The Agriculture Department confirmed the first case of mad cow disease in America on December 23, 2003, in a cow born in Alberta, Canada, in April 1997, only four months before the United States and Canada began banning the use of brain and spinal cord tissue in cattle feed.

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Republicans are the first to sacrifice a sacred cow.

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Among his first purchases: a glass container holding a cow's rotting head, with maggots and flies, by a recent art school graduate named Damien Hirst.

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That, combined with the poor attendances for the first two days, means this match will be no cash-cow for the ECB - though they have the consolation of staging international cricket on an almost non-stop basis until 20 September.

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It looks like the fantasy countryside on a fruit crate, but this one comes alive with pungent smells--a scent of apple flowers in the spring dawn, scythed hay, piles of cow dung drying for fuel on top of the walls (my first thought: climbing cows?).

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Last week, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced that the first case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or BSE, had been found in a cow slaughtered in Washington state.

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This first-step work crafted a human-shaped ear that grew with cartilage from a cow, easier to obtain than human cartilage, especially the uniquely flexible kind that makes up ears.

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McDonald's (nyse: MCD - news - people) will post first-quarter and full-year earnings below Wall Street expectations, largely because mad-cow, a degenerative neurological disease that can infect humans who eat tainted beef, has scared Europeans away from the company's beef.

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The Scary Cow Festival for locally made films has grown to more than 250 filmmakers from 70 when it first started at the Castro three years ago, says founder Jager McConnell.

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