Word: scottishly
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...that Texas hick Bush for President-that's why Americans are so f---ed up." More often, though, Asian directors dip into the pool of cultural references created by the West and happily exploit them. Vishal Bharadwaj's Maqbool sets Macbeth in Bombay, with gangsters in the place of Scottish lairds, though this entertaining Indian epic owes as much to Scarface as to Shakespeare. The Tesseract, from a novel by Alex Garland and directed by Oxide Pang (who with his brother Danny made last year's Hong Kong thriller The Eye), has a femme fatale with leather skirt, gun, motorcycle...
...Clone Money PPL Therapeutics, the Scottish biotech firm that cloned Dolly the sheep in 1996, announced it would fold after years of losses...
...Cloning Scottish embryologist Ian Wilmut cultured an adult ewe's cells and implanted them in a surrogate, and on July 5, 1996, Dolly was born. Litters of cloned mice followed, and the ethical debate intensified...
...child's name have been changed) became one of hundreds of parents in the U.K. to be accused in recent years of making their children ill or pretending that they are ill, thereby causing them to be subjected to unnecessary, potentially harmful medical procedures. In July, a Scottish court sentenced Susan Hamilton to four years in prison for assault and endangering her child's life. The court ruled that she had poisoned her now brain-damaged daughter with large doses of salt, prompting hospitalizations and doctors' visits over several years. Hamilton and her family say she was wrongly prosecuted. This...
...parents always said it was a nice Scottish name. But back in the '60s, when I was a kid, Bruce was for some reason the jokey, archetypal name for male hairdressers and interior designers, as Tex is for cowboys. In those days, unfortunately, I wasn't secure about my own masculinity...