Now Salmond issues challenge to London's grip on foreign policy (The Scotsman) ALEX Salmond issued a clear challenge to Westminster yesterday as he declared Scotland would play a bigger role on the world stage under his leadership....more...Get fit with an active holiday (Times Online) I blame my tailor. Fifteen years ago, he made me a lovely suit. I went back for a replacement recently and he measured me, then looked up the old statistics in the book. ?Well,? he said glumly, ?look on the bright side. At least you?re roughly the same height.?...more... Why Does America Have Such Strange Borders? (American Heritage) ?The acknowledgment of a definite line of boundary to the South Sea,? John Quincy Adams wrote, calling the Pacific Ocean by its former name, ?forms a great epocha in our history.?...more... Land of the midnight sauna (Guardian Unlimited) Travel: A remote lakeside cottage surrounded by deep forest - you usually have to cross the Atlantic for this kind of escape. Owen Sheers discovers one closer to home....more... AGU Journal Highlights -- June 7, 2007 (EurekAlert!) A new model that couples biotic and abiotic processes in intertidal zones predicts that salt marshes in Italy?s Venice Lagoon may not survive future climate changes. These projections of the model developed by study authors Marani et al. stem from current forecasts of sea-level rise....more... Future of trams uncertain but work on depot goes on (The Scotsman) THIS morning, more than a dozen workers in hard hats and yellow jackets will make their way to a construction site in the west of Edinburgh, near one of the city's most congested roundabouts....more... Television movies for the week of June 3 (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) Read this article ]...more... |