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...Hank Harrison, a Grateful Dead biographer and the father of Courtney Love, had lent Einhorn a few dollars in Britain. But neither Harrison nor British rock star Peter Gabriel, twice visited by Einhorn, knew he was an accused murderer. DiBenedetto suspected Gabriel was funneling money to Einhorn. Gabriel told Scotland Yard...
...Britain, the fuel tax-driven rise in electricity costs helped encourage Sainsbury's in March to refrigerate part of a food-storage depot in East Kilbride, Scotland, with electricity generated by a towering, 213-ft.-tall wind turbine. Sainsbury's also powers the refrigerators on some of its delivery trucks through solar panels on the vehicles' roofs. Denmark's government used to subsidize the installation of wind turbines but abolished the program in 1989, when wind power was regarded as fully competitive with electricity produced from heavily taxed fossil fuels...
...glimpse of the world's most famous monster. Italian geologist Luigi Piccardi says they will never find Nessie, because she's an earthquake. He claims seismic activity in the Great Glen Fault, directly under the Scottish lake, coincides with the sightings, groaning noises and water-surface disturbances attributed to Scotland's favorite beast. Tell that to the tourist bureau...
...They want something in the Atlantic so they don?t have to reassign ships to a completely new locale. The Navy has held bombing practice in the Mediterranean and in Scotland. The problem is in Vieques you can have airplanes flying, dropping bombs, ground staff doing their maneuvers and amphibious crews practicing. Finding a place where you can practice the trifecta of military maneuvers - air, land and water - is extremely difficult. The Navy was well aware of this difficulty, which is why there was so much resistance to leaving Vieques in the first place...
...people think "enduring": a royal succession that goes back to 1066, the language of Shakespeare, ancient universities, the mother of Parliaments. But the reality of Blair's post-imperial, globalized Britain - when the royals are tabloid fodder, hereditary peers have been kicked out of the House of Lords, and Scotland and Wales have their own assemblies - is better described as fluctuating. And that is giving British politics a case of vertigo. In small ways and large, national identity, and its more prickly cousins immigration and race, keep popping onto the national agenda...