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RETURNED. RONALD BIGGS, 71, celebrated British fugitive who helped execute "the Great Train Robbery," heisting [pound]7 million (more than $40 million today) from a Glasgow-to-London mail train in 1963; from Rio de Janeiro to the Belmarsh prison in London. Strokes have weakened the once fun-loving outlaw. Though many suspect that he turned himself in to seek medical care in prison, he insists all he wants is a pint in a pub before he dies...
...There are now two Kinkade galleries in the London region, one in Glasgow and another slated to open in Birmingham in August. Forty to 50 outlets are to launch in the U.K. and Ireland within the next seven years. "Our objective is that in the next five years international development will represent about 50% of the company's total revenue," says Rick Barnett, MAGI's senior vice president of retail development...
Only a few years ago, almost all U.S.-based franchising chains and other multinational businesses opted to send American managers to oversee their foreign offices. Lately, though, skilled U.S. managers have been saying "no, thanks," when asked to move their families to Guam or Glasgow. Relocation abroad is harder for the growing ranks of two-career couples. Another reason: a tight labor market obliges companies to accommodate their managers' preferences...
...merely send refugees underground, forcing them to take ever-deadlier risks to get in. Easing entry requirements makes good economic sense, since Europe needs 75 million new workers over the next 50 years to replenish its aging population; but try telling that to downsized factory workers in Stuttgart or Glasgow. And diversity doesn't sell in the E.U.: just 5 million of its 350 million citizens live outside their native country. The Continent's long-standing zero immigration policy seems premised on nothing so much as a hope that the problem will go away: if you build a Fortress Europe...
...According to David Reilly, a doctor at both the Glasgow Homeopathic Hospital and the Glasgow Royal Infirmary, the relationship of medical orthodoxy with non-traditional medicine typically goes through three stages...