Today's Top Scoops - 23 April 2008
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LEAD STORY------------
YOU ARE IN A MAZE OF TWISTY LITTLE PASSAGES, ALL ALIKE
> go left
A HUGE GREEN FIERCE SNAKE BARS THE WAY!
> kill snake
WITH WHAT? YOUR BARE HANDS?
> slap snake with 'slippery' tag
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ALSO:Dror N Corter - Scoop Satire: Sit-Down Toilets In Our Prisons! [2]
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NZ POLITICS------------
Social Crisis: Help Is At Hand For Problem Gamblers - Business sized 'HELP' cards with updated contact details for both local and national problem gambling support
services have been designed and will be within arms reach. More >> [1]
Immigration: Prebble Kept Busy In Last Months In Job - The State Services Commissioner, Mark Prebble, has announced that he would report to Ministers on the Department of
Labour's response to concerns about the handling by the Department of matters relating to family members of the head of
the Immigration Service. More >> [1]
ALSO:Gordon Campbell - : For relatives, the rules could be relative [2] National - Confidence in Immigration reserved [3] National - PM's move on immigration claims curious [4] National - Confidence in Immigration reserved [5] Gordon Copeland - Truth not white wash sought on immigration inquiry [6] Public Service Association - PSA Welcomes SSC Investigation [7]
Scoop Multimedia: PM's Post Cabinet Press Conference - Heat On The Prez - Video + Audio of NZ Prime Minister Helen Clark's post Cabinet press conference for Parliamentary press gallery
journalists held this afternoon. More >> [1]
ALSO:AGENDA - Mike Williams Interview [2] National - Confused? More like cunning [3] National - Mike Williams must go [4]
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BUSINESS SCIENCE & TECH------------
Coal: Clean Cola Gets NZBCS Push - The New Zealand Business Council for Sustainable Development, whose 71 member companies' $44 billion in annual sales. More >> [1]
Science: Butterfly Bafflement Causes Boffin Bemusement - Trustees of the Monarch Butterfly NZ Trust are shocked to see a photograph of the 'wrong' Red Admiral butterfly
featuring in the current issue of The Listener. More >> [1]
OSH: Industry Sent Message About Workplace Safety - The Department of Labour says the court decision yesterday ordering an employer to pay $90,000 for failing to ensure
its employees weren't exposed to hazards sends a clear message to industry. More>> [1]
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WORLD------------
Champions: UN Honours Seven Leaders In The Fight Against Climate Change - The United Nations today acknowledged seven luminaries in the fight against global warming as this year's Champions
of the Earth. This year's UNEP Special Prize was bestowed upon Prime Minister Helen Clark of New Zealand, which has
blazed the trail towards climate neutrality and hopes to meet the goal of 90 per cent renewable energy by 2025. More >> [1]
Food Warning: Global Food Crisis 'Silent Tsunami' Threatening Over 100 Million People - "This is the new face of hunger - the millions of people who were not in the urgent hunger category six months ago
but now are," said WFP Executive Director Josette Sheeran, in London. The food price crisis requires a global response,
she said. More >> [1]
RECENTLYHaiti Facing 'Explosive Situation' - UN [2] UN Economic Council To Meet On Growing Food Crisis [3] Steps Needed To Fight Growing Global Food Crisis [4] Caritas warns on international food crisis [5] Global Unions Demand IFI Policy Shift In Slowdown [6] G8 Must Press For Action On Food Crisis - UK's PM [7] UN Wants Urgent Action On Spiralling Food Prices [8] Global Rice Production To Rise By 1.8% In 2008 [9] Neglect Of Agriculture In Asia Equals Poverty [10]
Photography: Bruno Manser's Penan And Rainforest Photos Go Online - The pictures taken by the environmentalist whose attention was focused on protecting the primeval forests uniquely
document the threatened rainforest culture of the Penan in the Malaysian state of Sarawak and his long-standing battle
to prevent deforestation. More >> [1]
"Our Part": Enlisting Powerfull Allies To Fight Climate Change - Climate change has become the defining issue of our time, set to transform the very way we live. The United Nations
Development Programme (UNDP) announced today that Chinese actress/celebrity Zhou Xun was appointed as its first National
Goodwill Ambassador (NGWA) with a special focus on promoting environmental sustainability. "Our Part" is meant to tell
people that small lifestyle changes can collectively make a big difference. More >> [1]
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COMMENT------------
Gordon Campbell: Clinton's Last Stand - OK, in the Pennsylvania vote, Hillary Clinton should still get home by between 5 and 10 points - which would mean a
continuation of the stalemate. Anything more gives her the big victory she needs - and anything less continues her
eclipse... More >> [1]
ALSO: Steve Weissman - Baiting Obama [2] Sherwood Ross - Obama For President [3]
Michael Collins: Election Fraud in Pennsylvania? - The Pennsylvania primary could lock up the Democratic nomination process once and for all. The campaign that
Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean asked to be finished by July 1 could be over this Tuesday. Regardless
of your candidate ... More >> [1]
ALSO: Brad Friedman - Pennsylvania Primary: Democracy of the Gods [2]
Uri Avnery: The Lion and the Gazelle - TONIGHT THE JEWS all over the world will celebrate the Seder, the unique ceremony that unites Jews everywhere in the
defining Jewish myth: the Exodus from Egypt. More >> [1]
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LIFESTYLE------------
Theatre: Play About Helen Clark Obsessive In AK - Join the overeducated, underachieving Richard Meros as he charges through the pop-cultural slipstream to prove that
Helen Clark needs him! More >> [1]
Artiness: Decorative Arts Go Dark in New Exhibition - Etiquette for the Homesick is an exhibition by Wellington artists Genevieve Packer and Caroline McQuarrie that puts
the domestic arts in a new light. More >> [1]
Top Qwality Culture: Youth Get Opera For A Song - The NBR New Zealand Opera's season of the great romantic opera La Bohème opens in Wellington on Saturday 10 May and
in Auckland on Thursday 29 May, and anyone aged under 25 can attend for just $25. More >> [1]
And those were the Top Scoops on this day, 23 April 2008
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