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Niki Cairo’s inspirational story features Keisha Castle-Hughes in the role that made her a star. As Paikea, a young girl of the Maori tribe of New Zealand, Castle-Hughes confronts issues of tradition, family, race and gender in her struggle to prove herself to her grandfather. Free and open to the public. Wednesday at 7 p.m. Common Room, Center for the Study of World Religions, 42 Francis...
Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology Steven Pinker’s interest in photography is one example of the ways in which art and the sciences have become interconnected by these professors. Professor Pinker, an avid photographer, has taken pictures of diverse locations ranging from Cambridge, Mass. to New Zealand. Once in graduate school, Professor Pinker noted the links between his psychological research and the art of photography. He says, “One reason that it meshes with my interests in psychology, in particular, [is] visual perception—how do we see a 3-D scene from...
...situation is fragile," says bank governor Hou. "We had a narrow-based economy to start with, and the ethnic tensions only made things worse." Also of concern, he adds, is that "many items of expenditure have been taken over by foreign governments - Australia has taken over rural health, New Zealand is paying for education. There's also police, speed boats and vehicles, which cost a lot of money. What happens when this is withdrawn?" Down the track, Hou worries about output matching the population growth rate. At around 3% a year, it's one of the most rapid...
Judging the ripeness of fruit has always seemed more art than science. Now a firm in New Zealand has developed a sensor that detects when pears are ripe by analyzing the aromas emitted by the fruit. Attached to the inside of the fruit's plastic wrapping, the sensor goes from red to orange to yellow as the fruit ripens. Sensors for avocados, kiwis, melons and mangoes are in the works...
...Given those statistics, Supple - whose chemotherapy winds up in March - is lucky to be alive. Given his age, he's even luckier. While there have been huge strides in treating young children - about 80% of under-15s diagnosed with cancer in Australia and New Zealand will beat the disease, more than double the rate in the 1970s - adolescents and young adults aren't doing nearly as well: depending on the type of cancer, their cure rates are lagging as much as 30 percentage points behind. The figures for all - the most common childhood cancer - illustrate the point. Some...