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...public face of new Scottish cooking, thanks to his award-winning BBC programs and best-selling books, is Nick Nairn, the youngest Scot ever to have won a Michelin star. Nairn's latest venture is a cooking school on the Lake of Menteith, in the gateway to the Highlands. "Ten years ago nobody would have dreamed of opening a cookery school in Scotland," he says. Now his courses are booked months in advance. Nairn is only one of the chefs updating the image of Scottish cookery. In a converted crofter's cottage on the Isle of Skye - a ruggedly beautiful...
...denomination and size are trying these new approaches and experiencing similar surges in attendance. "The more [kids] touch and they hear and they feel, the more likely the content becomes not only interesting, but they comprehend and understand," says Charlotte Echols, executive director for the child-development program at Highland Park Methodist United Church in Dallas. "That transforms into the good feeling that brings them back next week...
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...Along with their livelihoods, the highlanders say their culture is being ransacked. Beginning in the 1950s, Protestant missionaries, primarily from the U.S., won converts among the Montagnards, and today some estimates put the number of Christians at some 70%. The communist government in Hanoi views any religious movement as a potential political rival. Only a few churches have been granted official status, and congregations without state approval worship at their peril. Even hill-tribe Christmas celebrations, which are held without interference in other parts of Vietnam, are subject to harassment. Leh Ksor, 35, a new resident of Raleigh, recalls...