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...Jura, Scotland. The Jura Hotel is the only hotel in the only village on the remote Scottish island of Jura - a cozy refuge, where you can tuck into drams of whiskey (the famous Jura distillery is nearby) and roast venison or locally caught lobster. (The island is also where George Orwell wrote the novel 1984.) You can go deer stalking here - the deer outnumber the residents - and fish or go on pony treks along the moor. Rates start at $55 per night, including breakfast. Isle of Jura, Argyll, Scotland...
...sticky Higgs field without picking up mass. Others get bogged down and become heavy; that is the process that creates tangible matter. "The Higgs gives everything in the universe its mass," says David Francis, a physicist on the ATLAS experiment. Pointing at CERN's grand geological amphitheater of the Jura and the Alps. "None of that is possible without the Higgs...
...Mallya's billion-dollar investment will get him more than a seat in the clubhouse. "It really gives him a good portfolio," says Alan Gray, author of the Scotch Whisky Industry Review for Edinburgh analysts Sutherlands. "It has brands like Whyte & Mackay. And the Isle of Jura and the Dalmore single malts are the icing on the cake." The acquisition also provides UB with a ready supply of scotch to blend into Indian whisky and to export to India and China. UB plans to double production at the Invergordon distillery within a year, creating the biggest whisky plant...
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...there are many malt whiskeys, but few are from a region so remote that the deer outnumber people 25 to 1 and the bank is open only once a week. The Hebridean island of Jura, off the coast of Scotland, is so isolated that George Orwell chose it as his retreat in order to write his novel 1984. For a price, whiskey aficionados can visit the island and distill their own casks of Jura, ready for bottling in 10 years' time. Or they can enjoy the gentle spice and fruitiness of Jura's 10-year-old whiskey right...