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Yesterday's top 30 rating items on Scoop were...
Scoop Investigation: HIV is threatening the Pacific's isolated communities with an infection rate that destroys
cultural, economic, and community stability. For example: HIV/AIDS, not global warming, is the number one problem
threatening Tuvalu's survival. ...
Tallahassee, FL: "Are we having fun yet?" This is the message that appeared in the window of a county optical scan
machine, startling Leon County Information Systems Officer Thomas James. Visibly shaken, he immediately turned the
machine off.
BANGKOK, Thailand -- The Osama bin Laden cigarette lighter is adorned with his raised, chrome portrait, an embossed
"9.11", sketches of the World Trade Center, an approaching airplane, and a big red splotch.
Tuesday's revelation that W. Mark Felt, the former number two man at the FBI, was the anonymous source known as Deep
Throat, who helped Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein unravel the Watergate scandal in the pages of the Washington Post 30
years ago should ...
1. ROD DONALD to the Prime Minister: Was freedom of speech one of the human rights issues she discussed with Chinese
Premier Wen Jiabao during her meeting with him this week?
Author's note: I cannot attest to the absolute accuracy of the following transcripts, as the print was smudged with
perspiration by the time I received them. It seems my confidential source, a congressional page, had to smuggle them out
of the House ...
Scoop Editors' Note: Following publication on Scoop.co.nz of Barbara Sumner Burstyn and Ron Law’s report,
Investigation: The Meningococcal Gold Rush [1] - a report into the flawed science and bad policy of the MeNZB™ vaccine -
the Ministry of Health ...
The recent experience of Dr Michael Cullen seems to have given his colleagues ideas. For years they have struggled with
the burden of it being inadvisable - and in some cases expensive - to declare obvious and demonstrable falsehoods. Or at
any rate, ...
The 2005 Hays Salary Survey, detailing typical salaries for a range of sectors and locations, including Auckland and
Wellington, will be released tommorrow.
Michael Cullen apparently surprised a few gallery reporters yesterday morning by laying into TV3, claiming that one of
its reporters had posed as a former Bayfield High student on the Internet in search of historical scuttlebutt on David
Benson ...
A National Party billboard that is working a number of New Zealand internet political diarists into a lather is not
quite kosher according to National Party Election 2005 campaign manager, Steven Joyce.
Auckland Harbour Bridge will fly the flag of Samoa tomorrow in recognition of the Samoan National Day. The flag will fly
from dawn until dusk on Wednesday 1 June.
1. Iraqi Immigrants—Saddam Hussein Regime 2. Genetically Modified Organisms—Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety 3. Budget
2005—Taxation Thresholds 4. Budget 2005—Fiscal Proposals, Alternative 5. Budget 2005—Taxation Changes 6. Crimes
Act—Repeal of Section 59
1. China—Human Rights 2. Iraqi Immigrants—Investigation 3. Sexual Health Campaign—Minister's Statement 4. Education
System—Performance 5. First Home Ownership—Government Assistance 6. Taxation—Consumer Price Index 7. Genetically
Modified Corn—Unapproved Presence ...
Australian beauty therapist Schapelle Corby has been found guilty of drug trafficking by a court in Bali Indonesia of
trafficking 4 kilograms of marijuana to Indonesia.
Rev. Tim LaHaye thinks deep thoughts. Co-author of the best-selling Left Behind and Babylon Rising novels, the
78-year-old evangelical probes the mind of God as revealed in Holy Scriptures.
Prime and the Paul Holmes programme rejects entirely the suggestion made by Dr Michael Cullen in a press statement
earlier today that Prime Television used false pretences to elicit information from Bayfield High pupils against David
Benson-Pope.
Come and hear what your MPs are going to do about TV standards in NZ.
“Comments I made in relation to TV3 using false pretences to elicit information from former Bayfield High pupils against
David Benson-Pope were incorrect,” Finance Minister Michael Cullen said today.
The first national Women’s Convention in nearly thirty years is being held in Wellington over Queens Birthday weekend.
And if the registration fee is anything to go by, you have to have the salary of a Theresa Gattung to count as a woman
in New Zealand these ...
The numbers of families and households in New Zealand are projected to increase by 24 percent and 28 percent,
respectively, between 2001 and 2021, according to updated 2001-base national family and household projections released
by Statistics New Zealand ...
National's Transport spokesman, Maurice Williamson, says it is time the "dicking around" over Transmission Gully stopped
and Labour cleared the way for the private sector to begin work on it immediately.
When The Wells Run Dry We use more oil than we find, and if producers are fixing their figures the end could be closer
than thought Adam Porter Wednesday May 25, 2005 The Guardian
Sailors from New Zealand warships TE MANA and ENDEAVOUR will showcase New Zealand culture, food and wine to a large and
influential audience during a week long defence diplomacy visit coinciding with New Zealand Day at the Aichi World Expo,
Japan.
New Zealand negotiators at a conference on liability for GMOs have effectively proposed that the four year programme to
develop an international liability regime should aim at agreeing no liability rules at all.
During the 1981 Springbok tour it was observed that New Zealand had a scab, and once picked it lifted, releasing the pus
of racism to flow. The metaphor was again put to test at New Zealand First’s immigration policy launch at Orewa on
Friday. The scene there was best described by another more famous cliché: fear and loathing… in Orewa.
This morning they did it again: the steep kilometers that separate La Paz from EL Alto were completely covered by the
biggest march the Bolivian capital has seen since October 2003. Workers, street merchants, and other groups from El Alto
led the human ...
The Greens have sold out the victims of crime in favour of financial gain for offenders in a “cynical act of political
desperation in backing the disgraceful Prisoners and Victims Claims Bill”, United Future’s law and order spokesman Marc
Alexander said ...
New Zealand human rights record will be further tarnished by the new SAS commitment to Afghanistan to fight alongside
US forces, says Green MP Keith Locke.
French citizens have just said "NO" to the new constitution that was submitted to their vote. I have heard so many
things, in both the French and international media, so many analyses of the "NO" campaign in which I don't see my
opinion included, that ...