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WASHINGTON (AP) — The government is
setting more stringent standards for when it will
announce that an initial screening test for mad
cow disease has yielded a suspicious result, the
Agriculture Department said Wednesday.
The department is now requiring additional pre
liminary test results before the public is informed. A
leader of the beef industry hailed the new procedure,
while a consumer advocate expressed skepticism.
The change comes after two cases in which
the department announced that screening tests
could not rule out that animals had the fatal
brain-wasting disease. More exacting tests later
showed the cattle were free of mad cow.
The new system, which took effect Wednesday,
uses the screening tests as they were designed to
be used — with analysis of three samples of
tissue, said Jim Rogers, a spokesman for the
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.
A carcass is considered suspicious if an initial
sample indicates the possible presence of the mis
shapen protein blamed for mad cow, also known
as bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or BSE.
Under the new procedure, the results of two
more samples would then be examined, Rogers
said. If either additional sample yielded incon
clusive results, the findings would be announced
publicly and definitive tests would be conducted
at the department’s National Veterinary Services
Laboratories in Ames, Iowa.
Under the screening system the department had
used since June, the public was informed when
the initial sample yielded inconclusive results,
even if the next two tests were both negative.
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hydraulic fracturing.”
Holditch said the Lucas
Gold Medal is the top award
given to petroleum engineers.
“We have to keep our focus
on achieving multiple outcomes
simultaneously,” Holditch said
of the petroleum engineer
ing department. “Our faculty
needs to be really good at both
teaching and research.”
Holditch, who has worked
for companies such as Shell Oil
Company and Schlumberger,
has done his recent research
while also serving as depart
ment head.
“Our department has always
been ranked as the best petro
leum engineering department,
and we plan to improve upon
our past success,” Holditch
said. “We are focusing our
research efforts in the depart
ment to develop an ‘industry
directed’ research effort. This
means that our faculty and
graduate students are develop
ing solutions for the problems
that are of most interest to the
oil and gas industry.”
Darla-Jean Weatherford,
communications specialist
for the petroleum engineering
department, said receiving an
award from the SPE is spe
cial, but receiving one from
AIME also, as Holditch will,
is prestigious.
Sue Kindred, board liaison
of SPE and awards program
manager, said the award will
be given to Holditch at the
Annual Technical Conference
and Exhibition in Dallas in
October 2005.
Holditch, who earned three
degrees at A&M, said “1 think
receiving the award is an
honor for me and for Texas
A&M University. Much of the
work that I have done over
the years has been in coop
eration with graduate students
and faculty members at Texas
A&M University.”
Gerardo Jimenez, a
senior petroleum engineer
ing major, said he believes
that Holditch receiving this
award can be an encourage
ment to current Aggies in
their pursuit of success.
“Dr. Holditch’s achieve
ments in industry research
and his long career as a stu
dent at A&M can help moti
vate us the in petroleum engi
neering department because
he has been a solid profes
sional role model,” Jimenez
said. “He is most deserving
of this award, and it is a privi
lege to be his student.”
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northwest of Abilene.
Everyone escaped except Colton Blain
Dentler, 6, and his sister Ryann, who was res
cued by Russell Dentler and revived by Amy
Dentler, Patsy Teague told the Reporter-News
at the time. But the family was unable to find
Colton, Teague has said, adding that the home
burned in seven minutes.
The five surviving children are “being
taken care of,” Moore said, declining to com
ment further.
The grand jury returned 28 indictments,
seven on each person. Each has been charged
with one count of capital murder, one count of
second-degree attempted murder, one count of
third-degree possession and transport of anhy
drous ammonia, and four counts of child endan-
germent, a state-jail felony, Moore said.
Anhydrous ammonia is used in making meth-
amphetamine.
The four were jailed in Jones County, each in
lieu of $177,500 bond.
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The main reason for soar
ing prices nowadays is that
global demand has risen faster
than producers had expected,
leaving the market with very
little cushion in the event of
an unexpected supply problem,
terror-related or otherwise.
PFC Energy, a Washington-
based consulting firm, estimates
that total global production will
average 82.1 million barrels a
day in 2004, or just 100,000 bar
rels a day above consumption.
“OPEC is putting out
a lot of oil, but the market
is absorbing it,” said Jamal
Qureshi, an oil market analyst
at PFC Energy.
On Tuesday, US. light crude
for September delivery to a
closing price of $44.15 — an
all-time high on the New York
Mercantile Exchange. Oil
prices also hit new heights in
London on Tuesday, closing
at $40.64 on the International
Petroleum Exchange.
Recent geopolitical uncer
tainty in countries such as
Russia and Iraq has made
energy traders edgy, raising
fears that the supply-demand
balance could tilt further in the
wrong direction.
In Russia, the concern is
over the fate of troubled oil
giant Yukos, which produces 2
percent of the world’s oil but is
under pressure from the gov
ernment to come up with bil
lions of dollars in back taxes.
Fears of an immediate drop
in output abated Wednesday,
sending global oil prices
lower, after Yukos said Russian
authorities will allow the com
pany to use its bank accounts
to “continue financing produc
tion activities.”
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