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I don’t know about the rest of you out there, but I’m suffering from what Julia Child called “Fear of Food.” She was referring to Americans’ avoidance of butter and all the other ingredients that make French food so good to eat, but it’s more serious than that.

I?m old enough to have seen many food fads come and go, most of them sincerely endorsed by doctors, who filled their pockets with money made by selling us books. First you were supposed to eat mostly protein, then you were supposed to eat mostly carbohydrates, now you are supposed to eat mostly protein again.
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An 11 month-old baby girl in Britain is suffering from the human form of Mad Cow Disease (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy Disease or BSE) which she caught while in her mother?s womb. Her mother died from the disease seven months after giving birth.

A 14 year old girl in northern England recently died from BSE. Her family allowed TV cameras to broadcast the last days of her life, as a warning to others. Her mother said she felt guilty since she allowed her daughter to eat hamburgers several times a week. The girl was diagnosed with the disease two years ago. “It was as though she went to bed one person and got up a completely different person,” her mother said on Channel Four television.
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Florida Sun Sentinel – A cross section of civil rights and legal groups from the NAACP to the National Lawyers Association is preparing to file suits alleging massive voting fraud and intimidation in Florida. They claim that there is evidence of systematic obstruction of the voting rights of black citizens across Florida in the recent Presidential election. Civil rights lawyers have been gathering evidence and plan to file lawsuits this week under the Voting Rights Act and other civil rights statutes. There are dozens of reports of harassment and intimidation of black voters and improper denial of voting privileges to blacks in Miami, Tampa, Tallahassee, Hillsborough County, Volusia County and other areas of Florida.read more

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UPI, AP, NYT – Monsoon rains inundated the island of Sumatra Monday, causing landslides that swept more than 100 people into raging rivers and death. The Jakarta Post described the flooding as the worst since 1953. “We are looking for survivors, but we fear there will be only corpses,” said one volunteer.
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