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Published: Tue 9 Mar 2004 08:42 AM
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Yesterday’s top 30 rating items on Scoop were...
1: Why Not Just Genetically Engineer Women For Milk?
MAdGE (Mothers Against Genetic Engineering in Food and the Environment) today launched a highly controversial billboard campaign in Auckland and Wellington to provoke public debate about the social and cultural ethics of genetic engineering in New Zealand.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PO0310/S00003.htm
2: Images: Lord Of The Rings Exhibition At Te Papa
In anticipation of the release of The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, the central instalment in writer/director/producer Peter Jackson's epic trilogy based on the J.R.R. Tolkien masterpiece, Te Papa proudly announces a world exclusive and a bold ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/CU0210/S00234.htm
3: Full Text Of Human Rights Record Of The US In 2003
China issued the Human Rights Record of the United States in 2003 Monday, March 1, in response to the Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2003 issued by the US on Feb. 25. The Human Rights Record is the fifth Chinese report in response to ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0403/S00108.htm
4: Raelian Women March Topless Against 'Myth Of God'
Raelian Women Will Commemorate Women's Day By Marching With Their Breasts Exposed To Protest Against The Repressive Myth Of God
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/CU0403/S00042.htm
5: Cheaper Broadband Has Landed
Telecom Xtra today launches its new range of residential JetStream plans, aimed at allowing more New Zealanders to experience the benefits of broadband at much more affordable prices.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/SC0403/S00028.htm
6: Bush and Arroyo: Big Brother, Little Sister
The similarities between George W Bush and Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, and the electioneering underway in both countries are both surreal and striking.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0403/S00085.htm
7: Don Brash Responds To His Critics - Speech
DON BRASH RESPONDS TO HIS CRITICS An address to the Northern Club, Auckland, 4 March 2004
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0403/S00139.htm
8: Cheney Covered-Up Pakistani Nuclear Proliferation
When news of Pakistan’s clandestine program involving its top nuclear scientist selling rogue nations, such as Iran and North Korea, blueprints for building an atomic bomb was uncovered last month, the world’s leaders waited, with baited breath, to see ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0403/S00102.htm
9: Venezuela: Annan Vows UN Support To Stop Violence
Voicing dismay at the violence that has rocked Venezuela over the past week, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today pledged the world body's backing in achieving a peaceful resolution.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0403/S00099.htm
10: Vietnam and Laos Troops Attack Civilians & Rebels
Joint Military Offensive by Laos, Vietnam Directed Against Hmong People Results in Hundreds of Civilians and Rebels Killed, Wounded
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0403/S00087.htm
11: Myanmar: UN Ends Reconciliation Trip
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s Special Envoy has http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2004/sgsm9183.doc.htm concluded a visit this week to Myanmar, where he continued efforts to facilitate national reconciliation and democratization based on the participation of all parties ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0403/S00097.htm
12: Waitangi Tribunal report “disappointing” - Cullen
Deputy Prime Minister Michael Cullen today described the Waitangi Tribunal report on foreshores and seabeds as "disappointing."
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0403/S00151.htm
13: Prebble Speech: Where ACT Leads, Others Follow
Hon Richard Prebble's Speech to ACT's Tenth Annual Conference Hotel Grand Chancellor, 161 Cashel Street, Christchurch 10:20 am, Sunday 7 March 2004
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0403/S00144.htm
14: Sexual violence depiction causes audience collapse
Chief Censor Bill Hastings and his censors from the Office of Film and Literature Classification Office have granted so many general R18 classifications to films containing gratuitous sexual violence combined with explicit sex, that one wonders what’s next ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PO0303/S00182.htm
15: A Chance To Meet Mary-Kate And Ashley In LA
The ZM radio network in association with the mary-kateandashley brand is searching for New Zealand's biggest Mary-Kate and Ashley fan! The winner and two companions will get to meet the most famous teenagers on the planet in their home city, Los ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/BU0310/S00118.htm
16: Maori Underclass Has Emerged
Monitoring of food banks nationally over a three year period has revealed the development and growth of a Maori underclass, according to a recent report of the New Zealand Council of Christian Social Services.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PO0403/S00061.htm
17: Public Address 08/03/04 - Hits And Myths
Clearly, it is going to be a very long election campaign. Helen Clark has made her "bring it on" speech, Richard Prebble has outlined the case for Act, and Don Brash has sounded the horn of triumph...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0403/S00109.htm
18: Call for Clark to sack Tamihere
Prime Minister Helen Clark should sack Associate Maori Affairs Minister John Tamihere for breaching Cabinet collective responsibility, says National Deputy Leader Gerry Brownlee.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0403/S00162.htm
19: Swedish Giant to Secure Bid for NZ Technology Co.
Global security products group ASSA ABLOY has signed an agreement to acquire successful New Zealand technology-based company, Security Merchants, for an undisclosed sum, paving the way for the mainstream introduction of high technology security products.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/BU0403/S00096.htm
20: Race-based bonuses must go
Work and Income should stop paying bonuses to staff based on the ethnicity of their clients, says National's social services spokesperson Katherine Rich.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0403/S00148.htm
21: Tribunal Report Adds To Confusion
Rt Hon Winston Peters says the Waitangi Tribunal report on the foreshore and seabed simply adds to the confusion and concern surrounding the issue.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0403/S00152.htm
22: St Molesworth: 10 Reasons PM Didn't Attend Oscars
Top 10 reasons why Helen Clark didn't make it to the Oscars
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0403/S00080.htm
23: Reclaiming International Women's Day
"International Women's Day arose out of struggles by women factory workers and was first proclaimed as IWD by the Marxist Third International" said Anti-Capitalist Alliance spokeswoman Willa Bermingham.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PO0403/S00057.htm
24: robson-on-politics
Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh and the team did us all proud at the Oscars with a great promotional job putting New Zealand on the map with our own culture, separate from Australia. Good on them for mentioning New Zealand and Kiwis so many times and for ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0403/S00153.htm
25: Further NZ Defence contribution to Afghanistan
Prime Minister Helen Clark and Defence Minister Mark Burton today announced the deployment of additional New Zealand Defence Force personnel to Afghanistan and the Gulf region.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0403/S00169.htm
26: Israel Force Continues Destruction In Gaza
TULKAREM, Palestine -- The Israeli occupying forces (IOF) continued its ongoing military offensive against the Palestinian citizens, hours only after a massacre in Gaza Strip that left 14 Palestinians dead and 83 others wounded.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0403/S00086.htm
27: Catherine Judd Speech In Praise Of Individuals
Welcome, everyone, to our 10^th anniversary conference. I'm pleased to advise that, once again, reports of ACT's death have been grossly exaggerated.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0403/S00146.htm
28: Scoop Images: Benmore Dam Spilling
Photographer Norman Mackay writes: ''A couple of good photos of the Benmore Dam 'spilling'. Its not a common sight, and few New Zealanders are on hand when it happens. It was a beautiful day and the conditions for good photography were near perfect.''
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0403/S00100.htm
29: Admiral Vishnu Bhagwat: The Intelligence Business
Had ‘Operation Iraqi Freedom’ not gone sour, had the oil begun to flow to expectations for the ‘oil majors’ and Afghanistan not in disarray and near anarchy, it is doubtful if the kind of uncomfortable and noisy debate that is reflected in the media, would ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0403/S00098.htm
30: Protest on International Women's Day 2004
Protest on International Women's Day 2004! Why? Because women are on the front lines all around the world.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PO0403/S00036.htm
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