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With its surfeit of Oscars, Lord of the Rings has done more for New Zealand than any tourism campaign. Thankfully, there's plenty of the country's dreamscape left for those who want wide-screen scenery but don't care for Middle Earth hype. Base yourself in one of New Zealand's charming lodges and leave Hollywood behind...
...season, new coach for the Quakers. Taking the helm is Leslie King Moore, former coach of George Washington University. For 14 years, King Moore was the starting shortstop of the New Zealand National softball team and served as captain of the squad that qualified for the Olympics in 2000. She was named the 2000 New Zealand Player of the Year and her team won a silver medal at the world championships that same season. It’s definitely more exciting to talk about the coach than the team, which last year posted its 21st straight losing record...
...DIED. WILLIAM PICKERING, 93, quiet giant of the U.S. space program; in La Ca?ada Flintridge, California. An ?migr? from New Zealand, Pickering was part of the team that launched the U.S.'s first satellite in 1958. For 22 years, he was chief of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which during his tenure conducted America's manned missions to the Moon and sent pioneering probes to Venus and Mars...
...Number of tourists in January to New Zealand, where Lord of the Rings was filmed, a 10% increase over last year...
Okin is survived by a daughter, Laura Moller Okin of Boston; a son, Justin Moller Okin of New York; and two sisters, Janice May of England and Catherine Pitt of New Zealand...