New Zealand’s quake-ravaged city of Christchurch has been rocked by a series of 17 low- to mid-level earthquakes in 18 hours.
That television set in the corner really is an idiot box, New Zealand researchers have found. A 30-year study of more than 1 000 children has found that those who watch the most TV are least likely to go to university and get a degree. The seven percent of children who watched the box for under an hour daily were the most qualified by the time they were aged 26.
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/ 15 December 2004
Tens of thousands of penguin chicks could starve to death in the Antarctic over the next few weeks because the southern continents biggest iceberg is cutting off their parents from the sea and customary food supplies, according to New Zealand scientists.
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/ 5 February 2004
Why would two highly respected men — one a professor of medicine, the other a government inspector — travel halfway round the world to dig up plants in a foreign country and risk spending three years in jail? The answer is that they were in the grip of ”orchidelirium”, an obsession with orchids.