TUESDAY, February 27, 2001 ====== BRIEFLY NOTED ====== The British government, in its battle against mad cow disease, plans to burn cattle carcasses in a new power plant once it's operational this August, Reuters reports. The Intervention Board said the facility at Fawley, England, will become the country's fifth cattle-burning plant under a EU-sponsored program intended to combat the disease (Reuters, Feb. 26).