Dueling Fools: Borders Bull
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The book retailing superstore has new chapters worth telling.
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The US border could open up to live Canadian cattle under 30 months of age within a couple of months, thanks to a new classification system for countries that are considered &quot;minimal risk regions&quot; for mad cow disease.
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TORONTO Dan Frankian peered over a city fence and saw his target. There, plump and oblivious, were the intruders. The freeloaders had simply moved in from the country, gorged themselves on the abundance of the city and left a nasty trail wherever they went. They were Canada geese.
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LEDUC, Alberta -- After losing money for 18 months because of mad cow restrictions, Ed Wedman is advertising for hunters willing to pay $500 ($420 in US dollars) to shoot a Holstein steer and take the meat.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C.  - The Bush administration must  restore U.S. beef exports to Japan and South Korea before it  opens the border to Canadian cattle, the National Cattlemen's  Beef Association said, shifting away from calling on the United  States to set a good example on beef trade for nations dealing  with mad cow disease.
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Tycho:   The foe revealed, Armadeaddon is now almost complete.  Monday will see the promised epilogue, so at this point you have very nearly survived the ordeal.  We have endeavored these past weeks to reward the true "enthusiast," that man or woman who, brow heavy, has faced such cruel abuse at our hand for the last seven years.  It is apparently our policy to honor such dedication one every decade.    Since it was announced a couple days ago, the revelation that MS would be actively courting the hardcore boardgame player is something I've thought about almost constantly.  It may be that you weren't aware there was such a thing as a hardcore player of boardgames if your last experience with the context was playing Sorry! with your sister when you were eight.  Things have progressed.   There's a million experiences in this space I could use to lure you in, but one company in particular - Days of Wonder has already decided to make electronic variants of their tabletop crack, so they occupy a twilight space between the worlds.  I hope they see an opportunity to take their (already completed!) games over to the 360, or that Microsoft offers them a locked case containing an unspecified amount of untraceable U.S. Currency, because I'd love to see this prescient move by MS turn into a new era.   Days of Wonder makes a game called Shadows Over Camelot that could quickly become a dangerous obsession, obscuring biological realities with a single-minded focus on grails.  Well, grail I guess.  There's just the one.    But it's a completely cooperative boardgame, so every player is working toward the same goals - fighting back invasions, questing, all of it.  Except there might be a traitor in the group, determined by a hidden draw, who tries to derail the effort.  He's not always there, but the potentiality of that nefarious force can create unbelievable social tension.    The gaming table's fixed coordinate in space is its asset and its obstacle - managing space and time is actually the primary challenge of any gaming group, as opposed to banishing necromancers, though that also ranks up there.  Boardgames are so rich in design that, when one of these gets dropped in front of them on Live, I think many gamers will be shocked at their sophistication.    My thumbs hurt.  (CW)TB out.
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I just started watching The Dog Whisperer on the National Geographic Channel a few weeks ago, and I'm hooked. I really like the way the star, Cesar Millan, explains stuff. He shoots straight, with love. You can't be politically correct and get a dog to behave.  And he never misleads the owners, they have to change in order for the dog to change. Dogs are very simple, they can't just be your friend. The dog's world is hierarchic. Someone is the boss. If you're not the boss, he or she is. Every pack has a leader. Watching the show I wish I had a dog so I could try out his ideas. I also wish news shows were like this, get to the real story, find a solution to the problem.  Maybe he'll run for Governor of California. I'd vote for him.  Sue Polinsky loves the Dog Whisperer too.
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The U.S. government has a blunt message for landowners along the Mexico border: Let us on your land or we'll sue. It's the latest battle over a border fence. Eloisa Tamez isn't about to give up land in her family since 1767. "I am not backing down," she told CNN.
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It's "Animal Planet" in the presidential advertising wars. In heavily symbolic television spots, President Bush's campaign uses prowling wolves to suggest that the country under Sen. John Kerry would be vulnerable to terrorists. The Democratic Party claims the Republican incumbent is a head-in-the-sand ostrich while his opponent is as strong as an eagle.
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The U.S. green-lights the use of products derived from cloned animals while testing continues, but the nation's biggest milk producer opposes it. Plus: Sanyo earnings probe... Illinois Senate passes stem cell bill... and more.
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Britain last won the Davis Cup in 1936. You can account for the paucity of confidence in the British team last weekend when you realise their last victory predates rationing.
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The New York Times has recently run a piece pondering the renowned nation of Canada, and whether it has fallen from its once lofty heights of international greatness.    "A country is not just a health system."  This is the sentiment of one of a few Canadian authors recently lamenting the decline of Canadian engagement around the world.  The question then becomes: what makes a nation great?  Why would Canadians resent the place of  their placid and peaceful country?  And, what does this say about the roles taken on by other influential nations around the world?
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You might be sleeping on a bull market.
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ALTAR VALLEY, Ariz  - U.S. Border Patrol agent Galen Huffman leans over the saddle to look at faint tracks in a cattle trail leading up from the Mexico border.
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It's a familiar scene at any rodeo: A bull bucks and spins, eventually flinging a cowboy into the air and onto the dirt. On television replays, it takes on a whole new dimension: Viewers see an animated bar chart that details the acceleration and deceleration of the animal. It ultimately stops on a number that represents the power of a particular bull.
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Can the king of chip ka-ching beat back its uppity rival? Fools face off.
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WASHINGTON _ Not since the Pig War of 1859 had tensions run as high along the U.S.-Canada border.  In 1994, the Canadian government announced a $1,500 fee on U.S.