Word: zealander
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Varicose veins, those bulging, discolored blood vessels that cause cosmetic consternation in women and discomfort for both sexes, probably have a variety of causes. Habitual standing in place for long periods is one. Can sitting in chairs be another? So theorizes Dr. Colin Alexander of New Zealand's Auckland Medical School. Alexander's argument in the Lancet owes as much to geography as it does to anatomy. Varicose veins, he points out, are rare among the Japanese and other Eastern peoples who generally sit on the floor or the ground. But the condition is common among Westerners...
Crew competition in the Summer Olympics will be held from August 27 to September 2. The boats will compete on an artificial course constructed especially for the Olympics. The U.S. eight will face fine boats from East Germany. New Zealand and the Soviet Union who led international competitions last year...
Pinehaven, New Zealand...
...experts of Genetics International Ltd., a New Zealand stock-breeding company, there was an obvious, if devious, solution. The breeders shipped French cows to Britain, where they were artificially inseminated. Their fertilized ova were removed and transplanted into the wombs of local Jersey and Friesian heifers. Then the surrogate British mothers were shipped to New Zealand, where officials passed them without the slightest beef...
...embryos should develop normally in the British heifers and be born with all the genetic qualities of their French antecedents. Those qualities can then be passed on to the New Zealand herds after the imported infants grow old enough to breed...