Queen of daytime TV Oprah Winfrey meets her match in Nomvuyo Mzamane (Times Online) The targets of her ire have included the memoirist James Frey and the US president of the Hermès handbag company, whose staff didn’t let her into a Paris boutique after closing time. [News Source]

Fear is fallout from Missouri’s first deer with brain illness. States are refusing entry permits to people seeking to import deer from Missouri after a whitetail buck tested positive for chronic wasting disease in the state. [News Source]

U.S. Wants Greater Market Access To Japan (Manufacturing.net) Beef and automobiles are among the markets Japan should make more accessible to U.S. firms, a senior U.S. official said Wednesday. [News Source]

The almanac (UPI) By United Press International UPI Almanac for Thursday, March 18, 2010. [News Source]

Fear is fallout from Missouri’s first deer with brain illness (St. Louis Post-Dispatch) It was just one deer, but people are spooked. In late February, a single whitetail buck in central Missouri tested positive for chronic wasting disease, a contagious, fatal brain infection. It was the state's first-ever case, found in one animal among the state's estimated 1.4 million deer. [News Source]