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Article: Scots' Science More Noteworthy Than Their Castles and Golf.(Scotland)
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- R & D
- Article date:
- April 1, 2000
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Renowned as a tourist haven, Scotland's real strength is as a scientific center of excellence that has much to offer high-tech companies who locate there.
It's difficult to appreciate Scotland's standing as a scientific powerhouse, and one reason is the country's success in marketing itself as a tourist attraction. Fables about enchanted villages that shroud themselves in Highland mists for but one day every hundred years, to stay untouched by the outside world, make for enticing, if kitschy, travel brochure fair, as do stories about sea monsters and witches and "wee people," and images of castles and kilts and bagpipes and of a land apparently given over to ...
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