THE RUGBY WORLD CUP
Way back when there was a Ministry of Works, I occasionally needed an
assistant and once, during the football season, I was assigned someone who came in every Monday with a limp or his arm in a sling.
Natural Health products are again being subjected to restrictions in what looks like a further attempt by pharmaceutical companies to attack their Natural Health competitors.
This particular rant was inspired (?) by my latest phone bill. Not the exorbitant, outrageous, unjustifiable, swingeing charges -- not this time, anyway -- but by the new Telecom logo.I'm not sure how long it's been around but I've only just noticed the scribbled cross. What does it mean?
Ugly new revelations about freak animal research results have sparked demands for reinstatement of the government's axed Bioethics Council.
And at least one organisation says that AgResearch's animal experiments involves cruelty.
Another birthday and a welcome book... Dawn French's first book [1]. It is a different approach to writing an autobiography; in recalling her childhood she reflects views of our correspondent John Northcott
