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...Europe, protests against the biotech industry are a staple of the news. Now a trade group is mounting a counterattack starting in classrooms. In April, 600 schools in Scotland were sent 84,000 copies of a magazine called Your World: Biotechnology & You. Produced by the Biotechnology Institute, an industry-funded organization based in Washington, the magazine features stories on transgenic animals and other biotech wonders. A recent issue highlights Monsanto's herbicide Roundup; another features a girl who took Prozac and "felt like herself again." Since 1999, 4,500 U.S. schools have received the magazine, to little protest...
...heard about Online Originals at a writers' workshop in Scotland. One of the other writers mentioned it, and right away I thought it was a great idea. A low-cost, high-reach, tree-preserving way of putting one's works at the disposal of readers, not just in one country, but in the English-speaking community worldwide. My experiences with Online Originals were extremely positive. They put The Glass Palace Chronicle on the site six months later with virtually no editing. I got hooked and gave them The Angels of Russia without bothering to submit it to print publishers...
...Campbell, born in Scotland, lately transplanted to Australia, earned his reputation among the comixcenti in the late 1980s for his semi-autobiographical works (collected last year as "Alec: The King Canute Crowd"). His mainstream success came when he drew "From Hell," the twelve part Jack-the-Ripper series by "superstar" comix-writer Alan Moore, the movie of which stars Johnny Depp and has a September release date...
...left jab on the guy and wrestled him until police arrived. "I wish, of course, that the incident I was involved in hadn't happened," said Prescott. "But no one can now complain about a lack of interest in this election campaign." Actually, Sir Malcolm Rifkind, leader of Scotland's Conservative Party, complained that Prescott had ruined "a long and honorable tradition of throwing eggs at politicians." In Poland on a European speaking tour, Bill Clinton was also the target of an egg thrower. The ex-President brushed himself off, saying, "It's good for young people to be angry...
...little before noon on March 1, Tim Blackman, his girlfriend and his two surviving children opened a bottle of Veuve Clicquot champagne on the beach where Lucie had been recovered. With representatives from Scotland Yard and the Tokyo Metropolitan Police looking on, as well as dozens of paparazzi buzzing the water in speedboats, the Blackmans planted a small evergreen tree in Lucie's memory. Tim said of his daughter's end, "I hope Lucie had a glass of champagne, felt a bit woozy and passed out." They prayed. They cried. And then, for some reason, they started to laugh...