Word: leith
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...rough-hewn setting for Irvine Welsh's 1993 novel Trainspotting, the decayed dockside district of Leith, Edinburgh, provided a wonderfully seedy backdrop for a grim tale of nihilistic, drug-addled youth. But today, just 15 years later, Welsh's characters would struggle to recognize the Scottish capital's old port area. That's because over the past decade Leith - lying two miles (3.2 km) northeast of the city center - has experienced a rapid renaissance thanks to the closure of the docks and the cleaning up of once polluted waterways. The addicts have been replaced by white-collar workers, who live...
...Leith's focal point is the Shore: a café-studded quayside leading past a series of tranquil canals fed by the Firth of Forth. Overlooking this estuary is Leith's hippest address, the Malmaison Hotel, www.malmaison-edinburgh.com. It offers 100 individually designed rooms and a brasserie packed with Edinburgh's fashionable crowd...
Harvard Green Campus Initiative Director Leith J. Sharp said she hopes that the green attitudes practiced will spread beyond the competition’s participants...
...Harvard has made consistent and excellent progress that is a product of Rob’s good work,” said Director of HGCI Leith J. Sharp. Sharp commended Gogan for involving people across the campus in the University’s recycling endeavors...
...cost you money if you run the process a certain way,” says Visiting Scientist Leith J. Sharp, director of the Harvard Green Campus Initiative. “But if you do it through integrated design, and you have the commitment integrated into the project from day one, it is actually possible not to increase any capital cost...