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...rules, continues its whale hunts. Japan conducts "scientific" catches - also permitted under the rules - but some of the meat has turned up in markets. Iceland went so far as to quit the IWC in 1992, protesting the moratorium. It rejoined last October - a move that Italy, Mexico and New Zealand, citing proce- dural flaws, still reject...
...Tuscany into a laboratory for the latest technical advances in this little-known form of environmentally friendly power. Since Larderello was the first area to tap into the boiling underground reserves for making energy (in fact, Tuscany remained the only industrial producer of geothermal electricity until 1958, when New Zealand opened a steam power plant), it was the first to see its underground reserves begin depleting, after registering a significant drop in steam pressure output. A closer study revealed that underground liquid reserves had fallen by 30% from the maximum levels of the 1950s. "We began reaching the boundaries...
While Hwei was awaiting his visa’s arrival, the Malaysian government—which is funding his education—considered sending him to Australia or New Zealand...
ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR It has often been suggested that childhood maltreatment can create an antisocial adult. New research by Terrie Moffitt of London's Kings College on a group of 442 New Zealand men who have been followed since birth suggests that this is true only for a genetic minority. Again, the difference lies in a promoter that alters the activity of a gene. Those with high-active monoamine oxidase A genes were virtually immune to the effects of mistreatment. Those with low-active genes were much more antisocial if maltreated, yet--if anything--slightly less antisocial if not maltreated...
...Australia and New Zealand both issued fresh travel advisories last week for Brunei, East Timor, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. The U.S. has not added any new warnings to its preexisting Southeast Asian advisories, but privately, U.S. officials say the intensity of "chatter," or communications among suspected terrorists in the region, has reached an alarming level. Indonesian police who have been tracing phone calls between suspected members of Jemaah Islamiah (JI)?the militant organization blamed for the Bali blasts?now believe planning for another attack is well under way. "There's a bunch of different streams that seem...