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WASHINGTON: The U.S. has offered Muammar Ghaddafi nearly everything he asked for: The two suspects in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Scotland, if handed over by Libya, would be tried in a third-party country -- the Netherlands -- and by Scottish judges. But the U.S. isn't expecting Ghaddafi to accept. "This all may be for show," says TIME Washington correspondent Douglas Waller. "Ghaddafi must have ordered the bombings -- there are no rogue agents in Libya -- and it's hardly likely that he'll turn over two of his lieutenants...
From the people that brought you Dolly the Sheep and the people that brought you 50 cloned mice comes a new project: genetically engineered pigs. PPL Therapeutics in Edinburgh, Scotland, is teaming up with ProBio America for the potentially lucrative purpose of cloning pigs for animal-to-human transplants. "We are going to see if we can make their technique -- the Honolulu technique, used with mice -- work with pigs," said PPL chief Dr. Ron James...
...Daily reported, that this was an attempt to "call Ghadafi's bluff." But it appears that State was caught off-guard by the timing of the original report in the English newspaper the Guardian, confirming it while officials in London were still sticking to the original script: Trial in Scotland or the U.S. only. For the first time since Lockerbie, the U.S. and Britain seemed out of step...
LOCATION Usually held in one of a succession of very posh hotels in North America and Europe. This year in June it was held at the Turnberry Hotel in Scotland, across the street from a top golf course...
...return. For its part, Air France scrapped a two-tier pay system and promised the pilots that this is not the slippery slope to privatization. All well and good, but the fans still trapped at home by the World Cup carrier's strike will still miss Wednesday's Brazil-Scotland opener. For the image-conscious French, there's just one word for it all: Merde...