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Published: Fri 17 Dec 2004 09:18 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: TVNZ staff furious over Bailey affair
Television New Zealand staff who got a pay rise of just 1.5 per cent this year are promising a “full-frontal attack” in the wake of news reader Judy Bailey’s 77 per cent rise.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PO0412/S00181.htm
3: Ohio Recount Affidavit - Richard Hayes Phillips
I, RICHARD HAYES PHILLIPS, do swear and affirm the following: 1. I hold a Ph.D. in geomorphology from the University of Oregon. I am a professional hydrologist and am well versed in standard techniques of statistical analysis, with special expertise ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0412/S00167.htm
4: Premium NZ wine leaking into spy network
Marlborough’s award-winning wine Spy Valley has attracted growing worldwide attention this year because of its undercover name.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/BU0412/S00235.htm
5: Bolton’s Appointment Would Destroy State Dept Cred
• With court confidante Condoleezza Rice soon to be at the helm of the State Department, the possible ascension of ultraconservative political appointee John Bolton will stress the Bush administration’s conversion of the agency from a relatively passive ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0412/S00225.htm
6: ACT confirm they would sell NZ's crown jewel
ACT has again demonstrated just how out of touch they are with ordinary New Zealanders by confirming they would privatise our pristine marine space.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0412/S00413.htm
7: Muriel Newman's year of mistakes continues
Muriel Newman is ending the year just as she started – wrong, says Social Development and Employment Minister Steve Maharey.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0412/S00412.htm
8: Questions & Answers for Oral Answer 14 Dec. 2004
1. Police, Minister—Confidence 2. Primary Health Organisations—Progress 3. Broadcasting, Minister—Confidence 4. Schools—Enrolment Scheme Legislation 5. Tertiary Education Commission—Funding Outcomes Question No. 6 to Minister 6. Aotea (Great Barrier) Marine ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0412/S00366.htm
9: New Study: More Absentee Votes than Voters in Ohio
A careful review of the absentee vote in one Ohio county revealed that many more absentee votes were cast than there were absentee voters identified.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0412/S00154.htm
10: Darfur Ops Suspended Due To Continuing Fighting
The United Nations has suspended relief operations in a southern sector of Sudan’s strife-torn Darfur region because of continued fighting and a reported build up of rival armed groups that has raised serious concerns in the humanitarian community.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0412/S00226.htm
11: Please explain Prime Minister
"The Prime Minister must explain why the relationship with Australia has deteriorated to the point that we are being left out of decisions affecting our own coastal waters," says National Party Leader Don Brash.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0412/S00416.htm
12: Chuckman Cartoon: White House Christmas Card 2004
Cartoon by John Chuckman
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0412/S00165.htm
13: Public Address 15/12/04 - Television Comedy
"Good evening and haere mai, talofa lava, ni hao, welcome, welcome, welcome to Campbell's Gamble, the show TV3 have given me to stop me going to TVNZ. On tonight's show, Carol Hirschfeld continues her 99-part series about Ahmed Zaoui and it turns out there ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0412/S00177.htm
14: 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
15: TVNZ resignations all show
"The resignations offered by three Television New Zealand board directors and their rejection by the Government is a predictable sham aimed at protecting Labour's political mates," says National Party State Services spokesman Murray McCully.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0412/S00425.htm
16: American Democracy Hangs By A Thread In Ohio
As the whole world watches, American democracy may be hanging by a thread in Ohio.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0412/S00187.htm
17: Images: Departing LOTR Stars Meet Their Planes
The Lord of the Ring's stars come face to face with themselves on the side of Air NZ planes as they bid New Zealand goodbye at Wellington Airport before boarding the Air New Zealand 767 emblazoned with giant images of the characters Aragorn and Arwen.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/BU0312/S00024.htm
18: Ohio's Election Challenged by Recount and Lawsuit
Ohio's Official Presidential Election Results Challenged by Recount and Lawsuit Filed in State Supreme Court - Interview with Cliff Arnebeck, lawyer representing the Alliance for Democracy, conducted by Scott Harris
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0412/S00175.htm
19: Richard Ehrlich: Sex Change Operations In Thailand
BANGKOK, Thailand -- After a former U.S. Army corporal became a grandfather, he stopped secretly wearing women's clothes, flew to Bangkok for a sex change operation and emerged as a lesbian.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0412/S00176.htm
20: Westpac To Locally Incorporate In New Zealand
The announcement follows advice from the Governor of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ), Dr Alan Bollard, that the RBNZ had rejected Westpac’s buttressed branch proposal. The Westpac board has agreed to comply with the RBNZ’s local incorporation policy.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/BU0412/S00245.htm
21: U.S. Rep. Conyers: What have they to hide?
Yesterday, it came to the attention of the House Judiciary Committee Democratic Staff that efforts to audit poll records in Greene County, Ohio are being obstructed by County Election officials and/or Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell. According ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0412/S00191.htm
22: Manuel Valenzuela: The Rise of the Amerikan Nazis
The rise to power of the Amerikan Nazis, and the subsequent dive into the cesspool of fascism the nation is now experiencing, was assured with the ascension to the White House of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney in November 2000.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0412/S00163.htm
23: Margaret Wilson has enormous experience
Only those suffering from amnesia or ignorance would claim that Attorney-General Margaret Wilson doesn't have enough "experience" to be the next Parliamentary Speaker, Progressive Party leader Jim Anderton today.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0412/S00426.htm
24: Options Canvassed On Fuel Cell Field Trial Sites
Powerco and Ceramic Fuel Cells Limited (CFCL) have announced that they will confirm the sites for the first fuel cell field trials for New Zealand early in 2005.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/BU0412/S00234.htm
25: Damian Clarke: Freedom
This is the wording of the waiver of rights which has been added to the I-94W form of the Immigration and Naturalization Service- a division of the U.S Department of Justice. I was expected to sign this when I entered the United States. How odd. Laws ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0412/S00167.htm
26: Complete US Exit Poll Data Confirms Net Suspicions
Scoop.co.nz is delighted to be able today to publish a full set of 4pm exit poll data for the first time on the Internet since the US election. The data emerged this evening NZT in a post on the Democratic Underground website under the forum name ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0411/S00227.htm
27: This travel advice has been revised and reissued.
New Zealanders should defer non-essential and tourist travel to Indonesia (including Bali, Batam and Bintan) until further notice. New Zealanders in Indonesia who are concerned for their safety should consider departing.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PO0412/S00189.htm
28: Guest Opinion: A Modest Consumer Activism Proposal
I had a wickedly simple idea the other day, you know, one of those ''I wonder if anybody's ever thought of this'' kinds of ideas. It came to me about a week after November 2nd, that most educational of days, when those of us who happened to be ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0412/S00168.htm
29: Suggestions for sharpening up TVNZ
United Future’s broadcasting spokesman Marc Alexander says the debacle over Judy Bailey’s massive salary increase shows the broadcaster’s bosses need a short sharp shock of commercial reality.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0412/S00414.htm
30: Reserve Bank Confirms Westpac to incorporate in NZ
The Reserve Bank today confirmed that Westpac has decided to incorporate in New Zealand. Once this process is completed, all systemically important banks operating in New Zealand will be locally incorporated.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/BU0412/S00246.htm
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