Canadian cattle not allowed into U.S.>b\nThe U.S. Senate voted Thursday to overturn the Bush administration's decision to allow Canadian cattle into the country again nearly two years after they were banned because of mad cow disease.\nAgriculture officials had planned to reopen the border Monday. However, U.S. District Judge Richard Cebull granted a temporary injunction sought by Western ranchers seeking to keep the ban in place March 2.\nBecause of two new cases of mad cow in Canada this year, the ranchers argued that allowing Canadian cattle into the United States would pose a risk to both consumers and U.S. cattle producers. \nAlthough U.S. ranchers are gaining profits because of the ban, U.S. meatpackers say their inability to buy Canadian cattle has cost their industry more than $1.7 billion, forcing layoffs and idling production.
IOPO's organ donation \nregistration event today Wednesday \nThough the tiny red heart in the left-hand corner of an Indiana driver's license denotes its owner as an organ donor, official registration through the Indiana Organ Procurement Organization allows potential donors to make their wishes detailed and specific. To make this registration easy, School of Music employee Susan Buzan will be stationed in the Clouse Lounge of Merrill Hall with laptops cued up to the IOPO Web site available for anyone to register from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. today and Wednesday. Buzan plans to get all interested parties officially registered with IOPO, as well as give them information to send to their families about their decision.\n"Registering to be an organ donor should be as natural as breathing," Buzan said.\nInformation about organ donation, open discussions with people who have had donation experiences and free giveaways will also be available at the event. The Indiana Life Celebration Quilt, a compilation of patchwork squares each celebrating an organ donor, will also be on display.
Sonar might have beached 70 dolphins\nMARATHON, Fla. -- The Navy and marine wildlife experts are investigating whether submarine sonar could have caused about 70 rough-tooth dolphins to beach themselves off the Florida Keys Wednesday.\nTwenty dolphins that became stranded have died, including 13 who were euthanized, officials said Friday. More than 30 were moved to rehabilitation facilities Saturday. \nThe day before the dolphins stranded themselves on shore, the USS Philadelphia had conducted training exercises with Navy SEALs off Key West, about 45 miles from Marathon, where the dolphins became stranded. \nNavy officials refused to comment whether it used the submarine's sonar during the drills.\nSome scientists argued that loud bursts of sonar, which can be heard for miles in the water, may disorient or scare marine mammals, causing them to surface too quickly and suffer the equivalent of what divers know as the bends -- when sudden decompression forms nitrogen bubbles in tissue.\nExperts are conducting necropsies on the dead dolphins, looking for signs of trauma that could have been inflicted by loud noises.
