Wasting disease test, birth control to be tried on Colorado elk (Greeley Tribune) ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK (AP) - Some elk in Rocky Mountain National Park will be tested for chronic wasting disease and given birth control starting next month to see how well the two procedures work. [News Source]

Canadian food inspection agency confirms BSE in 13-year-old animal (High Plains Journal) OTTAWA (AP)--Canada confirmed a new case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy on Dec. 18, the country's 11th case since the disease was first discovered in 2003. [News Source]

Birth control to be tried on Colorado elk (Vail Daily) ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK, Colorado - Some elk in Rocky Mountain National Park will be tested for chronic wasting disease and given birth control starting next month to see how well the two procedures work. [News Source]

Dirt Cheap Dream Stocks (The Motley Fool) Who says value investing can't be glamorous? [News Source]

The bests and worsts . . . in fits and spurts (Orlando Sentinel) Here we go again, columnists of every stripe digging into our recent pasts to come up with best and worst lists. It's who we are. [News Source]

The Year in Review: British politics (Independent) G ordon Brown was in the doldrums in January. He is again now. As a wildly oscillating political year opened with Tony Blair still Prime Minister, opinion polls suggested that Labour would be even more unpopular if Brown took over. In the summer, during Brown's extraordinary honeymoon, those polls appeared to be comically off-beam. By the end of the year, they seemed to be prophetic. [News Source]

Auction yards fight Canadian border cattle rule (Rapid City Journal) Five South Dakota auction yards recently hosted fundraisers that generated more than $50,000 to support a legal battle to stop older Canadian cattle from coming into the United States. [News Source]