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February 18-24 2006 Vol 202 No 3432

  • The Black Page Radio rage by Joanne Black
    What about getting the chooks to wash their hands?

  • Business No boot unlicked by David W Young
    How to score points with your boss.

  • Design Pick of the crop by Douglas Lloyd Jenkins
    A compendium show of work by design-school graduates is a one-stop shop of what’s new.

  • Drink Perrin in charge by Keith Stewart
    It has been a sad start to 2006 in the Rhône Valley region of France, with one of the greatest of the region’s wine producers, Paul Jaboulet Aîné, being sold off by the family to corporate ownership.

  • Editorial Freedoms in the balance by Joanne Black
    The Jyllands-Posten editors must have known the cartoons in front of them were likely to cause offence to their minority Muslim readership, but decided, incorrectly in the view of many, to publish and be damned.

  • Food Faster pasta by Lois Daish
    The most delicious pasta sauces don’t need to come from cans or jars. And, even better, the tomatoes don’t even have to be cooked.

  • Health & Science Meet the guy who grew the jumper by Marilyn Head
    Merino growers are flying overseas buyers in to show them how fine-wool fashion is made.

  • How It's Going Pogo, girl, pogo by Fiona Rae
    In which a 43-year-old mother goes to the Big Day Out.

  • Politics It’s about us by Jane Clifton
    The lack of histrionics at our most famous marae was a blessed relief.

  • Sport Sevens at the crossroads by Joseph Romanos
    Most of the time, sevens rugby seems to be insignificant in the union’s thinking, but …

  • Travel Toy towns by Graham Reid
    The architecture in southern Italy is that of a world apart.

  • Wide Area News The big Apple by Russell Brown
    Steve Jobs is being seriously talked about as the most powerful man in the global media industry.