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...North and East London early on Jan. 5 and took six men, all believed to be North Africans, into custody under the Terrorism Act of 2000. (A woman arrested with them was released, and a seventh man was apprehended later.) On Saturday, four of the men - named by Scotland Yard as Mustapha Taleb, Mouloud Feddag, Sidali Feddag and Samir Feddag - were charged with chemical weapons production and terrorism offenses. A fifth man was charged under forgery and counterfeiting laws and a sixth with drug offenses, while a seventh was released into Immigration Service custody. Found in the apartment above...
People have been traveling to Scotland for centuries - but never for the food. While Scottish beef, game, salmon and shellfish are prized by top chefs the world over, you are more likely to enjoy the best stuff in Madrid than in Edinburgh, because the lucrative export market consumes the best produce. The nation's cooking has long been a source of dismay to food-loving visitors and locals alike. But now a new generation of culinary bravehearts is transforming Scotland's gastronomic landscape. The notoriously sniffy Michelin guide awarded a star to two new restaurants in 2002, bringing the total...
...human nature, is being adopted by purveyors of high culture. For one of his first productions, the newly installed director of the Royal National Theater in London has chosen an opera based on Springer's talk show. A version of the opera debuted at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland this summer and is being reworked for an April opening in London. The new opera is expected to include such crowd pleasers as a kick line of Ku Klux Klansmen and a diaper fetishist. One hopes that this newfound respectability won't ruin Springer's reputation...
Mike Park remembers when he first started working the cod boats out of Aberdeen, on Scotland's northeastern coast. "The fish were plentiful and the boats few," he says. That was nearly 30 years ago. "Then the boats became plentiful," says Park, 43, "and the fish few." Today fish populations have dwindled so dramatically that the European Union's fisheries Commissioner, Franz Fischler, is calling for an 80% reduction by 2003 in catches of the most popular commercial species in European waters. Fischler's proposal doesn't go far enough for some scientists, who warn that if even more drastic...
...conceptualization of the themes of the play. Rather than the courtly appearance normally associated with Shakepearean drama—“played in tights and capes and those ridiculous pumpkin pants,” as Bittner describes them—the production aims for a sparse vision of Scotland that contrasts the real world of Macbeth with the supernatural one. While other productions of the play focus on the system of feudalism in Scotland, this one takes a different approach. “Our idea is that Scotland is very poor—there are no bards or balls...