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News: "Ice Age" game lets you hunt wooly mammoths -- http://download.com.com/3000-2095-10132851.html Comment: I haven't downloaded this yet, but it sounds interesting. The "Deer Hunting"-type computer games let you hunt with bows and firearms. Maybe this one has you hunt with flint-tipped spears? There are deer hunters in real life who reject modern technology. Instead, they build their own bows and arrows and hunt like the original Native Americans. Firearms are still enough of a challenge for me. News: Speaking of deer hunting, experts meet in Denver to discuss what to do about chronic wasting disease, a variant of mad cow disease that kills deer: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/07/science/07DEER.html Comment: They've found chronic wasting disease in deer in Wisconsin, much too close to Michigan for comfort. The article says "A human form of mad cow disease, called new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, has killed 125 people, mostly Britons. Experts worry that chronic wasting disease might also spread to humans who eat infected deer or elk, but experts said at today's meeting that there is no evidence this has happened in the United States." There may be no evidence now, but I'm going to watch this carefully. If they find chronic wasting disease in Michigan deer, I may be tempted to give up deer hunting. I won't kill a deer I can't eat. And it may become too risky to eat deer. Click here to see current comments and add your own. 11:20:49 AM 
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