Edge Message #90 from Brian Sweeney, producer NZEDGE.COM
New Zealanders in Global Headlines
New Zealand headlines in this week’s sampling of global media appearing in The New York Times, The Times, Globe & Mail, Salon,Guardian, The Age, Monocle, Undercover, China View, Telegram, BBC News, Canberra Times, Times of India and The Observer include:
– Wellington’s Ponoko pioneer virtual personalized manufacturing
– Rotorua microbiologists reveal methane-buster from Hells Gate
– New 50 Facts That Should Change the World from Jessica Williams
– Nurse Lisa French Blaker writes Heart of Darfur from Sudan
– NZ “wine producing country of the year” – Observer’s Tim Atkin
– OtagoU scientists patent squid gel to reduce surgical scarring
– BEE (Beauty Engineered for Ever) cleaning products make Monocle
– Carbon-neutral Arthur’s Pass Wilderness Lodge gets Times aok
– Guardian has “thrillingly wild, jaw-dropping” tour of NZ back country
– Lloyd Jones talks up raging character of Wellington wind in Times
– Digi-bongo acapella-rap-funk-comedy Conchords score in Capital
– Auckland artist Dane Mitchell selected for Miami’s Art Basel 2008
– Peter Boggs compared to Edward Hopper in Canberra exhibition
– Chills, “set apart by geography”, in Guardian’s greatest music acts
– B+W photographer Stefanie Young in Chelsea NYC show
– Baritone Teddy Tahu Rhodes shows character range in OZ Opera
– Lauren McKee and Wynne Pirini reinvent T-shirts in Vancouver
– Windsurfer Barbara Kendall earns fifth Olympic Games spot
– Buck Shelford scores 15th in Times’ list of sport’s worst injuries
– All Black and NZ Maori legend Pat Walsh dies, Auckland, 71
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Thumbnail photo of Hell’s Gate, Rotorua
Best regards,
Brian Sweeney
Producer
THE NEW ZEALAND EDGE
http://www.nzedge.com brian@nzedge.com
