News from dookie

FETHIYE, Turkey - Miscarriages arouse sympathy and interest in equal measure and are frequently featured in women`s magazines and supplements as tragic human-interest stories. To find one as the middle-page spread of German newspaper Bild is unusual.

"If a girl says she likes `The Big Lebowski,` instantly, I think `stoner.` " That`s Matthew Kuhlke speaking. We`re sitting at a table full of grilled meat and jug sodas on a late-summer weeknight in midtown Atlanta. "She hangs out with a bunch of guys. She dates them a little bit, but she really just likes the attention."

DUSHANBE, Tajikistan – Local Jews received the long-awaited present: Shochet Ariel Ismailov has arrived to Dushanbe from Uzbekistan to produce kosher meat.

CHICAGO (AP) — Eating red meat may raise a woman’s risk of a common type of breast cancer, and vitamin supplements will do little if anything to protect her heart, two new studies suggest.

Deer season might mean a week off work for hunters, but for others, it means logging more hours than any other time of the year. At Michigan Meat Processing in Escanaba, employees work around the clock to meet the demands of hunters bringing in their deer.

A new study of nearly 90,000 women published in the Annals of Internal Medicine found that consumption of red meat in early adulthood increased their risk for hormone-related breast cancer later on.

LONDON (Dow Jones) -- Meat contaminated with BSE may be on sale throughout the U.K. because of widespread fraud at abattoirs, The Independent reports Monday, citing inspectors.