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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.
It’s good to be here on Waiheke with you, sharing what is at last a traditional New Zealand summer: sun, sea, families,
home-grown music, fun and general goodwill. It’s also good to be back in Green heartland. Waiheke residents gave the
Greens 21 percent ...
Melbourne, AUSTRALIA – January 18, 2005 -- Marking thirteen consecutive years as the Official Information Technology
Provider to the Australian Open tennis tournament, IBM today announced a range of innovative new and enhanced
initiatives to support ...
This composite was produced from images returned yesterday, January 14, 2005, by the European Space Agency's Huygens
probe during its successful descent to land on Titan. It shows a full 360-degree view around Huygens. The left-hand
side, behind ...
For 50 minutes, from 8:15 a.m. until 9:05 a.m. on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, the Federal Aviation Administration and
the Department of Defense were aware that four domestic U.S. passenger airplanes had been hijacked.
PHUKET, Thailand -- Shops are selling high-quality, color photographs of bloated, blackened corpses of foreign tourists
and Thais who perished in the tsunami, and video compact disks showing waves battering and flooding Thailand's tiny
islands.
George W. Bush’s reëlection was not his only victory last fall. The President and his national-security advisers have
consolidated control over the military and intelligence communities’ strategic analyses and covert operations to a
degree unmatched since ...
A lot has been said in the last week to rekindle the debate on referenda and the Civil Union Bill after a welcome
Christmas truce. Colin James published a deliberative piece on the merits of more referenda and the Supreme Court Bill
and Civil Union ...
In the bizarro world that President Bush lives in, it pays 'literally' to be a miserable failure, a criminal and a
corporate con man. Those are just some of the characteristics of the dastardly men and women who were tapped recently to
fill the vacancies in ...
National Party Foreign Affairs & Trade spokesman Lockwood Smith is congratulating the Government on its renewed focus on a major tsunami aid package.
Every year, Amway rips of millions of people all over the world through a secret pyramid scheme that will no doubt
continue for as long as Bush is in office and controls the Federal Trade Commission.
PHUKET, Thailand -- The popularity of tattoos among foreigners and Thais has helped identify bodies recovered from the
tsunami, especially when it is difficult to match DNA with a relative, or find dental records, according to a U.S.
government forensic ...
McDonald's has emerged as a leading contender in the second New Zealand Children's Food Awards, whose shortlist was
announced at a ceremony at Parliament this afternoon.
Here is the first question the Senate Foreign Relations Committee should pose to Condoleezza Rice Tuesday at her
confirmation hearings for Secretary of State: Is it ''lying'' to say that something definitely is true when it is your
understanding ...
National MP Simon Power says it is a scandal that ACC is considering axing Palmerston North’s rescue helicopter while
sitting on investments worth billions of dollars and making hundreds of millions of dollars profit each year.
The Defense Policy Board (DPB) is a hand-picked group of 30 people that advises Bush administration officials on
matters such as whether and when to go to war, or not.
National Party Deputy Leader Gerry Brownlee says the public deserve to know whether troublesome backbench MP John
Tamihere has allowed the Prime Minister to vet the speech he's due to deliver tomorrow.
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.
On July 6, 2004, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the Inspector General (IG) released a
report stating that former Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Thomas Scully pressured the
agency’s chief ...
As usual Dr. Buchanan has provided an open and frank comment of a potential shift in international relations relative to
an individual nation or a grouping of nations’ donations in aid.
• Venezuela is quickly emerging as a major player in the global energy game due to China’s skyrocketing energy demands
and the escalating instability of oil sources in the Middle East and West Africa.
Hundreds of thousands of the estimated 3 million Afghan still living in exile in Pakistan and Iran will likely return
home this year but the pace of repatriation to their war-ravaged country should not be speeded up, according to the head
of the ...
Addressing a part of his mission that is perhaps as important as even if less headline-grabbing than the fight to
prevent the spread of nuclear weapons, the head of the United Nations atomic watchdog agency is visiting West Africa see
to how nuclear science can help ...
The teacher shortage crisis is unacceptable and highlights the failure of Labour's centralised policy for paying for
teachers, ACT Education spokesman Deborah Coddington said today.
United Future leader Peter Dunne told Eastern Hutt Rotarians tonight that United Future’s total focus this election year
would be on promoting policies to strengthen New Zealand families.
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 ...
President Nestor Kirchner of Argentina has much to celebrate this year as he approaches his second anniversary. His
country has been enjoying heady economic growth rates and approval ratings that continue to top two-thirds of
respondents. This is a particularly ...
After Dick Cheney's tenure at the Pentagon ended, in 1993, he spent much of the next two years deciding whether to run
for President. He formed a political-action committee, and crossed the country making speeches and raising money,
according to ...
Venezuelan authorities last week confirmed allegations made by Colombia’s main guerrilla organisation FARC, that said
that Venezuelan police officers, together with Colombian intelligence forces, captured a high-ranking rebel commander in
downtown Caracas, ...
**Most effective weight-loss diet** Airline water. Coming back from DC in the middle of the year, I drank a tiny paper
cup of the water on tap in the plane, spent the next eight weeks running to the bathroom, and lost ten pounds.
ENDS