These ‘Voices’ fail to communicate (Orlando Sentinel) Mad Cow's production of one-act plays is perplexing and excells only when the actors do. The voices are distinctly personal in American Voices, Mad Cow Theatre's current collection by three distinctly American writers. [News Source]

Japan finds no problems at U.S. meat-packing plants (Kyodo via Yahoo! Asia News) _ Japanese inspectors found no problems at U.S. meat-packing plants in May when they checked whether the plants were processing beef safely for export to Japan in compliance with a bilateral agreement, the government said Wednesday. [News Source]