Word: zealander
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...secure resources from other lands by using their financial clout - this is far preferable to the traditionally European and eventually American tactic of sending in troops and killing civilians as we have seen in the invasion of Iraq and the securing of its oil. C. Reynolds Manukau, New Zealand...
With more than 2,500 special-effects shots, the bulk of the man-hours on Avatar were spent not on a stage but in a dark viewing room in Los Angeles, in teleconferences with collaborating artists from Peter Jackson's Weta Digital studio in Wellington, New Zealand. The real world was being used to inform the fictional one: an energy map of the Pandoran forest was modeled on rat neurons; hours were spent getting alien sap to drip precisely right. (See the 10 worst video game movies...
December 31, 1999: I was in New Zealand. I was one of the first to see the coming of the millennium. We were also among the first to know that disaster wasn’t going to strike because of the Y2K bug. I knew it was going to be a bunch of nothing. I could confirm—in fact I called my relatives to tell them that the planes didn’t fall out of the sky, the electricity didn’t fail, ATMs didn’t stop working...
...Besides the extra troops from the U.K., Italy, Georgia, Montenegro, South Korea and Turkey, have said they are ready to send more troops - though none have indicated numbers. Poland, Spain and Slovakia are thought to be considering reinforcements, along with non-European allies like New Zealand and Japan. But the Netherlands has already announced it is pulling out its 2,160 troops next year, and Canada will withdraw its 2,800-strong force by the end of 2011. (See pictures of the battle against the Taliban...
...Outcome: Just for fun, the Avenger looked up where a person could fly for $2,200 from his home base in New York City - with or without bags. Hey, look! Auckland, New Zealand! Jakarta, Indonesia! Beijing, China - twice...