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Published: Wed 2 Jun 2004 10:22 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: Eating Media Lunch - Returns Tomorrow (June 1)
Eating Media Lunch returns for a second season on June 1. With its mixture of satire and comment, the show hit a chord with New Zealand viewers in it’s debut 2003 season, attracting that rare mixture of critical acclaim and high ratings. ( The season finale ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/CU0405/S00191.htm
4: Al Gore Address on Iraq Policy - May 26, 2004
George W. Bush promised us a foreign policy with humility. Instead, he has brought us humiliation in the eyes of the world.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0405/S00247.htm
5: Scambusters launch website
A group of traders on New Zealand’s largest online auction venue, Trade Me, have launched their own scam prevention website, www.scambusters.co.nz.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/BU0405/S00335.htm
6: 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
7: Venezuela’s Most Challenging Moment Is Here
• Recall validation petition ends today as country heads for a count-down over whether a referendum vote will be announced on June 4.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0406/S00003.htm
8: Porirua abuse claims being investigated
The Crown is currently investigating 62 claims that have been filed in relation to allegations made about treatment at various psychiatric institutions including Porirua.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0405/S00699.htm
9: Full Coverage: Nicolas Berg Beheading
Firas Al-Atraqchi: Zarqawi Be Damned - Nicholas Berg screamed. He screamed when he saw the sword brandished in the hands of one of his captors. He screamed when he was pushed down on the ground and his held pulled back, ready for the slaughter. ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0405/S00151.htm
10: Eating Media Lunch: Anita McNaught IVs Robert Fisk
Anita McNaught: You based yourself in the Middle East 25-30 years ago… in terms of writing about history being forged, you could scarcely have put yourself in a better spot, could you?
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0406/S00009.htm
11: Public Address 01/05/04 - Redemption
Last year, I actually convinced myself that John Mitchell's apparent inability to speak in sentences was simply a defensive ruse. The All Black coach, I reasoned, must simply be baffling the pundits and critics on his players' behalf...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0406/S00003.htm
12: Nuclear Terrorism Within America a Certainty
A nuclear attack by terrorists against the United States is inevitable, according to an American international relations expert visiting the University of Canterbury.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/ED0406/S00003.htm
13: Whirinaki power plant adds to electricity supply
Energy Minister Pete Hodgson today opens the government’s new 155 megawatt reserve power station at Whirinaki, near Napier.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0406/S00001.htm
14: Wasserman: Will Bush Become America's Pinochet?
Will Bush The Beheader Use Terrorism To Become America's Pinochet? by Harvey Wasserman May 28, 2004 From: http://www.freepress.org/columns/display/7/2004/897
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0405/S00293.htm
15: Telecom Mobile And Boost-Tel Target Kiwi Youth
Telecom Mobile and Boost Tel are getting together to launch a dedicated youth brand offering – a New Zealand first.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/BU0108/S00114.htm
16: National Geographic: End Of The Cheap Oil
"The END of SUBURBIA: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of the American Dream" is the world's first documentary that explores the end of the age of cheap oil, and what it means for America.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0405/S00273.htm
17: Seven thousand primary teachers to receive laptops
Additional government funding of $12 million will see some 7000 primary school teachers benefit from a further extension of the Laptops for Teachers scheme, Education Minister Trevor Mallard announced today.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0406/S00003.htm
18: Kelsey Attacks NZ's Role In Pacific WTO Accessions
Speaking at a World Trade Organisation symposium in Geneva on Thursday 27th May, Professor Jane Kelsey from Auckland University and ARENA (Action, Research and Education Network of Aotearoa) condemned the torturous process of accession as ‘one of the ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PO0405/S00335.htm
19: Chuckman Cartoon: Blair's Just Reward
UK PM Tony Blair recieves an award from the Chimp in Chief - Cartoon by John Chuckman
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0405/S00291.htm
20: "This power station is an insurance policy ..."
Two weeks ago today I pushed a couple of keys on a laptop to start 55 new wind turbines turning.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0406/S00013.htm
21: Israel Assassinates Two Palestinians in Gaza
Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) extra-judicially assassinated two Palestinian activists in the southern Gaza City neighborhood of Al-Zaitoun early Sunday, killing a bystander and injuring at least seven others, three of them critically, when an Israeli US-made ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0405/S00267.htm
22: Foreign Exchange Trading Achieves High Returns
Very favourable returns are being achieved by a new foreign exchange trading service - FX Invest - a 'smart investment' alternative which trades foreign exchange on behalf of its clients who are mostly small to medium investors. Trades are based on long-established ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/BU0406/S00008.htm
23: PM's Presser: A Wide Ranging Discussion
In this edition: - Saudi Arabia, terrorism and the safety of New Zealand citizens - Historical claims of patient abuse in NZ mental institutions - Dr Don Brash's Trip To The United States - Upcoming D-Day Commemorations - High oil prices - TV3 BSA ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0406/S00005.htm
24: Images: Angry Fishers Attack Nelson Protest
Angry fishing workers tear down fishing nets during a Greenpeace protest at the Orange Roughy Management Company headquarters in Nelson today. Greenpeace had been conducting a peaceful protest about the destruction wrecked on deep sea life by bottom trawl ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PO0405/S00337.htm
25: Some In National Want ACT To Disappear
Dr Muriel Newman - Speech -Final ACT leadership candidates' meeting, New Plymouth
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0406/S00006.htm
26: Miller: A Return to Christchurch’s Violent Streets
Whether one attributes the level of violence and abuse that occurred in Christchurch following the Super 12 final earlier this month to the result or not, there can be no denying the fact that this city has a serious problem with alcohol and its related ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0406/S00002.htm
27: Douglas O'Rourke: Of Patriots And Fools
As Americans celebrate their most somber Memorial Day in a generation, consider that while true patriots like Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice, Don Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Lewis ''Scooter'' Libby, Douglas Feith, Stephen Cambone, Richard Perle, Eliot Abrams, ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0406/S00001.htm
28: Time To Boycott Central Auckland Businesses
I have been astonished at the vicious comments made by some business sector lobbyists at the ARC decision to re-introduce business differentials into the rating system.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/AK0406/S00008.htm
29: UQ Wire: The Deep Game
My article from last week, ' The Iranian Spy in the House of Bush,' which took a close look at accusations leveled at the White House's favorite Iraqi Ahmad Chalabi, generated a number of interesting responses from truthout readers.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0406/S00007.htm
30: Pacific Forum Economic Ministers Meeting, Rotorua
Progress toward economic reform and sustainable development will dominate the eighth annual Forum Economic Ministers Meeting (FEMM 2004) in Rotorua next week, Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Michael Cullen said today.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0406/S00002.htm
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