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March 27, 2001
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Army called out to fight disease
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CARLISLE, England -- In a sharp expansion of its battle to contain an epidemic of foot-and-mouth disease, Britain deployed its army Monday to bury the first of up to a half-million carcasses of infected and healthy sheep in a mass grave on a disused airfield near the northwestern city of Carlisle. |
High court to rule on executions of the retarded
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court announced Monday that it would decide whether the execution of mentally retarded murderers should be deemed unconstitutional as "cruel and unusual punishment" in violation of the Eighth Amendment.
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