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Clever technology that has its origins in the dairy industry is showing promise in the medical arena, helping surgeons
make informed assessments during liver operations.
A new group called 'Mothers Against Genetic Engineering'(Madge) did their first action at the Richmond Rd Woolworths
Supermarket Saturday where they went into the supermarket, filled shopping trolleys with food, took them to the checkout
and then demanded to ...
Chimps, whether Pan troglydytes or paniscus, have quite a lot of social and political couth (try reading Franz de Waal.)
I suggest to Russell, respectuflly, the header should read "The President Is A Baboon."
We have distributed 100 copies of the recently banned film Baise-Moi in central Wellington. The time of distribution and
drop off points have been chosen in order to minimise the potential for children to aquire these CDs.
I'd be less than Irish if I didn't notice an unusual word popping its head up over the babblescape three times in as
many days. Not that "stout" is all that unusual a word - why, I saw it 30 times in one beer chiller just last weekend.
Hey, ...
Police Minister George Hawkins and the Prime Minister should immediately repudiate Al Morrison's claim on National
Radio today that the police will suffer "repercussions" for pursuing an enquiry into Helen Clark's art forgery says
ACT's Justice spokesman ...
"Helen Clark's rejection of a taxpayer bail-out for disgraced Maori TV head John Davy is a graphic example of
unprincipled and inconsistent thinking," says Lindsay Mitchell, Libertarianz spokesman for the deregulation of welfare.
This week I gave a speech to the Victoria University School of Public Law setting out a detailed historical argument how
the Treaty created one sovereignty and one standard of citizenship. The speech explains the background to British
thinking at ...
A rural commodity boom for the past three years has given the Labour government strong tax revenue. Dr Cullen is now
following an old PR formula - lower expectations with talk of a boring Budget, while spraying the electorate with money.
Double the effect ...
The instability of the Alliance parties is no reason to call an early election, National Leader Bill English said today.
Around a quarter of New Zealand’s population are mothers, and each year 56,000 women start or add to their family by
giving birth, according to a new set of figures released on Mother’s Day by Women’s Affairs Minister Laila Harré.
Thank God our cricketer's are home safe after the Karachi suicide bombing of their hotel, but Scoop's Maree Howard
raises questions about whether they should have gone in the first place, and whether they were placed in danger by
inadequate intelligence ...
So, a bad week for the international far right, then. One shot in the Netherlands, another disabused of his dreams of
victory in France.The French people, as we all know, gave themselves a fright, had a bit of a crisis over it, then
stormed the polls ...
The Society for the Promotion of Community Standards Inc. was directed on Friday 10 May by the President of the Film and
Literature Board of Review, Ms Claudia Elliott, to serve the following notice on the Office of Film and Literature
Classification ...
Jim Anderton says a complaint against him to Parliament’s privileges committee was another example of the Opposition
wasting public resources on a sleaze campaign.
Stonehenge, four thousand year old monument to the Sun, provides an appropriate setting for this delightful snapshot of
the Sun's children gathering in planet Earth's sky.
So much for the National Party wanting to listen. They can’t even hear lyrics on albums right.
Images from the Brumbies vs Blues Super 12 match at Canberra Stadium Brumbies Friday night. The Brumbies won 46 points
to 25. Photos by Mark Graham .
New Zealand First Leader Rt Hon Winston Peters is asking who will be next to be boaged after 15 year veteran Warren Kyd
was boaged last night.
Auckland, Monday 13 May: Much of the market place is now free of genetic engineering, because some of the largest food
companies in New Zealand have taken steps to remove GE from their products.
Prime Minister and Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage Helen Clark announced today that the government is
contributing $26.5 million over five years towards the development of ‘world class’ facilities at the Auckland War
Memorial Museum.
"It is a conservation tragedy that clear felling of indigenous forests in Southland is to be allowed for at least
another seven years," Dr Nick Smith, National's Environment spokesperson, said in response to the Government's proposed
'solution' ...
In that interview Pim was quoted saying that he feels Islam is a "backward culture" for ridiculing homosexuality and
proclaiming homosexuals as "lower than pigs". Pim was openly gay.
Obscure National MP Gerry Brownlee lacks the grace to admit when he is wrong, Alliance whip Grant Gillon says.
Prime Minister Helen Clark will tomorrow evening open a symposium in Wellington on international terrorism and its
implications for New Zealand and its neighbours.
Within a few months, the events of Sept. 11th, 2001 became but an echo of the events that followed. War in Afghanistan,
anthrax, unprecedented powers of detention: the public mind moves from one shock to another, appearing to accept the
government’s ...
The announcement of another $700,000 for the Office of Ethnic Affairs is yet another sign of the true cost of this
government's immigration policies, ACT leader Richard Prebble says.
It is time to open our eyes to the truth of the political system we live under regardless of which party is in power.
New Zealanders have been duped and deluded into accepting the authority and control of nothing less than a "Legalised
Mafia" that ...
I've just heard of Pim Fortuyn for the first time.He is, or was, a Dutch politician. He's just been shot dead.
Attorney-General Margaret Wilson today announced a range of budget initiatives aimed at promoting New Zealanders’
rights, both in their everyday lives and at times of vulnerability.
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