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...analogy was not altogether farfetched. The technology of North Sea production is indeed impressive. But the prospective financial benefits are hardly enough to send Britons into orbit. The nation last year suffered a $9 billion payments deficit; production from the small Argyll field off the east coast of Scotland-the first tapped-will lighten that load by only $140 million annually. The Argyll field and three others to be opened this year will supply a bare 2% of Britain's oil needs...
...vegetation, no wildlife-not even insects. With help from the U.S. Forest Service and Penn State University, Jones imported and planted carefully selected species of trees from all over the world, seeking out those that might grow in the acid, stony soil. He brought in evergreens-pines from Austria, Scotland and Norway, Douglas fir from the Pacific Northwest-because they hide the still-furrowed landscape all year round. He planted Chinese chestnuts, which also thrive in otherwise inhospitable earth, and hybrid poplars that grow so quickly "you have to jump back after planting them so that...
After tomorrow's meet at Oxford the groups journeys to Birmingham. England for a runoff on June 15. The track and field at Edinburgh. Scotland, is the next destination and finally the team flies to Dublin, Ireland, to challenge the thinclads from the Emerald Isle...
Fearful of possible rioting, T.U.C. officials whisked their controversial guest to Scotland. During a tour of Kilmarnock, Shelepin fleetingly made contact with a real, live British auto worker, producing a less-than-historic exchange. "Is your lunch hour long enough?" inquired the Russian through an interpreter. "It's all right," the worker replied...
...infiltrate a conspiracy to destroy society. He penetrates the Central Anarchist Council to find six other members, identified only as days of the week. Syme assumes the remaining role of Thursday. After a series of painful pursuits and duels, he learns the identity of five colleagues: they are all Scotland Yard detectives in disguise. And Sunday? It is his identity that provides the book's philosophical richness and tension...