Palestinians.
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ArabNews: Kingdom, Iran oppose attack
I don’t know if hanging out with Iran’s government makes the Saudis look bad, or if hanging with the Sauds makes Iran look bad. Or if both are so irredeemably awful that it doesn’t matter.
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