Scoop Top 30 Daily Ratings 12 March 2007

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Yesterday's top 30 rating items on Scoop were...

1: Michael Collins: Florida Gov. Crist Makes History

Michael Collins

TALLAHASSEE, FL ( AP ) -- Governor Charlie Crist says he will continue working to change the rules so that felons will have their voting rights automatically restored once they have paid their debt to society. This is one of the most revolutionary ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00134.htm

US State Department

Good evening, and thank you, Frank Burd, for your kind introduction. I am glad to have this opportunity to meet with the Baltimore Council on Foreign Affairs and discuss the topic you suggested to me for tonight: Somalia.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0703/S00212.htm

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Warner Bros epic blockbuster movie “300” has wowed cinema-goers in the United States with the movie grossing a staggering US $70 million dollars (NZ $95 million) on its opening weekend making it the highest March box office opening in US cinema ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0703/S00122.htm

Scoop Transcript

This weekend when asked by TVNZ's Agenda presenter Lisa Owen where National stood on Iraq current National Leader John Key replied:
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00192.htm

Council on Hemispheric Affairs

At a time when his popularity has hit rock bottom at home, President Bush is slipping out of Washington today to visit five Latin American nations in the course of an six-day trip. Bush’s itinerary will take him first to Brazil, then south to Uruguay ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0703/S00177.htm

Intel

Further expanding its quad-core processor family line-up, Intel Corporation today announced two energy-efficient 50-watt server processors that represent a 35- to nearly 60-percent decrease in power from Intel’s existing 80- and 120-watt quad-core ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC0703/S00024.htm

Agenda

Lisa Owen: Almost from day one John Key was seen as the National leader in waiting but when he got the job last November his party's own polling showed that many voters didn’t know what John Key stood for, a perception even he's acknowledged, so in ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00189.htm

Alexandra Bremner

My train journey tells a tale of Southern Thailand. It is a story of the growing conflict between the Buddhist and Malay Muslim communities which habituate Yala, Pattani, Songkhla and Narathiwat which make up the southern region of Thailand.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00210.htm

Michael Collins

North Florida. Retired Navy aviator and veteran, Bill Faulkner, MBA, may have done the impossible. He devised a plan to return believable elections to Florida by turning optical scan forms into the ballot of record , to be counted by citizens in public ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00150.htm

Woosh

Woosh Wireless has this week ensured that its wireless broadband service is now compatible with Windows Vista. Drivers are available to be downloaded from today for both the Woosh modems and the Laptop PC Cards.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC0703/S00026.htm

Genevieve Cora Fraser

After visiting the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem recently, a group of German bishops crossed over into Occupied Palestine and compared Israeli treatment of Palestinians to Nazis treatment of the Jews during the Holocaust.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00196.htm

New Zealand Government

Prime Minister Helen Clark and Defence Minister Phil Goff today announced that the New Zealand contribution to the reconstruction of Afghanistan is being extended for a further year to September 2008.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0703/S00213.htm

Cancer Research Centre

Two New Studies on Aspartame and Diet Drinks Confirm Source of Obesity, Cancer/Malignant Brain Tumor Epidemics
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0703/S00174.htm

Carolyn Baker

This week the Senate Banking Committee has begun an investigation of credit card companies and that industry’s lending practices of which Chairman, Carl Levin of Michigan said , “Millions of families…are kept in debt and are in over their ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00208.htm

HARD NEWS from Russell Brown

One of the things the TVNZ Charter is meant to do is to guarantee the production and screening of programming for and about minority communities. The relevant part is a fairly ugly piece of written English, but it gets the point across. It undertakes ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00209.htm

Family First

On the Young Labour website (www.younglabour.org.nz) the question has been posed “Should Section 59 (of the Crimes Act) be repealed.” In a result consistent with every other poll done over the past 2 years, the result has been a resounding no!
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0703/S00135.htm

Emirates Airlines

Emirates, the Dubai-based international airline, has opened dedicated lounge facilities for its premium passengers at both Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Malaysia and Suvarnabhumi International Airport in Thailand.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0703/S00226.htm

US State Department

Readout on North Korea Six-Party Talks U.S.-DPRK Working Group Meetings in New York
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0703/S00211.htm

afterdowningstreet.org

Washington, DC: Today, Tina Richards, mother of a Marine facing a third Iraq deployment, who made national news last week when she had a chance encounter in the hallway with Rep. David Obey, Chair of the Appropriations Committee, will return to Obey’s office.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0703/S00215.htm

New Zealand Government

Book reminds us that during World War Two there was a major home front backing the war effort, and preparing in the event that the war reached our shores.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0703/S00215.htm

Commerce Commission

Think that phone call or text message sounds like a scam? "Hang up or delete" is the advice today from the Ministry of Consumer Affairs and the Commerce Commission, as part of Fraud Awareness Month.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0703/S00137.htm

Xcerion

Software should be free – Xcerion wants to challenge the software industry. Northzone Ventures has invested 10 million US dollars in Xcerion AB first-round VC funding to launch its collaborative XML Internet OS. Xcerion aims to distribute the OS and ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC0703/S00028.htm

LESANZ

As the global business environment becomes increasingly competitive and corporate governance requirements more stringent, the management, protection and commercialization of intellectual property has become a crucial issue for business managers and an ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0703/S00220.htm

Dick Quax

The revelation in the Herald on Sunday that a Manukau City Council hall was being used the headquarters of a violent youth gang in Otara leaves the chairman of a government funded Otara youth action group and mayoral aspirant, Len Brown facing some embarrassing ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0703/S00157.htm

United Future NZ Party

United Future deputy leader Judy Turner announced today she was seeking support from all parties to include an amendment at the committee stage of the Sue Bradford-sponsored anti-smacking Bill
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0703/S00216.htm

Center for Constitutional Rights

Washington , March 9, 2007–The Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala (NISGUA) today urged President Bush to make justice and accountability for human rights abuses a priority during his upcoming visit to Guatemala, particularly by ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0703/S00199.htm

Uri Avnery

IF GOD wills, even a broomstick will shoot. That is an old Yiddish adage. One could add now: If God wills, even Olmert can sometimes tell the truth.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00207.htm

Guest Opinion

THE responsibilities of donor agencies do not end with approving of loans or funds for a country or an organization, but rather a duty is added as well, to monitor how those loans or grants are spent. It is duty and responsibility of donor agencies ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00200.htm

Packaging Council

The Packaging Council believes that whilst we can always learn from overseas, we should not keep beating ourselves up with legislation envy. Visiting Canadian Tom Galimberti may have dismissed the independent report by independent New Zealand economists ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0703/S00222.htm

Kelpie Wilson

Polar bears, those cute, cuddly, white furry animals of the north, are actually one of the world's most formidable predators. They are the only bear species known to stalk and kill human beings for food.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00206.htm

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