Twelve months ago the first case of foot-and-mouth in Wales was confirmed at an abattoir on Gaerwen on Anglesey.

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Britain recorded its 1, 000th case of foot-and-mouth disease.

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Observing the Leftist charge, led in this case by the frothing-at-the-mouth Israeli media, Biden moved swiftly.

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The product has grown by mostly word of mouth, and serves as a beautiful case study for other makers and inventors who have a product that serves a niche market.

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The big worry is predators, such as coyotes and nightmares such as foot-and-mouth disease (though the spotlight this summer was on Texan cattlemen in their battle against a case of mad-cow disease).

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Stewart Moffat, farming at Wigton in the Lake District, lost all his cattle and sheep on 4 April, the 1, 000th confirmed case in what the NFU is now terming "the world's worst outbreak of foot-and-mouth".

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Berkeley, a graduate degree in writing, and years of journalism experience, but, it turned out, my real gift, in this case, was pretending to be an inanimate object that, regardless of the fact that it had no hands or mouth, was able to talk to the world through its Facebook page.

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