New Zealand Listener

Huntington's knight in shining armour, Richard Faull

From the Listener archive: Features

July 12-18 2008 Vol 214 No 3557

• Cover Inside story by Mary Jane Boland
  Former Harvard brain scientist Jill Bolte Taylor has a remarkable story of recovery from stroke – so why do our stroke statistics make for such alarming reading?

• Feature Our appalling record by Sarah Barnett
  New Zealand languishes near the bottom of OECD figures for stroke mortality rates.

• Feature The brain gain by Sarah Barnett
  Richard Faull’s world-leading work on the human brain has led to new insights into brain disease.

• Feature Marriage & intimacy by Ben Naparstek
  Katie Roiphe’s new book, Uncommon Arrangements, examines literary relationships – so what do “Katie-haters think now?

• Feature The nightmare continues by Shupayi Mpunga
  Shupayi Mpunga laments the depths her homeland has sunk to and looks at what the international community can do.

• Feature Indian palaces by Sue Miles
  Sue Miles takes to the high life in Rajasthan.

• Feature Fantasy Islands by Yvonne van Dongen
  Even rain is lovely in the Cook Islands.

• Feature Breaking out by Yvonne van Dongen
  An ocean of luxury on Queensland’s coastal islands.

• Feature Turning up the heat by Maria Farrer
  The ultimate in heli-skiing in British Columbia.

• Feature - Upfront Amy Hollingsworth by Guy Somerset
  ROMEO & JULIET, Royal New Zealand Ballet, touring, July 18-August 24.