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| | Bob's travel journal |
 | | New Zealand is, in fact, the melanoma capital of Earth, thanks to clean air, the sun's proximity during summer (closer here than in the northern hemisphere, they tell me; I'm not sure how that works, but whatever, it sure feels like it), and the world's widespread ozone-destroying CFC use. |
 | | New Zealand is blessed with not only an active and successful Green Party, but an electoral system that doesn't instantly neutralize political change through arcane winner-take-all rules. |
 | | New Zealand has a strange insecurity about its close, peaceful relationship with Australia, one often compared to Canada's sense of itself in comparison with the U.S.: a mix of envy, kinship, resentment, shared history, and a struggle to maintain an identity. |
| www.thismodernworld.com /NZ.html (2657 words) |
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