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Scoop Today - Yesterday's Top 20

Published: Thu 18 Nov 1999 10:46 AM
Scoop's top 20 rating items yesterday were...
1: Scoop Images: A Hobbit Summer House?
Scoop is proud to present another image of Hobbitton… this time of what appears to be a fairly grand Hobbit summer house …enjoy.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL9911/S00099.htm
2: Scoop Images: Jim Anderton On Don’s Bad Hair Day
Lights…. cameras….crane… are we ready…..Steady now...don’t mind the wind Jim...Nearer my god to thee...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL9911/S00125.htm
3: State of Emergency Declared in Alexandra
A state of emergency has been announced in the Central Otago town of Alexandra as the worst flood in over 100 years hits the area.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL9911/S00121.htm
4: Vandalism Campaign Against Prebble Escalates
Richard Prebble's electorate office window had a rock thrown through it last Thursday night as a campaign of vandalism against ACT in Wellington Central appears to be escalating.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL9911/S00115.htm
5: ENTER THE GREAT SCOOP ELECTION COMPETITION!
Scoop has a fine, unopened bottle of single malt whisky to whomever can correctly predict the election result.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL9911/S00119.htm
6: The Abortion Bonus! U.S. Theory Considered
Today, Scoop welcomes Barb Sumner to our columnist fold. Barb is a freelance writer, a regular in "Grace" and "Metro" and occasionally in the NZ Herald. She warns: some consider her works "too extreme". You be the judge.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL9911/S00124.htm
7: Americas Cup Today's Full Race Report
Italy's Prada Team is proving an almost unstoppable force in the Americas Cup challenger series races on Auckland's Hauraki Gulf.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK9911/S00091.htm
8: There's little hope for the left…
There's little hope the Left could form any sort of Government, if they have so much trouble trusting each other over disabled parking spaces, said Roger Sowry.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA9911/S00402.htm
9: WINZ Course Advises Unemployed People to Vote ACT
Wellington unemployed people are being forced by WINZ to attend "confidence building" courses at which they are being told to vote for the ACT Party according to UNITE!, the union representing unemployed and community wage workers.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE9911/S00066.htm
10: FBI Take Over EgyptAir Probe
The FBI is taking over the investigation into the EgyptAir 990 crash after the cockpit voice recorder provided information suggesting a criminal act may be responsible, officials say.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL9911/S00123.htm
11: ALCP Confident of Making Parliament
Cannabis Party’s Parliamentary Hopes Growing The Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party is heartened by an internet poll that shows it comfortably over the 5% threshold to get into parliament. Xtra’s internet poll, which has had over 13,000 votes, shows ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO9911/S00104.htm
12: The high price of "success" National-style
Labour finance spokesperson Michael Cullen said it was absurd for the Treasurer to claim increasing interest rates were simply a sign of the success of the National Party's economic policies.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA9911/S00387.htm
13: Kiwis Trying to Kill Potential Cancer Cure
Officials in New Zealand want to capture and kill, as illegal pests, imported Australian frogs, while in South Australia doctor's have discovered frogs may be the key to curing a wide-range of human ills. It's a strange world. John Howard reports.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL9911/S00122.htm
14: Scoop Images: WORLD EXCLUSIVE: BAG END!
Scoop is delighted to present to Frodo and Bilbo Baggin’s house in the Waikato – Bag End. Now we are getting magical….
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL9911/S00092.htm
15: Reserve Bank confirms strong economic growth
The Reserve Bank confirmed today that New Zealand has now entered a new era of strong and sustained export-led economic growth, Treasurer Bill English said today.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA9911/S00388.htm
16: Hi Jenny, Hi Richard, Hi Don, Higher interest rate
Today's interest rate rise shows National's scare campaign that an Alliance Labour government would increase interest rates is dishonest, Alliance leader Jim Anderton says.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA9911/S00399.htm
17: Scoop Images: Hobbit Town Photos Mystery Solved
The two photos above one apparently of the same scene - appear to confirm that the Hobbit Town photos published this morning by the Dominion are indeed real - even if they do look a little too toy townish.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL9911/S00086.htm
18: Hobbits Not Welcome in Kahurangi National Park
The Forest and Bird Protection Society is concerned that Frodo and his hairy hobbit friends with their attendant large film crews may severely damage sensitive landscapes in the Kahurangi National Park and Kepler Mire, an ancient string bog in Fiordland.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL9911/S00103.htm
19: The Voting Season - A Pox on all your Parties
The other day, I was idly contemplating the Wellington Central electorate, where National has withdrawn to allow ACT's Richard Prebble a better run at himself, and the Alliance has withdrawn to allow Labour's Marion Hobbs a better run at himself ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL9911/S00126.htm
20: Scoop Today - The Latest From The Campaign Trail
.....and much much more...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL9911/S00118.htm
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