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Australia and New Zealand are drifting apart. The larger nation is buoyant and rich, while the smaller one is in a funk. The gap in average incomes between the countries has widened significantly in recent years to approximately 30%, drawing Kiwis across the Tasman in large numbers. Hanging over several of New Zealand's key industries (think banking), there's a branch-office stigma. Australia's Treasurer Peter Costello is chopping at tax rates with the glee of a burly bloke in a blue singlet. Kiwi workers complain that Costello's counterpart Michael Cullen is being a scrooge on fiscal...
...there are hard truths here for Australia and other mid-sized countries. For years, New Zealand has been viewed as a social and economic laboratory. Policy makers can see what works and what doesn't. Perhaps, as some are now suggesting, the Kiwi is becoming the canary in the coal mine of the new global economic order. According to David Skilling, chief executive of The New Zealand Institute, the health of the bird tells us how globalization affects countries on the periphery?and that, of course, includes Australia, despite being five times the size of its neighbor. Geography still matters...
...generation ago, the fruit aisle at your neighborhood grocery store might have topped out once you got past the apples, bananas and peaches. But more stores are carrying persimmons, kiwi berries, starfruit and other exotic fruits. "Kiwi was rare 20 years ago," says David Feder, dietician and managing editor of Wellness Foods Magazine, "but now they're everywhere." If you're looking for simpler frozen fruit, Lempert recommends Cascadian Farm's organic frozen blueberries as an affordable alternative to $5-a-pint fresh ones. When selecting fruit and veggies, dietician and food expert Melinda Hemmelgarn says the best...
...Berlin's main nightlife drags. Find a place in the cozy back room and watch the tropical fish as you sip a Bellini, a champagne cocktail with peach juice. Try the green temptation, an award-winning house creation made of butterscotch, coconut and melon liqueurs and kiwi, lemon and passion-fruit juice. Windhorst 65 Dorotheenstrasse, tel: (49-30) 20450070 Günter Windhorst doesn't have it easy: his bar is located next to the U.S. embassy, and post-9/11 security nearly blocked the entrance. But it's worth crossing the security line to sample the bar's downtown...
...Around 1 million New Zealanders - almost another Auckland - are thought to be living overseas. Ross McConnell, chief executive of the not-for-profit Kiwi Expat Association (KEA) is trying to get his fellow citizens to think of New Zealand as a "globally connected nation of 5 million people, rather than as an isolated country of 4 million people." Last week McConnell launched an online global census (www.everyonecounts.co. nz) to find out more about those missing Kiwis. "Knowing more about this community will have practical benefits, and will help us better define ourselves as a nation," he says. Since...