Word: zealander
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...gullibility of their users. In the end, the bug's bark was worse than its bite. The National Computer Security Association in Washington reported that 15 computers had been struck in England, 12 in the Netherlands and five in Austria. There were disruptions in Japan, China and New Zealand. Several hundred computers used by South Africa's pharmacists were zapped. But except for a Southern Baptist church near Atlanta, which lost all its data, and a few scattered businesses, damage reported in the U.S. was minimal. The number of affected computers was probably a few thousand worldwide...
Rowe, 46, was born in New Zealand and raised in Australia. He received an undergraduate degree in architecture from Melbourne University and a master's degree in urban design from Rice. Rowe left Rice for Harvard...
...Australia, scientists believe that crops of wheat, sorghum and peas have been affected, and health officials report a threefold rise in skin cancers. There are anecdotal reports of more cancer in Argentina too. While no increase in cancers or cataracts has shown up yet in Chile or New Zealand, experts note that these diseases can take years to develop...
...February 1941. The brilliant Erwin Rommel, who had helped lead German forces in the lightning conquest of France in 1940, quickly turned back the Allied advance in Libya and in April besieged an Australian division in the strategic seaside fortress of Tobruk as troops from Britain and New Zealand retreated to Egypt. Rommel called Tobruk's defenders nothing but rabble and promised that the panzers of his fabled Afrika Korps would soon be parked by the Suez Canal...
Increasingly, restorationists have begun their own version of battlefield triage, focusing efforts on natural areas that are sick but not yet mortally wounded. In New Zealand, for instance, they have deemed efforts to restore destroyed habitats on the main islands a lost cause. Instead they are concentrating on saving relatively pristine areas such as the Mercury Islands, one of the last strongholds of the rare milk-tree forest...