Word: zealander
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...researchers based in Dunedin, New Zealand, reported a relationship between these different genotypes, adverse life events and depression. The Sydney researchers, including lead author Kay Wilhelm, soon realized they were sitting on a goldmine: hundreds of detailed personal histories covering 25 years that were perfectly suited to the testing of a brand new discovery. Some 127 of the original group - now mostly in their early 50s - agreed to give dna samples, which were crosschecked with their life stories. The result is a guide for working out depression risk: for example, a person with the high-risk genotype who experiences three...
...Prevention is crucial with dementia, as medicines do no more than alleviate the symptoms for the 200,000 sufferers in Australia and New Zealand. The most common type of dementia, Alzheimer's Disease, is characterized by the spread of sticky plaques and clumps of tangled fiber that disrupt communication between brain cells. Gradually robbing people of their memory, personality and eventually all cognitive function, it typically kills within 5 to 10 years. Apart from the distress it causes sufferers and their loved ones, Alzheimer's is extremely costly: in Australia it drains an estimated $A3 billion a year from...
With a voice as pure as birdsong, she has soared to the top of the charts, becoming New Zealand's biggest-selling female artist. No, we're not talking about Hayley Westenra, the Wellington schoolgirl who took Amazing Grace to Enya-like heights, but the exotic musical hybrid that is Bic Runga. In 2002, a year before Westenra hit her high notes, this Maori-Chinese singer-songwriter took the simple guitar hooks of Drive to a new level with Beautiful Collision, an album in which she exploded genres - from folk to rock to country - with the glassy resonance...
...Overdue charge for a copy of The Punch Library of Humour checked out from a New Zealand library in 1945; the library waived the fine in return for permission to put the overdue book on display...
...countries in alphabetical order, in Italian, from Albania to Venezuela, with Italy the climactic parade. Stati Uniti D?America came between Spain and South Africa. Some of the smaller, tropical delegations were crowd pleasers ? Kenya with two athletes got big cheers, as did Senegal, with three. New Zealand wore menacing black. Team USA brought much of the crowd to its feet. The athletes entered under the five giant Olympic rings, which represent the five continents and rose through the early part of the ceremony and then took on their traditional colors in a burst of flame...