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North Sea oil is low in sulfur content, and thus relatively nonpolluting. More important, it lies on Western Europe's doorstep; British Petroleum's "Forties" field (see map) is only 115 miles off the Scottish coast. By contrast, much Persian Gulf oil must now be hauled 11,000 miles by tanker around Africa before it reaches Europe. Fuel from the North Sea promises to supply 10% to 15% of Europe's energy needs by 1980-not enough to materially reduce dependence on the Mideast, but perhaps sufficient to enable the Continent to survive a brief shutoff...
Scotland stands to benefit too. Aberdeen, once a somnolent fishing city, has become the undisputed center of the oil rush. Some 250 companies, many of them American-owned, are supplying everything from helicopters to hot meals for the drillers; unemployment in the city has dropped to 2.7%, half the Scottish average. But Aberdonians do not count the boom an unmixed blessing. Oilmen confide that the danger of a pipeline break under the North Sea is high. Many Scots worry that some day a tide of oil will roll in from the sea, burying their sandy beaches and destroying watering spots...
...Caledonian Airways, the most aggressive scheduled carrier to appear on the crowded North Atlantic run in years. Caledonian launched its new flights April 1, to the accompaniment of a slick ad campaign that bills the company to American passengers as "the airline other airlines hate" because of the superior Scottish-style service provided by its pilots, baggage handlers and kilt-clad stewardesses...
...ballet segments have been made in a studio eliminating the authentic sense of baliet as it is performed in front of a live audience), and the camera is placed so close to the dancers that any illusion of reality is lost. As a result, in La Sylphide about a Scottish lord who falls in love with a wood nymph), as the camera glides coyly behind a plastic bush and peers out at Nureyev in white lipstick and kilt, nostrils flaring, the effect is more like a parody of Brigadoon than serious, classical ballet. In The Sleeping Beauty, it is grossly...
...notion of infinity was conceived, as was the zero, by the Eastern mind. Yet it seems a peculiarly Western need to determine the indeterminable. Scottish Essayist Thomas Carlyle once noted that man must "always worship something−always see the Infinite shadowed forth in something finite." At the moment, the something worshiped is science, and the something finite is quasar OH471, the blaze marking the edge of the universe. But before the poetic notion of infinity is crushed between the calipers of science, it is best to remember that quasars were discovered only a decade ago. More probably, what astronomers...