The Scotsman back issues from August 1999:
Monday in San Francisco with Gina Arnold
Aug 02, 1999 ... AMERICANS are celebrated for their lack of language skills, butbelieve it or not, we are taught foreign languages in high school.The thing is, we aren't ever forced to use them once we have acquiredthem, tending instead to be thoroughly discouraged from pronouncingthe words correctly ....
New threats to peace process
Aug 02, 1999; ... ACTIVITIES of the Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Armylast week have greatly jeopardised hopes for a September breakthroughin the Northern Ireland peace process. The brutal murder of the 22-year-old West Belfast Catholic, Charles Bennett - his head wasblasted away by a shotgun ...
The Church must act to end bigotry
Aug 02, 1999; ... OUR Scottish parliamentarians might have been unwise to pressahead so hastily in deciding to hold daily prayer sessions instead offollowing the advice of Donald Dewar and others to put the matter forconsideration to an all-party group, but they were surely correct toinsist that, if the ...
What Next? No 76 Adding a bit of style
Aug 02, 1999; ... CONTINUING our look at Office 2000 and, in particular, Word, Ithought that we'd look at styles. These are a collection ofattributes - font, colour, bold, italic - that you can apply all atone time. For example, if you want your headings to be in 14 pointArial, in bold and aligned to the ...
Sabotage fears over Y2K programmers
Aug 02, 1999 ... SOME programmers hired to fix problems caused by the millenniumbug might be quietly installing malicious software codes to sabotagecompanies or gain access to sensitive information after the new year,two top United States government computer security experts warned. Michael Vatis, ...
Hackers are just guys having some fun, aren't they?
Aug 02, 1999; ... LIKE the cowboy, the gangster and the gold-rush pioneer beforethem, computer hackers operate outside the law, create their ownheroes and myths and stir up a whole heap of misery. That's the tabloid angle at least. The hackers of media legendhave toyed with satellites, infiltrated ...
Crunch time as UK site signs MP3 music deal
Aug 02, 1999; ... WHILE the debate on how to stop the pirating of music on theinternet using the technology called MP3 continues, companies are notwaiting until the dust settles to cash in. In the United States, the internet music site MP3.com hasastounded everyone with shares in its initial public ...
European challenge to US firm's monopoly on net names
Aug 02, 1999; ... THE European Commission is trying to prevent United States-basedNetwork Solutions Inc (NSI) from maintaining its stranglehold on theinternet. The commission has challenged European contracts signed byNSI, which allocates the world's website names. The US has already taken steps to ...
Low-tech views from the Dordogne Countdown 2000
Aug 02, 1999; ... IT IS holiday time. Here I am in the Dordogne reflecting on themillennium bug. The community here is very rural with little hi-techequipment, so it is interesting to speculate on the possible effectsof the Year 2000 problem. The lack of technology might lead you tobelieve that the ...
This man retired at 30, having made millions from mobile phones. Now he is back in business
Aug 02, 1999; ... CHRIS Gorman is either a compulsive entrepreneur or an obsessivesalesman. Perhaps there is no real difference. But the man who, atthe age of 30, "retired" from the all-conquering Scottish mobilephone company DX Communications now finds himself at the head of oneof the country's fastest ...
Ideal for flat hunters
Aug 02, 1999; ... LG ELECTRONICS used to be known as Lucky Goldstar and has a fingerin an enormous number of technology industries. But while it mightbe a small player in some areas, in monitors it is a world leader.Its factory in Newport, Wales, churns them out like there is notomorrow. The ...
Microsoft 'highly unlikely to be broken up' in antitrust case
Aug 02, 1999 ... A REPORT that the US Justice Department is seeking advice on howMicrosoft might be carved into pieces has revived speculation aboutthe outcome of the landmark antitrust case against the softwaregiant. But industry analysts and antitrust specialists said theyconsidered it highly ...
Nick Clayton is surprised to find airlines booming despite the growth of the internet
Aug 02, 1999; ... I COULD have been GBP 500 richer last week, courtesy of theairline business. All I had to do was rearrange my travel plans bysome indeterminate amount and the cash would have been mine. Backpackers seem to make up most of the huddles of "voluntaryoffloads" standing around various ...
Clean living for the future
Aug 02, 1999 ... A REAL-LIFE R2-D2 that can serve dinner or vacuum the carpet hasturned the domestic robot of science fiction into reality, it wasreported today. The "homebot" called Cye is now on sale by mail order in Americaand costs just under GBP 500. Resembling a dustpan with two ...
When trouble comes to paradise, your holiday need not become hell
Aug 02, 1999; ... IT IS an interesting time for the travel business. In a year thatsaw Kosovo slashing the European travel market and tornadoes blowingaway United States holidays, the major tour operators are desperateto seize back the initiative. Proactive marketing is seen as the future of selling ...
Home alone while at the office
Aug 02, 1999; ... THE way we work is changing fast. Offices are getting smaller,transforming themselves into a flexible system of laptop-wieldingworkers signing in from homes, cars or trains as companies strive todrive down costs and increase responsiveness and efficiency. It isthe way of the future and, ...
Service that is just a phone call away
Aug 02, 1999 ... NORTHAMPTON General Hospital has 700 beds and an urban catchmentarea of 300,000 people. Its previous catering order process, with 20suppliers, was too complicated, necessitating separate paperwork foreach. With the catering department placing 20 to 30 orders a week andprocessing ...
Jefferies keeps his cool despite storming start
Aug 02, 1999; ... St Johnstone 1 McQuillan (83) Hearts 4 McSwegan (29), Flogel (66), Dods (og, 78), Cameron (79) PUT it down to experience, but Jim Jefferies was keeping a senseof proportion on Saturday evening. While delighted Hearts players Thomas Flogel and Gary McSweganemerged from ...
Sky's the limit as visitors put pundits in paradise
Aug 02, 1999; ... IT WAS "men against boys" and you couldn't argue with DavieProvan's view of Sky TV's seasonal opener yesterday, as Celtic cameclose to justifying Charlie Nicholas's half-time hyperbole bycrushing Aberdeen in front of the watching millions. "Breathtaking stuff," oozed Chaz in his ...
Rico King Tut's Wah Wah Hut, Glasgow
Aug 02, 1999; ... IT'S hot, it's sweaty, it's a little claustrophobic - maybe it'snot so surprising that local lad Rico Capuoano comes on stage andmakes like a bear with a sore head for half an hour before sweepingoff the stage having done nothing more than shout over therelentlessly abrasive ...
Executive found guilty over NYSE scam
Aug 02, 1999; ... AN AMERICAN business executive has been convicted of conspiracy tocommit securities fraud for his role in falsifying a US company'sfinancial performance, which led to the biggest single gain on theNew York Stock Exchange in 1996. A federal jury voted to convict Robert Lockwood, 51, ...
Peasant's revolt at red tape
Aug 02, 1999; ... AS THE chairman of the Scottish Landowners' Federation'sagriculture committee, Mike Gibson is at the forefront of theorganisation's attempt to deal with some of the hottest issues facingthe industry. Access, land reform, the future of Hill Livestock CompensatoryAccounts (HLCA) ...
Paraglider plucked to safety after plunging onto cliff top
Aug 02, 1999; ... A PARAGLIDER who crashed into a cliff and was left hanging by theremains of his parachute was airlifted to safety yesterday. Mountain rescue teams battled to save the young man from fallingto his death as the fabric of his parachute started to tear. The incident happened over ...
Davies thwarted at the death in Calgary
Aug 02, 1999; ... ENGLAND'S Laura Davies had a fifth major snatched from her graspyesterday when Australia's Karrie Webb birdied four of the final fiveholes to win the du Maurier Classic, at Priddis Greens in Calgary. Webb, who had been eight behind at halfway, repeated her thirdround 66 to secure ...
Whitbread looks towards Greenalls as consolation
Aug 02, 1999; ... WHITBREAD declined to comment on reports at the weekend that it ismulling a GBP 1 billion-plus bid for Greenalls, the embattled pub andhotel group that last week issued its third recent profits warning. City observers believe Whitbread would be interested to capitaliseon Greenalls' ...
Harry Potter works magic on value of first editions
Aug 02, 1999; ... DEVOTEES of Harry Potter, the children's literary phenomenon,could be sitting on a small fortune as book collectors step up thehunt for first editions of the young wizard's latest adventure. Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban, by the Edinburgh authorJoanne Rowling, hit the ...
Gilmour's strike is scant reward
Aug 02, 1999; ... WASTED chances in the second half deprived Scotland's women ofvictory in the first of two hockey internationals against Japan atthe Inverclyde Sports Training Centre, Largs, yesterday. The result was a disappointment after a tremendous start by theScots. Two penalty corner strikes ...
MSPs 'must work longer hours'
Aug 02, 1999; ... THE parliament must treble its time in session and cut itsholidays to produce adequate legislation for Scotland, it was claimedlast night. Donald Gorrie, a Liberal Democrat MSP, said the parliament hadseriously underestimated the time needed to debate properly keyissues such as ...
Union's injury payouts reach 20m pounds
Aug 02, 1999; ... MEMBERS of Britain's biggest union have won more than GBP 20million in compensation for industrial injuries in the first sixmonths of this year, according to figures published today. Unison, which represents most local authority workers and morethan 250,000 staff in the National ...
Davys on line for trading in ISAs
Aug 02, 1999; ... AN INDEPENDENT financial adviser in Perthshire today becomes whatis believed to be the first in the UK to offer on-line trading inISAs. Davys Direct will offer the service in conjunction with theinvestment giant M&G using electronic trading and a secure site.Investors can both ...
Breakthrough on biomedical front Special Feature Healthcare Industry
Aug 02, 1999; ... DR Ian Wilmot of Roslin and Dr Ron James of PPL Therapeuticsrealised that although the birth of Dolly the sheep was a logicaldevelopment of earlier work to produce transgenic animals capable ofproducing human pharmaceuticals in quantity, the word "cloning" hadthe potential to set alarm ...
Japanese put money into Scots academia Special Feature Healthcare Industry
Aug 02, 1999; ... SEVERAL Japanese pharmaceutical companies are funding researchinstitutes in Scottish universities, including FujisawaPharmaceutical which concentrates on neuroscience, heart and cancerstudies; Yoshitomo Pharmaceutical, neuroscience; and KowaPharmaceutical, skin diseases. One of ...
Two die as trainer jet crashes into field
Aug 02, 1999; ... TWO men were killed yesterday when a jet crashed into a field twomiles from nuclear power plants in Gloucestershire. Staff from the Department of Transport's air accidentinvestigation board started an inquiry into the crash of the two-seater Jet Provost. Eyewitnesses said ...
Cautious optimism at Borders show
Aug 02, 1999; ... GLORIOUS sunshine and just a hint that the fortunes of theindustry may be about to move off the bottom combined to attract alarge crowd to the Border Unions' Agriculture Society's show atSpringwood Park in Kelso on Saturday. The talk around the rings was of better yields from ...
LIFFE set to forge alliance with CME
Aug 02, 1999; ... LIFFE, London's leading market in derivatives contracts, is setwithin days to unveil an alliance with the Chicago MercantileExchange, the biggest futures exchange in the United States after theChicago Board of Trade (CBOT). The move will be a direct response to the alliance formed ...
Macbeth stabbed in the back by curriculum
Aug 02, 1999; ... IT MAY be the Scottish Play but, according to education advisers,Macbeth is not quite Scottish enough. The work, which is associated around the world with Scotland, hasbeen left off the recommended reading list of texts in the Scottishliterature section of the new English Higher ...
'I won't really believe it until I see the cheque in the post'
Aug 02, 1999; ... WALTER Duff was told he would receive nothing if negotiationsbetween the pensionsers and the trustees broke down. He did notrelish the prospect of a High Court judgment on the outcome of theFerranti pensions saga, which could have left his retirement plans intatters. Last night ...
Personality test to help salmon stocks
Aug 02, 1999; ... IN THE life of men, it has been said, character is destiny. Now,a scientific study is to determine if the same is true of salmon. For centuries, the ability of the species to journey thousands ofmiles through the world's oceans and rivers to the streams wheretheir life began has ...
It's on wi' the Ray-bans in bonnie Dundee
Aug 02, 1999; ... THERE is one thing you will remember about this derby, and it isnot that cameo appearance from Portuguese man o' war Joaquim Ferraz,marvellous though it was, nor Willie Falconer's tuppenny piece spinand shot. It is not even the sight of Paul Sturrock sporting a goatee beardthat ...
How child-tagging passes the buck
Aug 02, 1999; ... EVERY PARENT knows that feeling of horrified panic. It could beat the supermarket or in the bus queue or at the school gates. Youturn your back for a second - just for a second - and suddenly yourchild isn't there. The chances are that he or she has wandered off to find a ...
Sampras proves to be thorn in Agassi's side once again
Aug 02, 1999; ... SECOND seed Pete Sampras edged out defending champion and top seedAndre Agassi 7-6 (7-3), 7-6 (7-1) in Los Angeles yesterday to win the$350,000 Mercedes-Benz Cup. Sampras blended a solid ground game with a powerful serve thatproduced 11 aces in the 95-minute match. It took his ...
Moretti completes a remarkable week
Aug 02, 1999 ... UNSEEDED Argentinian Hector Moretti claimed the men's singlestitle in the Scottish Tennis Championships at Craiglockhart with a 6-4, 6-1 victory over Hungary's Attila Savolt. It was an impressiveperformance by Moretti, who had beaten top seed and last year'srunner-up Jan Frode Andersen ...
Crash can't stop Laukkanen clinching British championship
Aug 02, 1999 ... FINLAND'S Tapio Laukkanen wrapped up his first major title when heclinched the Mobil 1 British Rally Championship with one round of thesix-event series remaining, writes Jim McGill. And, ironically, the29-year-old Finn won the British series with his worst result of ...
Edinburgh Military Tattoo celebrates its golden jubilee in style Week Ahead
Aug 02, 1999; ... WITHOUT doubt one of the finest spectacles in the world, theEdinburgh Military Tattoo, which will open on the esplanade ofEdinburgh Castle on Friday evening, this year celebrates its goldenjubilee. It will run until 28 August. It was in 1950 that the first Edinburgh Tattoo took ...
Spotlight on the big banks Week Ahead
Aug 02, 1999 ... THE UK banking community's stocks basked in the glow of LloydsTSB's impressive figures on Friday, and the spotlight will be onBarclays and NatWest this week to see if they can blaze a similartrail in a busy week for blue chip companies at the half-year stage. A resilient domestic ...
Nothing to be said when those around lose the head
Aug 02, 1999; ... THE variety of means by which the game of golf can reduce torubble those who attempt to play it never ceases to amaze me. I was amazed again recently when, as a perspiring partnerconvulsed in an effort to hit a distant green, there came a crackand, amid the subsequent blur of ...
Trinity to study MBO at Belfast Telegraph
Aug 02, 1999; ... TRINITY will take a hard, commercial look at a proposed buyoutplan by management at the Belfast Telegraph as part of its plan todispose of the paper and three other Ulster titles. The disposals are a pre-condition of regulatory approval for itsagreed GBP 1.2 billion takeover of ...
Hill storms off to leave Formula One future in doubt
Aug 02, 1999; ... DAMON Hill's Formula One future was plunged into doubt again lastnight when he quit the German Grand Prix after 14 laps then stormedaway from the Hockenheim track, elbowing a reporter in the process. Ferrari's Eddie Irvine won the race to overtake defending championMika Hakkinen at ...
Irvine stakes his title claim
Aug 02, 1999; ... EDDIE Irvine's credentials as a worthy replacement for MichaelSchumacher and a driver capable of becoming world champion passed asearching examination at the German Grand Prix yesterday as theUlsterman notched up his second win in eight days. Irvine now sits atop the drivers' ...
As crisis deepens, it's time to speak up, not button up
Aug 02, 1999; ... UPLAND sheep farmer Rog Wood, as he quite often does withouttrying, touched a raw nerve with his article of ten days agosuggesting that the writing was on the wall for hill lambs. The heartfelt and hurt response he extracted from letter writers,who included John Thorley of the ...
Internet to break stranglehold of record firms
Aug 02, 1999; ... THE world's music industry is set to undergo a revolution with aninternet company unveiling plans today to give unsigned bands thechance to release their music for free. Terry Ellis, the co-founder of Chrysalis, has teamed up with anentrepreneur, Damian Aspinall, to form ...
Double delight for Sheppard
Aug 02, 1999; ... ALISON Sheppard continued her rise up the world swimming rankswith a superb performance in the European Swimming Championships.She took bronze in the 50-metre freestyle in a time of 25.33 seconds,shattering her own British record by 0.14sec. Briefly it looked as if gold was there ...
Inquiry ordered at heart hospital
Aug 02, 1999; ... A LEADING heart surgery unit was under investigation yesterdayafter an anonymous claim of high death rates among child patients. Specialists have been called in to look at the circumstancessurrounding the deaths of child-ren and complications after surgeryat the Royal Brompton ...
Sacred shirt returned to Sioux chiefs
Aug 02, 1999; ... IT WAS as if the Great Spirit himself was casting his blessing. Aspotted eagle, the most sacred bird of the Lakota Sioux, soared aboveWounded Knee, as the ghost shirt was returned at last to its people. The eagle, circling first over the van carrying the shirt and thenthe massacre ...
Ferranti pensioners win court cash battle
Aug 02, 1999; ... MORE than 1,000 former workers with the defence firm Ferranti havewon a two-year High Court battle to prevent drastic cuts in theirpensions. The news, which has been greeted with delight by the pensioners,brings to an end one of the biggest pension scares in Scotland andone of ...
Ferguson offered 'bung' by agent for sale of Kanchelskis
Aug 02, 1999; ... SIR Alex Ferguson has claimed he was offered a GBP 40,000 "bung"by a Russian agent and that threats were made against ManchesterUnited chairman Martin Edwards over the sale of Andrei Kanchelskis in1995. According to Sir Alex's autobiography, Managing My Life, GrigoryEssaoulenko ...
UN chief condemns bombing of cathedral
Aug 02, 1999; ... THE UN chief in Kosovo condemned a bomb attack on a new SerbianOrthodox cathedral early yesterday and a church leader said thebombing was part of a systematic campaign by Albanian extremists. The powerful explosion shook buildings throughout the centre ofPristina, Kosovo's ...
Spain and Chile to seek arbitration on extraditing Pinochet
Aug 02, 1999; ... SPAIN and Chile are preparing to leapfrog the British courts andask international arbitrators to decide whether General AugustoPinochet should be extradited to face torture charges in a Madridcourt. Spain's conservative government, which is keen to avoid having theformer Chilean ...
Stars mullet over forgotten bad hair days
Aug 02, 1999; ... THERE have been hairstyles to deny ever having had - and thenthere's the mullet. The short-on-the-top, long-at-the-back, style was once thefavoured look of footballers and ageing pop stars. Now, despite allbut dying out, the mullet appears to be making something of acomeback and ...
Hunt for brutal killer as woman's last steps traced
Aug 02, 1999; ... POLICE were last night hunting the "brutal and violent" killer ofa young woman who died after a night out with friends. The body of Laura Anne Donnelly, 22, of Thistle Street, Paisley,was found on Saturday night on open ground at the town's Fergusliecricket club. Detectives ...
Supply and demand
Aug 02, 1999; ... TWO years ago The Scotsman reported on Supply Direct, a Scottishcompany that has used the internet to create a "one-stop shop" tosupply food to organisations such as schools, groups of nursing homesand NHS trusts. Formed in 1994 and based in Bridge of Allan, the company'sturnover ...
It's not whether you win or lose but how you play that counts
Aug 02, 1999; ... THE domestic football season kicked off in earnest in Scotland atthe weekend. To mark the start of another season full of hope, welook at some of the sites covering Scottish football in particular. First up, it's a red card for the Scottish Football Association'sofficial website ...
Hillary: Why I stood by my man
Aug 02, 1999; ... IF Talk magazine was intended to set tongues wagging, it certainlysucceeded yesterday. The "premiere issue" of the brassy new titleedited by Tina Brown, the transplanted Briton and former New Yorkereditor, made its debut with a gigantic plug from Hillary Clinton. The first lady of ...
'Lite' touch to language gives rise to angry words
Aug 02, 1999; ... GERMANS will wake up today to find their often complex languagealtered to more a simplified formula in all newspapers and magazines. "German lite", as some critics have dubbed it, doesn't changedramatically. The same complex word order, verbs-at-the-end-of-a-sentence and umlauts ...
Don't worry - hang in there
Aug 02, 1999; ... AUGUST is the crucial month for your Puma Edinburgh Marathonpreparations. By the end of the month, you will know, without doubt,whether you are on target to achieve your predicted finish time, orwhether you will need to scale down your goals. For all runners building up to this ...