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...Numbers 19,000 km Round-trip journey planned for prawns caught in Scottish waters before they reach British stores, by a seafood firm that calculates hand peeling in Thailand will be cheaper than machine peeling in Scotland 50? Hourly wage paid to Thai prawn peelers. The move will mean the loss of 120 jobs in Scotland paid at $11 per hour...
...master class along the sidelines. Her latest--her 11th--collection of stories, The View from Castle Rock (Knopf; 349 pages), marks a departure from her usual examinations of women in rural Canada leaving home to remake their possibilities by drawing instead on family documents, historical records (from 19th century Scotland) and what feels like memoir to piece together, in 12 parts, a fictionalized chronicle of how her tough-minded clan got from the Ettrick Valley near Edinburgh to America. Yet it shows, as usual, how to draw gasps from other writers by defying the laws of gravitas as effortlessly...
Though my transatlantic jaunt—no matter how glamorous and exciting I made it in my head—did not have the potential to teach me what it’s like to live in Scotland, I got a first-rate glimpse. In the end, although I’ll ultimately have to submit to always being a Jersey girl, I will forever strive to incorporate new homes into my life, and I’m glad I got to add Scotland to the list...
...very least, I’ve tried to incorporate Scotland into my “personal repertoire.” For me, home is not the quaint town of Edinburgh or the tall castles of Europe. For better and for worse, my roots remain in New Jersey. But while I will always remain loyal to that widely disparaged municipal territory, with its less-than picturesque turnpike, chutzpah-infused accent, and uniquely fragrant shore breeze, I’m thankful for the opportunity to participate in such a thrilling tour...
...wasn’t going to be able to disseminate concrete information about Scotland to my peers and if the trip was a fleeting assortment of events, what was the point of the weekend in the end? To be honest, I’m not so sure. While I’d like to believe that the government—along with New Jersey-based (!) PR agency MWW Group—strategically planned their efforts to recruit a member of The Crimson’s staff for the sake of Scotland, the lack of systematization to their efforts left them...