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Constructing transmission towers has clearly not been a priority around here. I should not be surprised—after all, this is the West Coast, one of the most rugged and remote places in New Zealand. A land of rainforests, rivers and glaciers between the Tasman Sea and the spine of the formidable Southern Alps, the West Coast is home to some of New Zealand’s most spectacular landscape. By night, mighty mountains recede into the darkness. Yet I can still feel their unmistakable presence...

Author: By Silas Xu, | Title: Just Checking | 8/6/2004 | See Source »

...heeded my mum’s every word, I would have no choice but to return to New Zealand for good or to start life in a retirement village. I felt I called much too often to say the exact same things again and again. I really did not need reminding to drink bottled water or to put on a warm jacket as the weather gets cold. So when my mum asked that I call her every night while I was traveling on the West Coast, I thought it was mildly excessive. After all, I am in New Zealand, where...

Author: By Silas Xu, | Title: Just Checking | 8/6/2004 | See Source »

...years apart for one final concert tomorrow afternoon at 5 p.m. at the Hatch Shell in Boston. The performance, open to the public and free of charge, is expected to draw an audience more than 50,000 strong, including listeners from as far away as Australia and New Zealand, according to submissions to the band’s official website...

Author: By Timothy J. Mcginn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dispatch Reflects, Prepares For Final Show | 7/30/2004 | See Source »

...only people in the world, I think, who have the right to have a grille," Sister Veronica says of the Catholic Carmelite order. Their nine Australian and New Zealand monasteries can all be traced back more than eight centuries to a group of hermits living on Mount Carmel, near what is today Haifa, Israel. Four centuries later, in ?vila, Spain, St. Teresa formed the present order in 1562; three centuries after that, in 1885, the Carmel of Angoul?me, France, established a foundation in Dulwich Hill, Sydney. The grille "is not to keep us in, or the world out," insists Sister...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In a State of Grace | 7/29/2004 | See Source »

...foragers are back with their offerings. A shrewd question, quietly put to a government minister after a press conference, will lead to a major piece on late-term abortion policy. More text messages confirm the story on Indonesian terrorism is on its way. But a call from New Zealand correspondent Claire Harvey changes everything: Helen Clark's government has announced it's cutting ties with Israel following the jailing of two alleged Mossad spies for passport fraud. Whittaker's thrilled: "I think we've got a story that will get us out of trouble." Harvey rings back to confirm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In the Land of The Oz | 7/29/2004 | See Source »

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