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...before 10 a.m., and at 39, Kennedy's serious about the business of writing - "I lie for a living" - while interviewers have a bad habit of confusing book and author. Which could be embarrassing, since Paradise (Jonathan Cape; 344 pages) is written from within the tortured mind of a Scottish woman who's almost 40, with a drinking problem so severe she can't remember the previous night's sexual encounter. "Fiction is fiction," says Dundee-born Kennedy, and sips her peppermint tea. She has no time for "the idea that if you write about something dark, you must...
Europe's most famous soccer teams are having a busy summer wooing fans in that perennial soccer wasteland, the U.S. Scottish champion Glasgow Celtic, English powerhouses Manchester United and Chelsea, and Italian champ AC Milan are among nine teams on tour, playing in such cities as Seattle, Cleveland and Philadelphia, often to packed stadiums...
Europe's most famous soccer teams are having a busy summer wooing fans in that longtime soccer wasteland, the United States. Scottish champion Glasgow Celtic, English powerhouses Manchester United and Chelsea, and Italian champ AC Milan are among nine teams on tour, playing in such cities as Seattle, Cleveland and Philadelphia, often to packed stadiums. For the players, it's a chance for a preseason tune-up in the perfect environment - away from their rabid fans. "The facilities are second to none," says Chelsea Football Club CEO Peter Kenyon. But more important, the big clubs...
...more than 4,480 visitors have got to know the people on the lake. At the service station, proprietor Christine proudly shows a photo of her sculpture sent to her by an American tourist - "he said it was so nice to have a connection," she says. At lakeside, a Scottish traveler is illegally setting up camp for the night. "I don't know whether the statues are intrinsically meritorious," he says, "but I like the idea of creating them and installing them in such an out-of-the-way spot." Earlier that day, he and his wife had walked...
...building new plants didn't make economic sense. Prices are now up to about €35 per MW-h - still below the €40 threshold experts say is necessary to make building a new plant economic. Ian Russell, chief executive of Scottish Power, has said prices are still too low for him to invest in building new power stations, but his company did buy an existing power plant earlier this year to help meet demand. Another problem is finding a cheap way to generate power but still abide by E.U. pollution regulations and the Kyoto protocol to reduce greenhouse emissions...