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...going to be wonderful, and you'll want to be a part of it,'" Smit says. "'Also, we have no business plan.'" Amazingly, the line worked. Smit scraped together more than $100 million, and after a final construction season pummeled by 134 straight days of rain - soggy even for Britain - the park opened on time in the spring...
...even its founder admits. "All environmental-science centers go bust, because they're boring as s____," he says. But Eden wasn't boring, and it didn't go bust. The park has pulled in more than 9 million visitors since it opened, and it's still one of Britain's top attractions, more popular than the Tower of London. It helps that Eden is visually stunning. Visitors descend into the former clay hole, now landscaped and studded with native vegetation, to arrive at the main attraction: two honeycombed domes, shaped like grapefruit halves, bubbling up from the base. These...
BROWN: "There is no weakness in Britain today that cannot be overcome by the strengths of the British people...
Because different countries are different. I would not fear an Iceland with nuclear weapons any more than I fear a Britain with nuclear weapons. I do fear Iran or North Korea with nuclear weapons...
Bird flu breaks out in Britain...