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...vineyard tours are to France or brewery visits are to Germany, so whisky trails are to Scotland, connecting around 90 distilleries from the internationally famous to the delightfully obscure, and giving visitors a glimpse at centuries of whiskymaking history. Their growing popularity has prompted some Scottish distilleries to open slick tourist centers, complete with interactive exhibits and branded merchandise for sale - but it can be just as much[an error occurred while processing this directive] fun to turn up at a distillery where no concessions are made to visitors beyond an impromptu tour of the production facilities and a quick...
...years ago this week, on a warm July night, that a newborn lamb with an unique pedigree took her first breath in a small shed tucked in the Scottish hills a few miles south of Edinburgh. From the outside, she looked no different from thousands of other sheep born each summer on surrounding farms. But Dolly, as the world soon came to realize, was no ordinary lamb. She was cloned from a single mammary cell of an adult ewe, overturning long-held scientific dogma that had declared such a thing biologically impossible. Her birth set off a race in laboratories...
...said and done, Cameron did win the Tory leadership. Polls rate him as more popular than Tony Blair or Brown - and his speaking style has a lot more street cred than Brown's. Blair himself is the product of an Edinburgh school, Fettes, that is often called the Scottish Eton. A lot of institutions that used to symbolize and perpetuate inequality in Britain seem to have lost their toxic punch; the royal family, for example, has never been more popular. What about Eton? What lessons is it imparting today, to what kind of boy? Is it manufacturing smug toffs...
...Atiyah, the son of a Lebanese father and Scottish mother, was knighted and continued teaching until his retirement...
Irish pubs these days are almost as common as pizzerias the world over, so when Vladimir V. Luchina wanted to come up with a more original theme for a bar in Yekaterinburg, a Russian city in the Urals, he hit on the idea of a Scottish pub. Gordon's, which opened 18 months ago, is now one of the hottest places in town, particularly on weekend nights when local rock 'n' roll groups with names like the Spoilers play. Luchina has tried hard to make Gordon's look straight from the Highlands. Barmen wear kilts, a set of bagpipes adorns...