Racing hearts (Salon.com) When my motorcycle-racing boyfriend proposed on my 40th birthday, I couldn't tell if it was a joke or a dare. Then I risked all for a life at the track. [News Source]

PlayStation’s serious side: Fighting disease (Financial Express) Kids aiming to persuade their parents to buy the PlayStation 3 have some new ammunition -- donating their PS3's down time to researchers could help cure Alzheimer's, Parkinson's or mad cow disease. [News Source]

BSE likely came from feed (Iowa Farmer) OTTAWA (AP) -- An Alberta, Canada, dairy cow that was diagnosed last month with BSE (mad-cow disease) probably contracted the disease from contaminated feed, federal regulators said. [News Source]

Travels With Goats, and Their Humans (New York Times) Genetic mixing in goats, squid sending hidden messages, how deer spread disease and more. [News Source]

New case of mad cow disease in France (AFP via Yahoo! News) A nine-year-old cow in eastern France has tested positive for mad cow disease, the sixth case detected in the country this year, officials have said. [News Source]

Genesis Bioventures Announces Agreement to Manufacture Mad Cow Disease Rapid Assay Test Kits (PrimeZone via Yahoo! Finance) Genesis Bioventures, Inc. announced today that Prion Developmental Laboratories , its minority owned subsidiary company, entered into a contract manufacturing agreement with InBios International, Inc. , a leading biotechnology company in Seattle, Washington, to manufacture PDL's Mad Cow Disease and other TSE Rapid Diagnostic Tests. [News Source]

‘Boston Legal’ bends TV laws (Detroit News) "Cue the music," said the affable mad-cow-deranged legal eagle Denny Crane in the opening of a recent episode of "Boston Legal." But to whom is he talking -- the other zany lawyers at Crane, Poole & Schmidt? [News Source]

In the Jungles of Brooklyn, Nothing Can Stop Them (New York Times) I spent four years in Africa, but I didn?t really understand the law of the jungle until I moved to Brooklyn. [News Source]