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...since the first olive trees were experimentally planted in the country in 1985, the number of olive growers there has soared to more than 500. The reason? Olives are very easy to cultivate in New Zealand's temperate climate, particularly in the Marlborough region, where the same weather that is favorable for wine production also results in beautifully rich, fruity olive oils. New Zealand growers have planted olive varieties from all over the world, including Israeli barnea (the most common), French picholine, Greek koroneiki, and Italian frantoio, leccino, pendolino and moraiolo olives. See how they've fared, with this roundup...
...Tasmania isn't exactly known for its balmy weather, but whatever the season, you'll find some of Australia's hottest jazz at the Courtyard, an outdoor venue behind the arts center at Hobart's historic Salamanca Place. Come Friday nights, it's packed with hundreds of people drinking, dancing and socializing to an ever-changing roster of bands. "We play, rain, hail or shine," says organizer Tania Bosak, a Croatian immigrant and live wire on the local arts scene who started the evenings five years ago. There's no cover charge-instead, band members walk around between sets holding...
DIED. Harold Arlen, 81, popular composer with a distinctively bluesy, jazz-based style who created some of America's most durable and cherished songs, ranging from the bubbling Get Happy, his first hit, in 1929, to the sultry Stormy Weather (1933) and including such perennials as It's Only a Paper Moon, Last Night When We Were Young, Come Rain or Come Shine, The Man That Got Away and, perhaps most memorably, Over the Rainbow, the Academy Award-winning ballad that Judy Garland sang in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz; in New York City. Born Chaim Arluk...
...whether the press caused some of the pressure. He picked as his most egregious example this lead-in by Rather, broadcast the night before the blowup: "Yet another costly, red-faces-all-around space shuttle-launch delay. This time a bad bolt on a hatch and a bad-weather bolt from the blue are being blamed. What's more, a rescheduled launch for tomorrow doesn't look good either. Bruce Hall has the latest on today's high-tech low comedy." It is hard to imagine Cronkite, trying to be clever, calling the shuttle's problems "high-tech low comedy...
Reagan loved the intrigue. He went through the schedule, got a weather report and recalled that he had left his fur hat at Camp David. He had learned a bit about Iceland, he noted, from Tom Clancy's novel Red Storm Rising, which vividly depicts the island's crucial importance to NATO. He also remembered an astronaut's saying that the moon was nicer than training in Iceland...