Word: zealander
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Researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health have concluded that children born with lower IQs possess higher risk of psychiatric disorders, according to a decades-long study of 1000 people in New Zealand. Children with lower IQ levels were more vulnerable to having chronic psychiatric disorders after the age of 32, researchers said. The study was conducted on a cohort of children born between 1972 and 1973 in Dunedin, New Zealand and first tested at age three. The participants were assessed for psychiatric disorders at ages 18 through 32 by doctors without any knowledge of the cohort members?...
...Since then, the country's fragile internal security has been entrusted to a 1,500-strong contingent of U.N. police and an International Stabilisation Force made up of 920 Australian and New Zealand troops. As part of the security program, the U.N. and the East Timorese government signed a Reform, Restructuring and Rebuilding plan to regenerate the PNTL...
...Muguerza hospital system - located in Mexico, but run by U.S.-based Christian hospital group since 2001 - includes a scrolling text box on its web site informing visitors how "very close to you" its Mexican facilities are. ("from Houston 1 hr 37 mins!" "from Chicago 3hrs 15 mins!") Meanwhile, New Zealand is trumpeting its expertise in hip and knee replacements and South Korea is enticing medical travelers with high-end non-medical amenities like golf...
...should recruit from the best and brightest all over the world. Moreover, if the United States does not significantly change the way that it admits new Americans, it runs the risk of falling behind other industrialized countries with more liberal immigration policies, such as Canada and New Zealand. This is a risk that we simply cannot afford. Our country is long overdue for a real debate on immigration; thanks to the gifts of American democracy, we look forward to starting one in January. Until then, University Hall must shoulder much of the burden of providing for its international alumni...
...answer is that I was blessed to have a mother who understood that education was a liberator and that you get out of life what you put into it. And so one of the things that really concern me is the long tale of underachievement in New Zealand's education system, and I know that unless we can deliver credible change in that area, an awful lot of New Zealanders will slip through the cracks...