S. KOREA CONSIDERS PHASED REOPENING OF U.S. BEEF IMPORTS (Asia Pulse via Yahoo!7 Finance) Livestock   South Korea is considering an option of fully reopening U.S. beef imports through a step-by-step process, possibly including shipments of previously unaccepted parts including bones, informed sources said Friday. [News Source]

S. Korea Considers Phased Reopening Of U.S. Beef Imports (Asia Pulse via Yahoo!7 News) South Korea is considering an option of fully reopening U.S. beef imports through a step-by-step process, possibly including shipments of previously unaccepted parts including bones, informed sources said Friday. [News Source]

Opening border heightens disease risk to U.S. cattle, consumers (AG Weekly) USDA’s mandate is to prevent BSE from entering the United States, but the first thing the agency said (when announcing) this rule is designed to normalize cattle trade with Canada. [News Source]

Loaves and fishes. Besides religious objections, there are many deep-seated reasons why people feel squeamish (or worse) about cloning, from questions about individual identity to visions of mad scientists tinkering with nature. [News Source]

‘Cloned food’ still faces hurdles. Last week's announcement by the Food and Drug Administration declared that it was safe to consume dairy and meat products from cloned animals, and approved the sale of such food. [News Source]

Physician, don’t heal thyself (winnipegsun.com) Do doctors make the worst patients? [News Source]

HEAL THYSELF (Asbury Park Press) At 8:30 a.m. on Sept. 11, 2001, Robert Klitzman's sister, Karen, called her best friend from her office on the 105th floor of the World Trade Center. No one ever heard from her again. Grief-stricken, Klitzman became depressed, but he didn't realize it for a while. He is a psychiatrist. He couldn't become mentally ill, could he? [News Source]

Elk get collars, contraception (Casper Star-Tribune) ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK, Colo. -- A cow elk lay on her side in a meadow ringed by towering, snowy peaks on Friday, rocking back and forth before struggling to her feet. [News Source]

More News (Daily Bulletin) Remember Blinky, the three-eyed fish that Bart Simpson caught in Springfield's polluted waters? The orange mutant was a result of nuclear waste being haphazardly dumped, a silly reminder that Mother Nature shouldn't be messed with. [News Source]