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Faith Liddell, 44, director, Festivals Edinburgh I'd start my day with a hearty Scottish breakfast in the brasserie of the Scotsman hotel, tel: (44-131) 556 5565. Then I'd walk down the Royal Mile and climb Arthur's Seat, a little bit of highland landscape right in the center of the city. Afterward, I'd head to the National Museum of Scotland, tel: (44-131) 225 7534, not forgetting the museum's Tower Restaurant, tel: (44-131) 225 3003, where both the food and the views are fabulous. Next stop would be the Scottish National Gallery of Modern...
...tried to pick ourselves up at the start of the second half,” Amaker said. “But with an 11-point cushion for their team here at home, that’s a big hill for our team to climb...
...expert from Essex, and his wife Tracy, the Californian punk group Rage Against the Machine's 1992 hit "Killing In The Name" was propelled to the top spot on download sales of roughly 500,000, beating out X Factor winner Joe McElderry's cover of Miley Cyrus's "The Climb" by 50,000 copies. It was the first time a group has topped the British charts based on download sales alone. (See the top 10 songs...
...defeat. "It's been exciting to be part of a much-hyped battle and they [Rage Against the Machine] definitely deserve congratulations," McElderry said. Perhaps a slightly closer look at his own song's lyrics would have provided a taste of what was to come. For as "The Climb" tells us, "Always gonna be an uphill battle / Sometimes I'm gonna have to lose...
...government stimulus money has spilled into property markets, and prices climb as developers struggle to acquire new stock, some Chinese have grown desperate as they struggle for what they see as fair payment for their property - or simply want to hang on to their homes. The media often carries stories of the struggle getting violent. Late last month protesters shut down several major intersections in the southwestern city of Guiyang after a dozen residents were kidnapped so workers could demolish their homes. (See portraits of China's workers, from the 2009 Person of the Year special...