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Yesterday’s top 30 rating items on Scoop were...
As of June 2004, the Government Accounting Office estimated that more than $1 billion in taxpayer money had been wasted
due to illegal overcharges by contractors in Iraq, since the onset of the war. Furthermore, experts say that once the
total is calculated ...
"With Gary Mauser attending the ANZSOC conference in Wellington this week, politicians, justice officials and police
will be able to receive first-hand information as to why gun registration is the ultimate in political folly," claims
Peter Linton, Libertarianz ...
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Iran has ''a legal right'' to enrich uranium for peaceful purposes, but an attack by the U.S. or
Israel would probably push the Iranians to build a nuclear bomb, former top U.N. weapons inspector Dr. Hans Blix said.
New Zealand's meningococcal disease story, as unravelled through analysis of previously secret documents obtained under
the Official Information Act, reveals that the New Zealand government, media and public have been mislead and
manipulated by officials, ...
With the Royal proclamation of February 1, 2005, Nepal has once again been thrust onto the international arena,
grabbing headlines and courting controversy. The image portrayed has all the elements of international disapproval,
dissention, and emotionally ...
The Meningococcal Gold Rush article published on the scoop.co.nz website shows a poor understanding of the rigorous
processes and procedures used in New Zealand and overseas to develop, license and administer vaccines.
Photo Essay: A Day At The Sevens Photos by ABOVE Ground Level courtesy of Wellington Rugby
OPENING OF STONEHENGE AOTEAROA AND THE LAUNCH OF E=mc² The Story of the Universe
1. 111 Emergencies—Highway Patrol Units 2. 111 Emergencies—Rural Communities 3. Working for Families Package—Results 4.
National Certificate of Educational Achievement—Inconsistency 5. Sentencing—Serious and Recidivist Offenders Question
No. 4 to Minister 6. Land—Public ...
The Principal Defence Chaplain Julian Wagg admits that the Unknown Warrior may not have gone to heaven. In a telephone
interview on Feb. 8, the principal defence chaplain Julian Wagg reluctantly admitted that the Unknown Soldier may not
have gone to heaven ...
1. Hon BILL ENGLISH to the Associate Minister of Education: Does he still believe that he has moved into the compulsory
education sector at a time when all the big issues are "off the table", and does he stand by his statement yesterday ...
Autism rates across the country have grown over 1000% since 1990, according to the National Autism Association. Autism
was first diagnosed as a disorder in the 1950s. The symptoms described then are essentially the same as those used to
diagnose autism ...
It time for the media to inform the public of the reasons why Merck and other drug companies have been trying to hide
the damage caused by mercury in childhood vaccines.
Amnesty International is concerned about the recent arrests and detention of political activists in Egypt, as the
ruling party and opposition parties enter into a "national dialogue" on political reform ahead of the presidential and
parliamentary elections ...
I arrived in Sri Lanka on 21 January and will arrive home on 16 February. As I considered coming over, firstly aid
agencies, then the NZ-Sri Lanka friendship societies I spoke to, were lukewarm about an enthusiastic volunteer coming
over.
Prime Television will be the exclusive free-to–air broadcaster of this weekend’s BAFTA Awards ceremony.
New Zealand farmers urgently need to work together to protect their long-term access to seeds and the right to save
seeds for planting each year.
The Government is destroying New Zealand's clean, green reputation on the world stage, says Green Co-leader Jeanette
Fitzsimons.
I was obliged to swot up on the brief visit to these shores of Cherie Blair for my Breakfast slot this morning. I quite
quickly realised that New Zealand has been no more than a fleeting location for a story that wasn't really about us at
all...
Rather than an atlas of the world, University of Auckland student Daniel Wichmann has created an atlas with a bit of a
difference.
"Meet me under the 59th Street bridge," Mark Garsin said after reading my interview with him about the murder of Patrice
Lumumba, the Congo's first democratically elected leader. At the edge of New York on the East River?
The United Nations today launched a $3 million flash appeal to meet the immediate needs of over 300,000 Guyanese –
nearly half the South American country’s total population – affected by recent floods, including provision of safe
water, adequate sanitation ...
The time has come for all Nepalese to make a fundamental choice, a choice that cannot be permitted to be made on Nepal's
behalf. Desperate times call for desperate measures, and each Nepali must set priorities and make the best choices with
the information ...
Hon Mark Burton welcomes Controller and Auditor General's report on the Light Armoured Vehicles
In a pre-planned, live sketch last night at The 2004 JUNO Awards, Canada's music awards, host Alanis Morissette made
light of the recent Super Bowl controversy in the United States when she ''exposed'' herself on Canadian television.
National's Finance Spokesman, John Key, last night led the National party in voting against more than $2 billion in
transport funding for the regions.
A former principal dancer with The Royal New Zealand Ballet is among 56 new police officers to graduate from The Royal
New Zealand Police College this week.
Drafted and Resolved By the Laos National Federation, the Center for Public Policy Analysis, the Lao Veterans of
America, Inc., the United League for Democracy in Laos, Inc., the Lao Association of Washington, D.C., Lao Huam Phao
Association, Free Laos ...
I confess, I briefly wondered whether I had chanced upon a stray episode of Eating Media Lunch during the first item of
the debut airing of Prime TV's Paul Holmes vehicle, Paul Homes. The eponymous host linked live to reporter Solina Theron
for a report ...
Despite some human rights improvements in Afghanistan such as the release of hundreds of prisoners, matters of concern
still persist, including domestic violence against women, a deficient justice system, the deleterious impact of drugs
and the dire conditions ...
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