An arrival from South Africa who caught Covid more than three weeks after landing in New Zealand will spend at least 39 days in quarantine. But their daunting stint, necessitated after they caught the virus in quarantine from someone in their travel bubble, is still not quite New Zealand's longest stay in managed isolation and quarantine MIQ. One of their travelling companions tested positive following routine testing around day three of their stay at an isolation hotel, a Ministry of Health spokesman said. The case was carrying a new South African strain of Covid

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The discovery of plant pollen in a Neanderthal burial site in northern Iraq gave even the most serious archaeologists something to smile about. As they systematically identified the pollen's parent plants mallows, grape hyacinth, ephedra, yarrow, groundsel and knapweed , they realised that they'd gained valuable insight into the practice of herbal medicine some 60, years ago. Formal records came a little later. Cuneiform script carefully records the names of plants along with 12 recipes for remedies one even uses an aloe leaf as a laxative.


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This last major geomagnetic reversal triggered a series of dramatic events that have far-reaching consequences for our planet. They read like the plot of a horror movie: the ozone layer was destroyed, electrical storms raged across the tropics, solar winds generated spectacular light shows auroras , Arctic air poured across North America, ice sheets and glaciers surged and weather patterns shifted violently. During these events, life on earth was exposed to intense ultraviolet light, Neanderthals and giant animals known as megafauna went extinct, while modern humans sought protection in caves.

The Falloux law of enabled the rise of religious secondary education. The difficult context for the Church, marked by the Dreyfus affair and the law of separation of Church and State , pushed it to seek to regain influence by diffusing moral values in the business world and by training a new generation of business leaders. In this context of struggle of religious congregations, especially Jesuits against the secular and republican ideology of the state, ESSEC was a late Catholic response to the creation of HEC. At its foundation, ESSEC had extensive material resources: small rooms suitable for work in reduced numbers and a chemistry laboratory. The first class had seven students, and study programs lasted two years.