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Though the bagpipes are a distinctly Scottish instrument, Easterday said she found them equally appropriate on an Irish holiday...
Traditional Scottish and AmericanBallads--performed by David Ingle. KirklandJunior Common Room, 4 p.m. Free...
Even to a nation grown accustomed to multibillion-dollar business frauds, the allegations are shocking. A Scottish psychiatrist has charged Upjohn of Kalamazoo, Mich., with falsifying scientific evidence regarding the safety of the sleeping pill Halcion (annual worldwide sales: $240 million). The accusation has prompted a federal investigation. Dow Corning Wright of Arlington, Tenn., stands accused of failing to report that its silicone-gel breast implants were associated with severe side effects -- including the development of autoimmune disorders like rheumatoid arthritis and lupus. That product and similar implants made by other manufacturers have been placed in 1 million...
...doses and if the drug is taken for long periods of time. At the FDA's request, Upjohn revised the drug's package insert to warn patients not to extend its use beyond 10 days without consulting their physician. Last week the firm filed a libel suit against its Scottish accuser, Dr. Ian Oswald, and the British Broadcasting Corporation for televising allegations of fraud. Upjohn is also actively appealing the British Department of Health's decision last fall to ban Halcion...
...vague generality under fire, take the typical example, "Hume brought empiricism to its logical extreme." The question is asked, "Did the philosophical beliefs of Hume represent the spirit of the age in which he lived?" Our hero replies by opening his essay with "David Hume, the great Scottish philosopher, brought empiricism to its logical extreme. If this be the spirit of the age in which he lived then he was representative of it." This generality expert has already taken his position for the essay. Actually he has not the vaguest idea of what Hume really said, or in fact what...