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Four people with deck chairs, sleeping bags and a small tent started queuing on Tuesday night outside the Auckland shop of phone company Vodafone, the New Zealand Herald reported.
 
Vodafone, New Zealand's biggest mobile-phone operator, will start selling the much-hyped and keenly sought 3G iPhone at 12.01 a.m. Friday (1:01 p.m. Thursday British time), the first in the world, from three of its shops in New Zealand's main cities.
 
"I'm really just doing it to be able to say that I'm the first one in the world with one of these phones," 22-year old student Jonny Gladwell told the newspaper.
 
He said he was in the queue because his friends had bet him he could not last the distance. If he lasts, they will buy him the phone. In the meantime they are bringing him meals and holding his place in the queue when he needs a toilet break.
 
Vodafone is selling the phone for as little as NZ$199 (101 pounds) if consumers sign up for a two-year contract. Demand for pricing details was so heavy it crashed Vodafone's New Zealand Web site on Tuesday.
 
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Everyone knows what too much television can do to the mind and what too little exercise can do to the body, but a Canadian study has now shown that the boob tube can also lead to an increase in how much we eat.
 
Studying childhood obesity, University of Toronto nutritionist Harvey Anderson found that kids who watched TV while eating lunch took in 228 extra calories than those who ate without the television on.
 
"One of Anderson's conclusions is that eating while watching television overrides our ability to know when to stop eating," the Canadian Institutes for Health Research, which funded the study, said on Tuesday.
 
"In effect, mindless television watching produces mindless eating. ... Anderson has some immediate advice for parents -- turn the television off during mealtime."
 
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