Scoop: Top Scoops - At Last A Medal!

Friday, 22 September 2000, 3:58 pm
Article: Alastair Thompson

TOP SCOOPS
Mark Todd Wins NZ's First Medal
Hard News Is Here
Howard’s End: Environmental Battle Ahead Over Gondola
Protesters Kept Cullen Out Of WEF, Will He Get In At Prague?
No Surprises In Current Account Deficit - But Plenty of Angst
OLYMPIC UPDATES: Good Results In Sailing & Hockey
Scoop Olympics Humour: Real Q&A Session On Aus
Daylight Savings
Scoop World: UK Jury Convinced GE Crop Destruction Justified

TOP SCOOPS

Hard News Is Here

- GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ...day eight and still no medals. If the Olympic Games really is all a corporate bread-and-circuses plot to distract us from the economic system and further etch a handful giant global brands on our punchdrunk psyches, then I demand my croissant.See... HARD NEWS 22/9/00 - Flaming Olympics [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0009/S00149.htm

Howard’s End: Environmental Battle Ahead Over Gondola

- Environmentalists and tourism operators are on a collision course over two unrelated plans to build a tourist gondola link between Queenstown and Milford Sound and the opening of the Haast/Hollyford road linking the West Coast and Milford. See... Howard’s End: Fight Ahead For West Coast Gondola [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0009/S00148.htm

Protesters Kept Cullen Out Of WEF, Will He Get In At Prague?

The Commonwealth Finance Ministers meeting has been an important preparation for the IMF and World Bank meetings in Prague next week, Finance Minister Dr Michael Cullen said today from Malta. Meanwhile, Prague authorities have revoked permits for all street demonstrations on September 26th, but that probably won't stop the thousands of activists gearing up to disrupt the IMF/World Bank meetings next week. See... Cullen Ready For IMF And World Bank Meeting [1] and Prague Authorities Outlaw Protests On S26 [2] . See also... Oil Up & Currency Down A Global Problem - Cullen [3]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0009/S00372.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0009/S00208.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0009/S00332.htm

No Surprises In Current Account Deficit - But Plenty of Angst

- Balance of Payment statistics released moments ago by the Department of Statistics contain no surprises say economists. The figures did not impact on the dollar which has bounced back during the day to around 41 cents. See... Current Account Deficit Contains No Surprises [1] ANGST: - GREEN - Green Party Co-leader Rod Donald today said the Government had to wake up and recognise that 15 years of chasing free trade and globalisation has devastated the New Zealand economy. - More of same makes economic crisis worse [2] - GOVERNMENT - Improvement in underlying current account welcomed [3] - ACT - Worst Ever June-Year Deficit Says Hide [4] - RELATED - Dollar In Motion Links - (YAHOO - USD [5] )

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0009/S00147.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0009/S00378.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0009/S00377.htm
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0009/S00375.htm
[5] - http://quote.yahoo.com/m5?a=1&s=NZD&t=USD

OLYMPIC UPDATES: Good Results In Sailing & Hockey

- NEW ZEALAND'S horror Olympic's took a turn for the better yesterday when our sailors maintained their world class form during the cut-throat chase for medals on the waters of Sydney's magnificent harbour, while a moment of sheer sporting genius by Mandy Smith earned the New Zealand women’s hockey team a crucial 1-0 win over South Africa. See... SCOOP Olympic Update, Friday, 22 Sept, 2000 [1] and SCOOP Olympic Update, Thursday 21 Sept, 2000 [2] EARLIER: - THE TALL Blacks played excellent basketball today to really extend European champions, Italy, before finally suffering a hard-fought 78-66 defeat. See... SCOOP Olympic Update, Thursday, 21Sept, 2000 [3] ... more Olympics Updates are linked below, and HERE [4]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0009/S00146.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0009/S00145.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0009/S00142.htm
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/features/?s=olympics

Scoop Olympics Humour: Real Q&A Session On Aus

- Here are some of the classic questions that were actually asked of the Sydney Olympic Committee via their Web site, and the Aussie answers that go with them. See... A Little Q&A On Australia [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0009/S00207.htm

Daylight Savings

- Don't forget to put your clocks forward one hour before you go to bed on the evening of Saturday September 30. See... Clocks Go Forward One Hour - Sunday 1 October 2000 [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/GE0009/S00043.htm

Scoop World: UK Jury Convinced GE Crop Destruction Justified

- London, 20th September, 2000 Twenty-eight Greenpeace volunteers were acquitted today of criminal damage at Norwich Crown Court, Eastern England. The volunteers had gone on trial on September 4th on charges relating to a Greenpeace action at Lyng, Norfolk. See... 28 Greenpeace Volunteers Acquitted In GM Trial [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0009/S00199.htm

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