MARCH/APRIL/MAY 2001

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AIR NEW ZEALAND; or NO FRILLS HTML
An Air New Zealand jumbo jet developed a flight control failure over Los Angeles that experts say could have killed its passengers, but the flight crew chose to limp on to London rather than make an emergency landing in the US - was it the right call? IAN WISHART investigates

JAB IN THE DARK; or NO FRILLS HTML VERSION
Simon Jones backgrounds the latest vaccine scare - a British medical report suggest the MMR vaccine should never have been released and may be linked to autism

POLLY WANTS A COPPER
The foot and mouth scare throws a new spotlight on the border police - former cops whose job now is to prevent animals and exotic diseases from entering the country

END OF EMPIRE?:
Ian Wishart's essay on why both Parliament and the Treaty of Waitangi are dinosaurs who have to go

THE PEOPLE BEFORE
A 30,000 year old chopped-down tree stump found underneath an Auckland lava flow showst humans may have been living in New Zealand as far back as 28,000 BC.

TRAVEL: DON'T CRY FOR ME, ARGENTINA
South America beckons, we obey

HEALTH
the joy of sex

1ST DRIVE:
Citroen's Xsara Picasso, Nissan's new Z-car