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Listener Photo Essay Competition

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Issue Listener Plus 3792 10th Jan 2013

$2000 of prize money is up for grabs in this year’s Listener Photo Essay Competition.

All will be received in Graceland

By Karl du Fresne in Music

Issue 3792 9th Jan 2013

Karl du Fresne continues his American song-title tour and finds that Elvis Presley’s mansion is as tacky as you’d imagine, yet not as grand as you’d expect.

Mood food: diet and your mental health

By Carroll Du Chateau in Lifestyle

Issue 3792 9th Jan 2013

Some doctors are selling micronutrient supplements, claiming what you eat has an important influence on your mental health, but others remain sceptical.

Inside the mind of a killer

By Marc Wilson in Psychology

Issue 3792 8th Jan 2013

What drives people such as America’s latest mass killer, Adam Lanza, to go on a rampage?

Share and share alike

By Peter Griffin in Technology

Issue 3792 5th Jan 2013

Zuckerberg’s Law makes it inevitable that our personal data will become a web 3.0 company’s commodity.

Photo Essay: In the dark of the night

By David White in Culture

Issue 3792 4th Jan 2013

Meet Constable Manreet Bassi of Auckland Police. Bassi, who is 21 and Fijian Indian, has been in the police for just over a year and loves the job. David White accompanied her on a night shift.

The WoF debate: are we going down the wrong road?

By Anthony Doesburg in Current Affairs

Issue 3792 3rd Jan 2013

New environmental and safety proposals for vehicles are likely to hurt those at the bottom of the heap most, campaigners say.

Cartoon caption competition 6

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Issue 3792 3rd Jan 2013

Still on holiday? Get captioning to be in to win.

Dear Life by Alice Munro - review

By Paula Morris in Books

Issue 3792 3rd Jan 2013

Alice Munro’s latest and possibly last story collection includes four pieces “autobiographical in feeling, though not, sometimes, entirely so in fact”.

Two minutes with: Ang Lee

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Issue 3792 3rd Jan 2013

The Oscar-winning director of Brokeback Mountain and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon recently visited New Zealand to promote his latest epic, The Life of Pi.