self.document.write('<div style="margin : 0px; width : auto; height : auto; border : solid 0px; overflow : hidden; font-size : 1em; font-family : \'Arial\'; color : black; background : inherit;"> <div style="padding : 3px;" > <ul style="margin : 0px; padding-left : 15px"> <li style="margin-bottom : 4px;"> <div style=""> <a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/economist/full_print_edition/~3/iu0YolvBURs/story01.htm" target="_blank" style="font-weight : bold; font-size : 1em; color : inherit;" >American forces in the Philippines: Front-line vets</a> </div> <div style="margin : 2px 0px; font-size : inherit ; color : inherit;"> <p>Drawing lessons from a rare success <p>RUMBLING over unfriendly terrain the world over, Humvees form the backbone of America’s military transport. Lieutenant-Colonel Stephen Goldsmith has found they also make a good cattle corral. Park two Humvees at an angle, lead a cow into the gap and lash it to a bumper by its nose. Then climb on either bonnet and administer the necessary jabs. “I got tired of getting kicked all the time,” he says. <p>Lieut-Colonel Goldsmith, a veterinarian in the American army, has already worked with Afghan livestock. Now he tends to scrawny, tick-ridden cattle in Muslim-majority parts of Mindanao. Since March 2008, he has treated some 7,000 animals in villages where qualified vets are as rare as pukka roads. Proper care of livestock means fatter animals for market and more income for their owners. ... </div> <div style="font-size : 1em; color : inherit;"> <a href="http://economist.com" target="_blank" style="font-size : 1em; color : inherit;">economist.com</a> - 2010-01-28 17:53:57 GMT </div> </li> <li style="margin-bottom : 4px;"> <div style=""> <a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/economist/full_print_edition/~3/4llvdTqy17M/story01.htm" target="_blank" style="font-weight : bold; font-size : 1em; color : inherit;" >The Muslim Brothers\' new leader: Which way now?</a> </div> <div style="margin : 2px 0px; font-size : inherit ; color : inherit;"> <p>An influential movement sounds unusually hesitant <p>THE election of a new leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, one of the Arab world’s most influential movements, has aroused an oddly muted response, not just from the group’s critics but from fellow-travelling Islamists as well. Muhammad Badeea, a media-shy 66-year-old veterinarian, whose elevation to the post of the Brothers’ “supreme guide” was announced on January 16th, is the eighth leader of a movement founded in 1928, with millions of sympathisers across the Muslim world. Nowadays he and his cohorts face mounting challenges from without and within. <p>Seen by some as a wellspring of global Islamist extremism and by others as a moderate and modernising defender of Muslim identity, the Brotherhood has long carried influence far beyond the borders of Egypt, where it remains the strongest opposition party, despite sporadic persecution and an official ban imposed since 1954. ... </div> <div style="font-size : 1em; color : inherit;"> <a href="http://economist.com" target="_blank" style="font-size : 1em; color : inherit;">economist.com</a> - 2010-01-21 16:46:35 GMT </div> </li> <li style="margin-bottom : 4px;"> <div style=""> <a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/economist/full_print_edition/~3/UZRlwn8_lMw/story01.htm" target="_blank" style="font-weight : bold; font-size : 1em; color : inherit;" >Pets in the recession : Howls for help</a> </div> <div style="margin : 2px 0px; font-size : inherit ; color : inherit;"> <p>Hard times have left many pets homeless <p>EARLIER this month the head of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, a non-profit organisation, wrote to Goldman Sachs. Animal shelters, the letter said, are struggling to cope with a surge in the number of pets that have been abandoned because their owners have fallen on hard times. Maybe Goldman executives should give their big bonuses to the dogs? Sadly, it looks unlikely. <p>As the number of job losses and foreclosures has mounted over the past two years, some people have chosen to surrender their animals, unable to afford pet food let alone veterinary care. Many have brought their dogs and cats to shelters. Some have been less kind, chaining them to fences or locking them inside their foreclosed homes. One kitten was even left in a mailbox in Boston. ... </div> <div style="font-size : 1em; color : inherit;"> <a href="http://economist.com" target="_blank" style="font-size : 1em; color : inherit;">economist.com</a> - 2010-01-21 16:46:35 GMT </div> </li> <li style="margin-bottom : 4px;"> <div style=""> <a href="http://www.news.com.au/story/0%2C10117%2C26587009-401%2C00.html?from=public_rss" target="_blank" style="font-weight : bold; font-size : 1em; color : inherit;" >Botched castration reveals vet as a fraud</a> </div> <div style="margin : 2px 0px; font-size : inherit ; color : inherit;"> A BRITISH "doctor" and "veterinarian" who had supposedly graduated from Perth\'s Murdoch University has been jailed after he was found to have bought his academic qualifications from a New Zealand website. </div> <div style="font-size : 1em; color : inherit;"> <a href="http://news.com.au" target="_blank" style="font-size : 1em; color : inherit;">news.com.au</a> - 2010-01-13 16:25:06 GMT </div> </li> <li style="margin-bottom : 4px;"> <div style=""> <a href="http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/~r/usatoday-NewsTopStories/~3/J8ojbG3I4AM/2009-11-26-dolittler-pet-gifts_N.htm" target="_blank" style="font-weight : bold; font-size : 1em; color : inherit;" >Black Friday big for retail vet care, pet gift-giving</a> </div> <div style="margin : 2px 0px; font-size : inherit ; color : inherit;"> Whether you realize it or not, veterinary medicine is retail fare. Why else would we vets spend oodles on foot-trafficked real ... </div> <div style="font-size : 1em; color : inherit;"> <a href="http://usatoday.com" target="_blank" style="font-size : 1em; color : inherit;">usatoday.com</a> - 2009-11-26 23:29:22 GMT </div> </li> <li style="margin-bottom : 4px;"> <div style=""> <a href="http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/~r/usatoday-NewsTopStories/~3/iCa-3ravhnA/2009-11-19-dolittler-specialized-medicine_N.htm" target="_blank" style="font-weight : bold; font-size : 1em; color : inherit;" >Specialized veterinary care: At what point? And at what price?</a> </div> <div style="margin : 2px 0px; font-size : inherit ; color : inherit;"> Over the past 10 years veterinary medicine has witnessed an explosion in the number of veterinarians heading into three- and ... </div> <div style="font-size : 1em; color : inherit;"> <a href="http://usatoday.com" target="_blank" style="font-size : 1em; color : inherit;">usatoday.com</a> - 2009-11-20 09:34:34 GMT </div> </li> <li style="margin-bottom : 4px;"> <div style=""> <a href="http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/article/20091109/NEWS01/311090007/1001/RSS" target="_blank" style="font-weight : bold; font-size : 1em; color : inherit;" >Kidnapping charge dropped against MSU veterinarian</a> </div> <div style="margin : 2px 0px; font-size : inherit ; color : inherit;"> EAST LANSING - A 35-year-old Michigan State University veterinarian, who had sex with a 13-year-old girl he met through an Internet dating site, will stand trial on criminal sexual conduct charges, but will not face a kidnapping charge, a judge ruled today. </div> <div style="font-size : 1em; color : inherit;"> <a href="http://lansingstatejournal.com" target="_blank" style="font-size : 1em; color : inherit;">lansingstatejournal.com</a> - 2009-11-09 23:32:51 GMT </div> </li> <li style="margin-bottom : 4px;"> <div style=""> <a href="http://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2009/nov/04/cat-had-swine-flu-official-says/" target="_blank" style="font-weight : bold; font-size : 1em; color : inherit;" >Cat had swine flu, official says</a> </div> <div style="margin : 2px 0px; font-size : inherit ; color : inherit;"> A 13-year-old Iowa cat has been infected with swine flu, veterinary and federal officials said Wednesday in what is believed to be the first case of the H1N1 virus in a feline in the United States. </div> <div style="font-size : 1em; color : inherit;"> <a href="http://arkansasonline.com" target="_blank" style="font-size : 1em; color : inherit;">arkansasonline.com</a> - 2009-11-04 23:54:44 GMT </div> </li> <li style="margin-bottom : 4px;"> <div style=""> <a href="http://www.justnews.com/health/21521337/detail.html" target="_blank" style="font-weight : bold; font-size : 1em; color : inherit;" >Officials: Swine Flu Confirmed In Iowa Cat</a> </div> <div style="margin : 2px 0px; font-size : inherit ; color : inherit;"> The swine flu virus has been confirmed in a cat treated at the Iowa State University College of Veterinary Medicine. </div> <div style="font-size : 1em; color : inherit;"> <a href="http://local10.com" target="_blank" style="font-size : 1em; color : inherit;">local10.com</a> - 2009-11-04 18:37:26 GMT </div> </li> <li style="margin-bottom : 4px;"> <div style=""> <a href="http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/article/20091030/NEWS06/310300013/1001/RSS" target="_blank" style="font-weight : bold; font-size : 1em; color : inherit;" >MSU proposes to cut programs and degrees due to lack of funds</a> </div> <div style="margin : 2px 0px; font-size : inherit ; color : inherit;"> EAST LANSING - Michigan State University\'s administration has proposed closing the Department of Geological Science and the Department of Communicative Sciences and Disorders. In addition, it wants to end more than a dozen degree programs, among them the classics, veterinary technology, retailing and American studies. Continued declines in state funding has prompted MSU to reassess its programs. "We could cure everything by just raising tuition 10 percent," said MSU Trustee George Perles. "We don\'t want to do that." The proposed cuts must still go through the university\'s academic governance system and receive final approval from either MSU Provost Kim Wilcox or the Board of Trustees. </div> <div style="font-size : 1em; color : inherit;"> <a href="http://lansingstatejournal.com" target="_blank" style="font-size : 1em; color : inherit;">lansingstatejournal.com</a> - 2009-10-30 16:34:06 GMT </div> </li> </ul> </div> </div>');