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Contents of this eNews issue include: Message from the Dean (Lorin D. Warnick); Latest News: Dr. Krysten Schuler warns federal government committee of dangers of chronic wasting disease, Deadly protein partnership reveals new drug target for viral diseases, Construction projects earn LEED gold, silver honors; August trivia: The first building at Cornell dedicated entirely to veterinary medicine opened its doors in 1896. What was the scholastic requirement for students entering the veterinary program at that time?; Community Notes: Hoof it for the Horses 5K race, 2020 SAVMA symposium, Hellos goodbyes and HR update; Awards and honors (Cynthia Leifer), MPH program welcomes 5 new faculty and staff, Staff service award; CVM in the News: USA Today, Climate change could threaten dogs with diseases pushing into new parts of the USA, CNY Central, Cornell University's renowned veterinary program.

Recent events in Bulgaria have brought the true extent of its rule of law decay to the fore. The wars between the highest-ranking prosecutors in the country, public testimonies by participants in crime syndicates implicating senior magistrates and politicians, and the brutal murders of potential witnesses against organized crime demonstrate that the line between organized crime, the judiciary, and the political apparatus is increasingly difficult to draw. In this post, I argue that the current escalation of Bulgaria's rule of law crisis lays bare the European Commission's continued mismanagement of the Cooperation and Verification Mechanism (CVM).

This study is an application of CVM to a specific area in Brazil, the Corumbatai river basin, in the state of Sao Paulo, aiming to estimate the value attached by affected people to a hypothetical riparian forest restoration project. The method used was the double bounded dichotomous choice under a logit model. Data were obtained by street-intercept interviews with a net sample of 930 individuals, 20 years or older, living in seven municipalities (cities and respective rural areas) that contain the basin. Protest bid responses were not excluded in a first approximation, resulting in a R$ 2.06 mean willingness to pay (WTP) for the riparian forest restoration, equivalent to approximately R$ 274,000 per month (R$ 1.00 equivalent to US$ 0.52 at the survey period) when accounting for about 133,000 residences in the area. It was observed an expressive number of "no-no" responses from people ascribing the problem to government and farmers and suspecting on misuse of funds by the official agencies involved.

Rehabilitation of abandoned quarry sites could alleviate the effects of environmental dereliction and could meet the social demand for improvement of the quality of life in urban centers. Nevertheless, reclamation benefits are often overlooked in assessment procedures, since they are hard to estimate, at least in monetary terms. This paper examines the economic value of rehabilitation works, using an environmental economics framework. The survey is based on the Contingent Valuation Method (CVM), using as a case study an abandoned quarry site in the center of Athens, Greece. According to the estimates, recreation of the mined area produces an important economic value, which is associated with residents' preferences. The results provide quantitative information that may be used in a beneficial way to justify environmental policy and to provide additional Government funding towards environmental treatment of derelict land. (C) 2003 Published by Elsevier Science B.V.