Bovine 1 Malaysia (The Malaysian Insider) By Neville Spykerman Truth, Sir, is a cow, that will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull. — Samuel Johnson. AUG 31 — Really, what’s there to celebrate? Fifty-two years of simmering tensions? The ugly episode by the bull-headed protesters who showed no cow sense last Friday illustrates that 1 Malaysia is really just a load of bull. The organisers, who must have ... [News Source]

Report on U.S. beef import protests released. An estimated 932,000 people rallied on nearly 2,400 occasions in South Korea last year to protest their government's decision to resume imports of U.S. beef, which they thought could transmit the fatal mad cow disease to humans, an official report said Sunday. [News Source]

PeopleTalk: A conversation with Dr. Anthony Billittier (The Buffalo News) As commissioner of health for Erie County, Dr. Anthony Billittier, 47, serves 920,000 residents on issues of public health — from H1N1 to West Nile Virus. [News Source]

Ken Oxley: I won’t be a guinea pig! (icNewcastle - Sunday Sun) I WONDER which Government minister will be the first to have the new swine flu jab on live TV? [News Source]

Somalogic Gets $19.5M in Venture Capital For Launching Aptamer Protein Microarrays (GenomeWeb News) With $19.5 million in new financing fuel, Boulder, Colo.-based Somalogic is readying to launch its price-busting aptamer protein microarrays by the fourth quarter of this year, according to David Brunel, the company’s CEO. [News Source]

Rainy days not enough to stop local drought (Sherwood Park News) A week after Strathcona County declared a local state of drought emergency, the region was hit with a multi-day rainfall, delivering much-needed water for farmers. However, it wasn’t enough. Cliff Horricks manages a southern Strathcona County farm he bought from his parents in 1973.[...] [News Source]

Time to stop the mad cow disease (Sin Chew Jit Poh) PRIME MINISTER Najib Razak did the right thing by asking the police to take swift action against those trying to incite racial and religious hatred yesterday (28 Aug). [News Source]

Opera on Philharmonic’s 2010 schedule (Orlando Business Journal) The Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra will produce two concert operas in the 2009-2010 season, “Carmen” and “Porgy and Bess,” thanks to contributions from the Dr. P. Phillips Foundation, United Arts of Central Florida and individual donors. [News Source]

Rogue proteins spread prion diseases all by themselves (New Scientist) The finding should help end a dispute over whether a virus has to be involved as well [News Source]

Rogue proteins spread prion diseases all by themselves (New Scientist) The finding should help end a dispute over whether a virus has to be involved as well [News Source]