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Head coach Carole Kleinfelder will direct the team in a game situation for the first time this year. Kleinfelder, who recently finished coaching the U.S. women's lacrosse team on a tour through England. Scotland and Wales, had entrusted the preseason chores to assistant coach Mary Ellen Martin...
...half a century ago. At the time, it was an exotic import favored notably by Japanese naval officers, who had picked up the taste from British seamen. He opened the first Japanese whisky distillery, using as working drawings for the equipment rough sketches of pot stills brought back from Scotland. Lighter and possessing slightly more body than most Scotch whiskies, premium 84-proof Suntory brands, which almost all Japanese drink mixed with water or soda, are deemed by many experts to be first-class blends...
...scientists wondered why the body developed opiate receptors in the first place, unless it somehow produces its own internal narcotics. Acting on just such a premise, Pharmacologists John Hughes and Hans Kosterlitz at Scotland's University of Aberdeen in 1975 isolated two peptides from the brains of pigs. Remarkably, the peptides seemed to be natural opiates. Hormonologist Choh Hao Li of the University of California in San Francisco had already discovered similar molecules in the pituitary glands of camels, animals whose insensitivity to pain had long intrigued scientists. Hughes and Kosterlitz dubbed the molecules enkephalins (from the Greek word...
...hundreds of Western Isles, few are as precious to Scots as tiny lona (pop. 90), where many kings of Scotland are buried and where St. Columba landed in the 6th century, bringing Christianity and the Irish art of whisky distilling. In 1693 the powerful Campbells of Argyll received the 4½-sq.-mi. island as a gift from the Crown and have watched over it ever since. But from Inveraray Castle, ancestral home of the Dukes of Argyll, came word last week that lona will be sold to raise money for taxes. The announcement touched off concern among Scots...
...island because he owes the government $1 million, the result of estate duties incurred on the death of his father in 1973. He says he shares his countrymen's concern for lona's future and would prefer to turn it over to the National Trust of Scotland, which would ensure the preservation of its historic sites and natural beauty. But he concedes that he will have to consider selling it to a private developer if the government does not offer him what he considers a proper price; that is likely to be in the $2 million area...