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...creek at 13 and a pond at 15. Nobody cried, not even Strange, though he did last week. He beat Faldo in the play-off by four strokes but really by something extra that the Englishman well understood. Recalling his own day of glory at the British Open in Scotland, Faldo said gracefully, "That was my dream as a kid. This must have been Curtis...
...certifiable American eccentrics. So says David Weeks, a clinical psychologist at Royal Edinburgh Hospital in Scotland, who has just published a scientific study of 130 British oddballs, past and present. Among them: Samuel Johnson, the rotund 18th century author who amused friends by rolling down steep hills, and Prince Charles, who talks to plants, if not to his wife Princess Diana. The British study, however, is only a warm-up for a nearly completed analysis of 800 American eccentrics. The tentative conclusion: the U.S. has displaced Britain as the uncontested eccentricity capital of the world. Declares Weeks, a native...
There are now an estimated 20 million riders hitting the decks. Skateboarders speed and rumble all around the Picasso sculpture in downtown Chicago. They come from as far away as Scotland to maneuver Milwaukee's Turf Skateboard Park. Georgia's Savannah Slamma is an annual springtime ritual for boarders to show their stuff. Says Scott Oster, 18, a pro skater out of Los Angeles: "Kids are ripping all over...
...leading oil-drilling company; the Atlanta Hilton hotel; and a controlling interest in the Dallas Galleria, a glittering complex of shops, offices and a hotel. The Kuwaitis are more visible in Europe. They own billions of dollars worth of British stocks, including 15% of the Royal Bank of Scotland and 5% of Trusthouse Forte, a leading hotel chain. On the Continent, Kuwait has invested more than $2 billion in Spanish companies. In West Germany, Kuwait owns 20% of Metallgesellschaft, a mining, metals and plastics company, and 14% of Daimler- Benz, the car manufacturer...
...should Infinite in All Directions, even though it is a revised version of a series of academic talks delivered at the University of Aberdeen in 1985 and hence an unlikely candidate for popular appeal. But Dyson is not the first person to turn a Gifford lectureship in Scotland into a book; other products of this prestigious assignment include William James' The Varieties of Religious Experience and Alfred North Whitehead's Process and Reality. Anyone would be daunted by such illustrious predecessors, including Dyson: "Confronted with the fact that I was not William James or Alfred Whitehead, I decided to make...