Word: zealander
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Recording his city's rich architectural heritage has been a demoralizing task for Shanghainese photographer Deke Erh. While Art Deco buildings in Miami, New Zealand's Napier and even the Eritrean town of Asmara are lovingly tended, Shanghai has demolished scores of equally historic structures in its headlong rush for modernity. "I've been taking photographs of old Shanghai for 20 years, and I've continually seen these things torn down," says Erh. "But I still have hope. Even today, Shanghai has more Art Deco buildings than any other city in the world. If I didn't have hope...
...enjoyed David Kennedy's illuminating article on how the U.S. Congress and Presidents always tangle over war [Jan. 29]. His reference to the U.S. as "the world's oldest democracy," however, may need some qualification. Notwithstanding the many contributions the U.S. has made to the world, some say New Zealand was the first true democracy since it was the first nation to enfranchise women. Others use as a criterion the first election of parliament members (Iceland in A.D. 930). Some would ask, If the oldest democracy is not to be found somewhere in ancient Greece, why did the word first...
...book will think that is the alternative to being on drugs." And is it? No-at least it needn't be. Specialists in psychotherapy, or talking therapy, say Braydle's style was not only uncommon and wrongheaded but amounts to malpractice. The code of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists forbids not only sex with patients but "any behavior which might be reasonably interpreted by a patient as demeaning or as a sexual advance." Psychiatry will never rid itself entirely of practitioners who use talking therapy to satisfy voyeuristic urges, but it doesn't want to lose...
...That conclusion, of course, can have unfortunate consequences for people in our real lives. Shelly Quintana, a 30-year-old New Jersey housewife and mother of three, is one such person, but she isn't taking it lying down. A native of New Zealand, Quintana has been married for 10 years, but she says her husband has spent much of their marriage cruising through games like WoW. "He's excellent with the kids, but our relationship is nonexistent," says Quintana. "I'm completely torn-he provides for us, and he works really long hours. But at the same time...
...renewable energy projects. "However many trees we planted around the world, we could not keep up [with global CO2 output]", says Francis Sullivan, the bank's environment adviser. HSBC looks, he says, for more efficient uses of its money, such as its investment in a wind farm in New Zealand. Tree planting, Sullivan says, "is a distraction." Many green groups agree. In a recent report, Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace and WWF advised consumers to shun reforestation in favor of projects that "support the transition to non-fossil-fuel-based energy...