In the 1990s, he chaired the inquiry into BSE, or Mad Cow Disease.
BSE, or mad-cow disease, no longer posed a problem, though Germany disagreed.
California-based HPV Technologies recently demonstrated a "magnetic acoustic device" or MAD that can broadcast a targeted beam of sound for a more than mile.
There's been a renewed warning in Britain that meat infected with BSE, or mad cow disease, could still be getting into the food chain.
In the Cold War the nuclear-missile standoff between the U.S. and USSR led to gargantuan stockpiles of another sort under a security doctrine known as Mutually Assured Destruction, or MAD.
Whether Holmes was bad or mad when he allegedly caused so much misery to so many people will not get resolved by a technique beloved by Hollywood movie directors but not by scientists.
One unexpected revelation was that France had offered to consider allowing beef from Scotland to be imported again where grass-fed herds could be shown never to had any contact with BSE or mad cow disease.
His enjoyable and informative canter through three millennia of intellectual and religious history highlights the many ways, ingenious, beautiful, wrongheaded or mad, in which humans have tried to define paradise, seek it or, latterly, create it.
The decision, confirmed by a ministry press official in Brasilia, follows Egypt's ban of beef on Monday from Parana state, where a cow that died two years ago had developed atypical bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), or mad cow disease.
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The ministry would also like to oversee a wider distribution of genes from the small percentage of British rams that are resistant to scrapie, a sheep disease similar to bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or mad-cow disease as it is more commonly known.
Now if we could just figure out exactly what it is that makes some folks mad as hell or at least mad enough to camp on the sidewalk for weeks at a time.
Whether it's a small love story or a mad man with an ax, there are big scares going into this summer's blockbusters.
There are one or two delegates who seem to be willing to delve a bit deeper, but they are generally regarded as either mad or bad.
Once ashore, the shells of buildings reminded me of ancient Greece, Rome or Petra re-conceived by the creators of Mad Max or Akira.
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"He always seemed mad or kind of distant, " Arrington wrote.
Camus preferred to ask how a mad (or at least a very bizarre) man might choose to judge a court.
"If I'd gone against the medical experts, people would have thought I was mad - or, worse in my position - trying to do the dirty on one of the clubs, " he told French newspaper L'Equipe.
In the heyday of the East India Company, the single biggest cause of death of the company's employees was not mad dogs or scorpions, but the familiar drug of alcohol (aggravated by bad diet and lack of exercise).
In this model, Netflix, circa 2012, is AMC before Mad Men, or HBO before The Sopranos.
Consumers can only get mad--or blame their Internet service provider.
With every episode of every season of TV's hottest series, like Game of Thrones, Downton Abbey, Dexter, Girls, Spartacus and Duck Dynasty, plus full, current or most recent seasons of Mad Men, Revolution, The Walking Dead, Touch, Chicago Fire, Psych, Parenthood and The Americans, the first Xfinity Watchathon Week will offer a massive collection of content from the best networks never before available for free in one place.
It seems to me that you can now be half as mad at the old or new me.
But whether Palmer has the equivalent of an over-subscribed Kickstarter on his hands or not, his project, mad as it seems, has captured the popular imagination.
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We'll see if the critics and subscribers put it on a par with shows like Game of Thrones, Mad Men, Dexter or Breaking Bad, and how viewers react to Netflix's strategy of making all the episodes available at once.
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