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Perhaps it was his isolation in a rural part of Scotland (the bucolic region of Midlothian, where he and his wife treasured long walks, gardening and the distinctive Scottish sport of curling) that permitted him to resist the naysayers. Or perhaps it was the isolation of the remote field of animal husbandry that fostered his originality...
...improbable chain of events that led Alexander Fleming to discover penicillin in 1928 is the stuff of which scientific myths are made. Fleming, a young Scottish research scientist with a profitable side practice treating the syphilis infections of prominent London artists, was pursuing his pet theory--that his own nasal mucus had antibacterial effects--when he left a culture plate smeared with Staphylococcus bacteria on his lab bench while he went on a two-week holiday...
Yesterday, Ian Wilmut, a Scottish professor and the researcher, who cloned Dolly, gave the most enigmatic presentation. Wilmut said cloning holds many benefits for science but that human replication could pose a host of problems...
After a disastrous week, the cast and crew of the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club's "The Memorandum" at the Loeb Experimental Theater said they blame the "Scottish Curse" for the three cast members taken to the hospital with injuries sustained...
Lead actor Thomas H. Price '02 agreed. "Our theory is that someone said the name of Macbeth in the theater" and invoked the "Scottish Curse...