How France hid its own mad cow disease epidemic (Daily Mail) The scale of France's mad cow disease epidemic has been laid bare in a report from scientists. The revelation that BSE was rife in France in the early 1990s comes a decade after its illegal ban on British beef. [News Source]

Mad-cow case likely originated with feed, agency says (The Globe and Mail) Canada has seen 14 cases of BSE since 2003, the most recent in Alberta in August [News Source]

Customer Service (Brandon Sun) VANCOUVER, B.C. - Canada's thirteenth case of mad cow disease was probably the result of contaminated commercial feed, says a report by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency. [News Source]

donga.com[English donga] (donga.com) Police took into custody yesterday five leaders of anti-U.S. beef protests who had slipped away late last month after hiding for months in Seoul’s Jogye Temple. [News Source]

Could Database Software Help Cure Alzheimer’s and Save the Earth? (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance) Just three months after Microsoft Corp. released its data management and business intelligence platform, Microsoft SQL Server 2008, several large customers are using the database software to scale new heights in data warehousing and transaction processing. [News Source]

Yes, we had mad cow disease too, France confesses (Evening Standard) FRENCH scientists issued a damning report today finally admitting the true scale of their country's mad cow disease epidemic. The confession that BSE was rife in France in the early Nineties comes a decade after it banned British beef. [News Source]

Daily thoughts and ideas for negotiating the last days of George W. Bush’s presidency (Colorado Springs Independent) Admit it: You'll secretly miss him. Well, at least if you're among that very special portion of the population who still approves of George W. Bush's governance, even during this eighth year of America's most harrowing reality show. [News Source]