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...Born in 1955 in Glasgow, Scotland, she grew up in Staffordshire, England and graduated from Liverpool University in 1977 with a degree in philosophy...
...swine flu cases were also confirmed in Canada, Scotland, Spain and the U.S., where the number of confirmed cases more than doubled to 43 - 28 of them students at the same New York City high school. (All the U.S. patients have thus far recovered with few complications.) The deteriorating situation prompted the U.S. State Department to recommend that travelers postpone "nonessential travel" to Mexico - even after U.S. officials criticized the European Union for issuing a travel ban to the U.S. and Mexico. (See five things you need to know about swine...
...investors already wounded by the global economic crash, news of a potential pandemic came as a further blow. "As if we didn't have enough to contend with," strategists at the Royal Bank of Scotland wrote in a note to clients Monday, "it's just what we need now, a flu pandemic in the midst of the biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression." Amid the sell-off, travel industry stocks fell sharpest. Shares in Lufthansa, Europe's second-largest airline, tumbled by more than 12% before recovering slightly. Those of rival British Airways pulled back from similar lows, trading...
...perfect video of contestant Susan Boyle’s crowd-wowing rendition of Les Miserables’ “I Dreamed a Dream.” If you haven’t, perhaps you’ve heard her background story—hailing from Blackburn, Scotland, she is a middle-aged, unemployed charity worker who, after caring for her recently deceased mother, now lives alone with a 10-year-old cat named Peebles. Perhaps you “can’t write this stuff,” but there is no doubt that you can edit...
...Boyle's story is similar but with fewer light notes. Her hardscrabble town was Blackburn in Scotland. She also auditioned for a Barrymore TV show, but didn't make the cut. Yet she took singing lessons and recorded Cry Me a River for a charity CD in 1999, the same year she made a demo tape. An observant Catholic, she often sang at church and on karaoke nights. So her talent was no surprise to her neighbors. "Everyone here knew she could sing," Jackie Russell, manager of the local pub, told the AP. "We were always saying, 'You should...