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Yesterday's top 20 rating items on Scoop were...
Last week saw the tired spectacle of student 'radicals' occupying university registry buildings, demanding that other
people pay their fees. Student occupations are nothing new, but as a student politician myself this year I felt very
angry and embarassed ...
Auckland based company Acclaim Datasystems has developed what is believed to be the worlds first "Mind-Reading" web
site. In conjunction with Prof. Fredric Olinaboute, one of the world's leading experts in Compu-biocyberthinknetics,
Acclaim ...
Last week within the context of the social control of selfishness, I discussed the role of the Church and how it was
undermined by the Protestant Reformation, and about Adam Smith as one of the new thinkers of the 18th century who
theorised the market ...
The mind-boggling array of computer innovations has provided fertile ground for an April Fools joke by Compaq.
Last week Greenpeace went to the Nestle Factory to make their concerns clear about Genetic Engineered food. Nestle had
admitted it could not tell whether some of its food contained genetically engineered organisms.
The Australian government last week raised the stakes in a festering dispute between it and the UN over Australia's
failure to address UN concerns over mandatory sentencing and the position of Aborigines in Australia generally.
AUCKLAND, New Zealand, April 3 RNewswire-AsiaNet/ -- Quik Internet New Zealand, the franchised Internet service
provider, today announced it is the first Internet provider to bundle its services as a prepaid product. Quik Internet
NZ has formed ...
The Green Party said today a weekly trip to the fish and chip shop could be hazardous to your health, following a report
issued by the Ministry of Health this week.
The Prime Minister Helen Clark has this morning admitted for the first time that there is evidence of financial
irregularity at the Waipareira Trust and is attempting to distance herself from MP, John Tamihere.
Telecom New Zealand is threatening to pull the plug on New Zealand's first completely FREE Internet Service Provider on
Monday (April 3), the day the new service will be launching to the public.
The Green Party has become the third most popular political force in the country according to the latest opinion poll.
The following pictures - supplied to Scoop anonymously - show actress Liv Tyler in action during the shooting of some
scenes for the Lord Of The Rings trilogy. The pictures were taken in the South Island near Wanaka.
The new free Internet Service Provider i4free today applied for an injunction to stop Telecom from cutting lines
servicing the new company.
The Employment Relations Bill is guaranteed to provide a level of fireworks Parliament hasn't seen since the mother of
all budgets. Written by a university lecturer and a unionist of radical middle class extraction it would probably
provide a useful ...
The gods seemed to be on the side of West Coasters today when heavy rain stopped as 5,000 people marched in Greymouth to
protest over Government's indigenous forest policies, to call for Labour MP Damien O'Connor's resignation and to pass
resolutions. ...
"If present trends continue, by 2010 half of European and nearly three quarters of the Maori infants under 12 months
will be in families where there is no father. Unless we turn things around, we as a nation are going to be in serious
trouble". So said ...
National understands that the Cabinet will tomorrow consider major changes to the way in which matrimonial, de facto
and same-sex property rights will be handled, Opposition Leader Jenny Shipley said today
The OPEC decision to increase oil production by 6% should have a dramatic effect on New Zealand's oil prices, but is
OPEC now the dominant player in a dynamic global oil market? John Howard writes.
Libertarianz Deputy Leader Richard McGrath today backed moves by the Catholic Church to financially support women who
might otherwise choose to abort their pregnancies.
Cabinet decided today to back a bill extending existing matrimonial property rights legislation to cover de facto
relationships - including those between gay and lesbian couples.