This has been a bad week for Britain's National Lottery. The Millennium Dome—the most notorious lottery-funded project in Britain—has been excoriated in parliamentary hearings and an auditor's report. Every visitor who walks into the giant tent in Greenwich has, it seems, been subsidised to the tune of about £140 ($200). The Dome may yet be torn down at the end of the year. Meanwhile the Eden Project—the world's largest greenhouse, and one of the biggest lottery-funded projects outside London—has become embroiled in a potentially costly lawsuit.
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