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Catching the Wind.
The natives of Lewis know wind--sometimes too well. Every winter the Atlantic gales come blasting across the northern tip of Scotland's Outer Hebrides. The wind hardly slows down even after striking land; in the island's marshy interior, gusts regularly exceed 160kph. Everyone stays indoors but the sheep. Tourists arrive in summer, lured by mild temperatures and unspoiled countryside; even so, there's rarely a calm day. "The weather here is changeable," says Nigel Scott, spokesman for the local government. "But the wind is constant."
The brutal climate could finally be Lewis's salvation. The place has been growing poorer and more desolate for generations, as ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Catching the Wind.