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  • 12 1 TODAY on Sunday INCORPORATING INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY MAY 29, 2011 www.todayonline.com MICA(P) 199/02/2011
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    • 757 1 AUTHOR, PUNDIT, LOVER OF LIFE the St Regis perspectives 8-9 Catherine Lim She has a busy social life filled with lunches and dinners with girlfriends, family and yes, it is true, the many suitors who want her attention. NOT JUST LUXURY TRAVEL BUT BESPOKE the finer life 6 SURVIVING CANCER,
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  • 1491 2  -  They’ll be two of Singapore’s best-loved ‘migrants’ when they make their way here next year. Sheralyn Tay and photographer Ong Wan Shu (try to) get up close with the giant panda cubs sundayspecial sheralyn tay todayonsunday@mediacorp.com.sg FOR a beast named for Beauty, she was
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  • 605 5  -  SHERALYN TAY AS THE rain fell, the mother panda hugged her cub close to her body. Without any shelter in the leafy thicket, she did all she could to keep her baby warm in the wet. Looking on, researchers from the Ya’an Bifengxia Panda
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  • 572 6  -  Today’s luxury traveller wants to customise his own off-the-beaten-track itinerary thefinerlife chan seet fun todayonsunday@mediacorp.com.sg A holiday in Italy can be a lot more memorable if you have an audience with the Pope and maybe a personalised cooking lesson by an Italian chef at his
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    • 256 7 The allure and charm of East Coast Living the? sound SHORE FREEHOLD RES DENCES I Kll B *5; .1«► i v u: “Sstgki ir ea 5- s i? CM in ;rs* iSS33 »i aii i -I' i i u in -a iaac K» isasr I5SK '"Hi, jail '"Hi 1 5
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  • 1382 8 She may be pushing 70 but the effervescent author and political commentator who recently grabbed attention with her blog posts on the General Election has a zest for life that puts someone half her age to shame, Crispina Robert the perspectives Dr Catherine Lim saunters
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  • 1086 10  -  Breast cancer. An aneurysm. Heart failure. Any one of those would be hard enough to deal with but all three? Phylicia Lee talks to the woman who survived and rediscovered life faceinthecrowd phylicia lee todayonsunday@mediacorp.com.sg It began when Jessie Tan discovered she had breast cancer in
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  • 835 11  -  parenttoparent Jason Wong Jason Wong is part of the team involved in setting up the Dads for Life movement. A large part of my working life was spent behind bars as a prison officer. For 17 years, I was surrounded by inmates from different backgrounds;
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    725 12  -  The fear and loathing of a Twitter newbie in slightly more than 140 characters speakeasy phin wong phin wong todayonsunday@mediacorp.com.sg The writer is the features editor at Today. They didn’t take it well. I was hoping the people I call my friends would listen to what I had to
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  • HOT NEWS
    • 179 13 REUTERS China’s courts have been ordered to raise the severity of punishments for food safety crimes, including capital punishment for cases involving fatalities, Xinhua reported. The court’s directive appeared to be a move to regain public confidence after a series of food safety
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    • 257 13  -  SHARON SEE Thirteen Malay youths yesterday received a total of almost S$10,000 worth of study grants for being well-rounded students. Presenting the awards last night, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said the grants are a good way to encourage students
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    • 106 13  -  SABRINA CHAN The former Senior Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Mr Zainul Abidin Rasheed, has said he will not be running for President. He was asked at a community event in Eunos if he was planning to contest the coming Presidential Election,
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    • 244 13 AP RAFAH (Gaza Strip) After four years, Egypt yesterday permanently opened the Gaza Strip’s main gateway to the outside world, bringing long-awaited relief to the territory’s Palestinian population and a significant achievement for the area’s ruling Hamas militant group. The reopening of the Rafah
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    • 260 14  -  HETTY MUSFIRAH SINGAPORE Singapore will continue to offer novel experiences for visitors and grow its calendar of world-class events as it maintains its competitive edge in the tourism sector, said Trade and Industry Minister Lim Hng Kiang yesterday. Speaking at the
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    • 162 14  -  SATISH CHENEY SINGAPORE The Ministry of Defence will continue to focus on defence diplomacy and work with like-minded countries, said new Defence Minister Ng Eng Hen. Another focus, he said, is to engage National Service men. Dr Ng added that he has asked Minister of
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    • 124 14 The Traffic Police arrested 16 motorists yesterday during a five-hour anti-drink driving blitz. Between midnight and about 4.30am, officers conducted checks beyond the usual areas such as Clarke Quay. In all, 93 motorists took the breathalyser test but 16 of them —14
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    • 130 14 A 31-year-old Indian national was arrested for trying to bribe a police officer. The police said at about 8.40pm on Friday, officers responded to an incident at a coffeeshop in Little India in which a 51-year-old man accused the suspect of stealing
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    • 117 15 REUTERS An Egyptian court yesterday fined ousted President Hosni Mubarak and two former officials 540 million Egyptian pounds (S$$112 million) for cutting off mobile and Internet services during antigovernment protests in January, a court source said. The administrative court fined Mubarak
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    • 195 15 AP WASHINGTON The Obama administration on Friday declined to cite China for manipulating its currency to gain trade advantages against the United States but said the pace of the yuan’s rise against the US dollar needs to be accelerated. The Treasury
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    • 149 15 AP A suicide bomber attacked a provincial governor’s compound yesterday in northern Afghanistan, killing at least four Afghans and wounding members of the international military coalition, officials said. The explosion happened as officials were meeting in the governor’s office complex in Takhar province. Among those killed
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    • 147 15 AP Japan and the European Union agreed at a summit meeting yesterday to begin negotiations on a free trade agreement that would deepen economic ties between two of the world’s largest economies. As a bloc, the EU is the world’s largest economy; Japan
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    • 143 15 AP A suicide bomber targeted pro-government tribal elders in Pakistan’s north-western frontier yesterday, killing eight men. This comes a day after United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, during a visit here, implored Pakistanis to take decisive steps to fight terrorism. Ten others
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    • 200 16 REUTERS BOSTON Unknown hackers have broken into the security networks of Lockheed Martin and several other American military contractors. It was not immediately clear what kind of data, if any, was stolen by the hackers. But Lockheed’s and other military contractor networks house sensitive data
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    • 200 16 AP BEIJING An American held in North Korea for half a year for reportedly proselytising has been freed. Mr Eddie Jun was handed over yesterday to a United States envoy who said Washington had not promised to provide aid in exchange for
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    • 304 16 THE GUARDIAN PARIS An Air France jet that crashed into the Atlantic claiming 228 lives dropped 11,600m in three-and-a-half minutes before slamming belly first into the ocean. French air accident experts published a chilling chronology of events that showed the three Air France
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    • 1634 16  -  COMMENTARY PARAG KHANNA Parag Khanna is a senior research fellow at the New America Foundation and author of How to Run the World. This article first appeared on ForeignPolicy.com. It is impossible to write a political obituary of someone who not only has
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  • SPORTS
    • 770 18 SaleCheck out what’s on the EPL Big Six’s shopping ARSENAL In a departure from past seasons, Arsene Wenger has been linked with over 2,000 names this time. Perhaps the media are sensing that this could be a watershed summer by Arsenal’s standards that this time, they’re really
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    • 205 20 MONACO Formula 1 world champion Sebastian Vettel took pole position for the Monaco Grand Prix yesterday after a qualifying session overshadowed by a serious accident involving Mexican Sergio Perez. The pole was the 20th of Vettel’s F1 career, his fifth of the season, first
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    • 297 20 THE GUARDIAN The best car They had the best car last season in truth they made winning both championships look harder than it should have been and therefore had the least development to do to stay ahead of the pack.
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    • 229 20 AP Novak Djokovic looked to be back to his best at the French Open yesterday, extending his perfect season to 40 straight wins with a 6-3, 3-6, 6-3, 6-2 victory over Juan Martin del Potro. Djokovic, who has not lost in 42 matches
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    • 233 20 AP FIFA vice-president Jack Warner has cautioned that a “football tsunami” will hit the governing body, as he prepares to face a bribery hearing today alongside presidential candidates Sepp Blatter and Mohamed Hammam. Speaking in his native Trinidad, Warner was quoted as
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  • Page 21 Miscellaneous
    • 1194 21 SUNDAY TV FILMART: POSSESSED okto, 10pm (PG-Horror) College student Hee-jin returns home when her 14-year-old sister So-jin goes missing. Her mother retreats into prayer and refuses to work with the police. Meanwhile, a neighbour commits suicide and leaves a will for So-jin and Hee-jin. The whereabouts of So-jin becomes increasingly
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  • Page 22 Miscellaneous
    • 1925 22 TV LISTINGS MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY CHANNEL CHANNEL CHANNEL 6.00AM Ninja Warrior 6.30 Prime Time Morning 9.30 The Martha Stewart Show VI 10.30 Style By Jury 11.00 Knock First 11.30 Films Stars Asia NOON Under One Roof II 12.30PM Moulmein High 1.00 En Bloc 2.00 Flash Gordon 3.00
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  • Page 23 Miscellaneous
    • 1868 23 3.00PM Samaythal Mattum Pohthuma 3.30 Sathy Leelavathi 4.00 Take It Easy Vazhkai II 4.30 Bandham 5.00 Indian Beat 5.30 Mythilli 6.00 Panchatantra Kathaigal 6.30 Gokulathil Seethai 7.00 Vaira Nenjum 7.30 Ethiroli 8.00 Devathaigal 8.30 Tamil Seithi 9.00 Thulluvatho Elamei 9.30 Uncle Taxi 10.00 Oru Kaithiyin Diary 10.30 Asthram 11.00 Mohe
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  • 571 1  -  LENS TOM BRADY (Tlje -Neto Jlork (Times In 1961, Chevrolet sponsored a 30-minute movie trailer that heralded the country’s creative ingenuity and technical knowhow. “Of all things Americans are, we are makers,” its narrator intoned, over video of boys building a sand castle. “With our
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  • 1131 1  -  Activists Struggle To Impose Their Idea Of Citizenship By ANTHONY SHADID and DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK Anthony Shadid reportedfrom Beirut, and David D. Kirkpatrick from Cairo. HebaAfify contributed reporting from Cairo, and an employee of The New York Times from Damascus, The New York Times Beirut,
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  • WORLD TRENDS
    • 768 2  -  By ELLEN BARRY KURCHATOV, Kazakhstan Twenty years after the Soviet Union collapsed and tens of thousands of soldiers abandoned their posts at this remote site in northeastern Kazakhstan, the footprints of another great power the United States are increasingly visible. The United
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    • 527 2  -  By THOMAS FULLER Sljc JCcUt Jlork Simcs BANGKOK For most of his 17-year career, Somsak Jeamteerasakul was an obscure history professor. On a recent Wednesday, he answered a summons at a police precinct and was met by 50 riot police officers and
      Sljc JCcUt Jlork Simcs; APICHART WEERAWONG/ASSOCIATED PRESS  -  527 words
    • 773 3  -  intelligence/roger ROGER COHEN eljcJCcUt Jlork Stmcs London The American political season has begun. My 13-year-old daughter was onto that in a flash. She took one look at a front-page photograph of Barack Obama drinking a pint of Guinness as he searched for his Irish
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    • 704 3  -  By MARK McDONALD Su-hyun Lee contributed reportingfrom Seoul. Sl)c JfcUr Jlork Simciss DAEJEON, South Korea—South Korea’s most prestigious university is reeling from the suicides of four students and a popular professor. Academic pressures can be ferocious at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology,
      Sl)c JfcUr Jlork Simciss; YONHAP, VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS  -  704 words
    • 794 4  -  By KAREEM FAHIM BENGHAZI, Libya In recent days, after weeks of delays and closed-door meetings, rebel leaders here have announced a slate of new appointments, including a defense chief and a minister for reconstruction and infrastructure. They have added members to a national council, to represent
      Eljc Jfrtu Jlork Stones; ALKIS KONSTANTINIDIS/EUROPEAN PRESSPHOTO AGENCY  -  794 words
    • 705 5  -  By TIM ARANGO, MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT Duraid Adnan and an employee of The New York Times contributed reporting. Sl)c ;Nhu JJork SElmcs SULAIMANIYA, Iraq The pro-democracy protests sweeping the Arab world arrived in the semiautonomous Kurdish region of Iraq nearly three months ago, inspired
      Sl)c ;Nhu JJork SElmcs; AYMAN OGHANNA FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES; THE NEW YORK TIMES  -  705 words
    • 752 6  -  essay BENEDICT CAREY Eljc Jtou Jlork Etmcs The question on many women’s minds in recent weeks was the same cry of outrage that hangs over every male sex scandal: “How could he be such a pig? Only days after
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    • 559 6  -  By STEVEN ERLANGER and MAIA DE LA BAUME el)c •NVtu Jjjork ®u»e s PARIS She was much more famous than her husband, and much wealthier, too. Now Anne Sinclair joins the unhappy club of wives standing by their man in the face of
      el)c •NVtu Jjjork ®u»e s; MICHAEL APPLETON FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES  -  559 words
    • 651 9  -  By JOSH KRON SljeJfau Jjork Euncs ATEK, Uganda When the American government began an organic-farming program to help rural economies here, Bosco Acope prospered: the half hectare he used to farm became three. But the very next year, with Uganda facing unrelenting malaria, its
      SljeJfau Jjork Euncs; MARC HOFER FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES  -  651 words
    • 614 9  -  By ALEXEI BARRIONUEVO Myrna Domit contributed Sljc Jfau Jlork Smncs SÃO PAULO, Brazil In a decade working as a nanny, Andreia Soares finally joined Brazil’s middle class. With the money she saved, she bought a two-bedroom apartment with granite kitchen countertops and a small
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    • 710 7 iturdny Wednesday Monday Sunday Tuesday FRIDAY Thursday Saturday Thursday Monday Tuesday Saturday SUNDAY Friday We< .inday Tuesdoy Thursday MONDAY Saturday Tuesday Friday Wednesday Tuesday Monday Saturday Thursday Sunday Friday Tuesday Suti ednesday Monday Sunday Tuesday FRIDAY Thursday Saturday Thursday Monday Tuesday Saturday SUNDAY Friday Wednesday Si iesdoy Thursday MONDAY Saturday
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  • BUSINESS OF GREEN
    • 813 8  -  By TOM ZELLER Jr. EIk Jfctu Jlork Euncs Natural gas, with its reputation as a linchpin in the effort to wean the United States off fossil fuels and reduce global warming, may not be as clean as its proponents say.
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    • 501 8  -  ESSay BRYAN BURROUGH el)c isc\v Jlork Shncs The idea that “going green” could actually be profitable, a notion put forth by economists as long as 20 years ago, remains a source of skepticism in some quarters. If you still need convincing, pick up Edward
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    • 658 10  -  By ALISON GREGOR eljcJsVut Jtjork Elmcs PISCATAWAY, New Jersey Since the economic downturn, residents and businesses have been looking for ways to use real estate that may no longer appeal to developers or home builders. One option is to build solar energy
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    • 651 10  -  By STEPHANIE CLIFFORD and ANDREW MARTIN Sljc iNcUt Jlork Elmcs When Clorox introduced Green Works, its environment-friendly cleaning line, in 2008, sales that year topped $100 million. Several other major consumer products companies came out with their own “green” cleaning supplies. But as recession gripped
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  • SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
    • 1322 12  -  By PAM BELLUCK 551je Jtoir Jjork Ehncs Scientists are trying to understand what makes music expressive, and the results are contributing to a greater understanding of the brain and of the importance of music in human development, communication and
      551je Jtoir Jjork Ehncs; YANNICK GRANDMONT FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES; ILLUSTRATION BY MILTON GLASER  -  1,322 words
    • 707 13  -  By NATALIE ANGIER el)c Jfrtu Jlork Etmcs Researchers lately have learned that serotonin plays an impressive number of critical roles throughout the body, including the remodeling of bone. When, for instance, they used a drug to reduce serotonin in osteoporotic mice, the animals’
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    • 673 13  -  By NICHOLAS WADE el)e Jfctu llork Eimcs An improvement in the dating of fossils suggests that the Neanderthals, a heavily muscled, thickboned human species adapted to living in ice age Europe, perished almost immediately on contact with modern humans who started to enter Europe
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  • AMERICANA
    • 632 14  -  By RANDY KENNEDY Eljc iNhu Jiork elmcs Six 18-wheeler trucks will soon be crossing America, transporting not goods, but art, fresh from studios, pens and cameras. The program, a roving museum and performance space conceived by the painter Eric Fischl, will tour for two
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    • 767 14  -  By SABRINA TAVERNISE Sl)c iNhu Jiork elmcs PORTSMOUTH, Ohio This industrial town was once known for shoes and steel. But after decades of decline it is now home to some of the highest rates of prescription drug overdoses in the state, and growing
      Sl)c iNhu Jiork elmcs; ANDREA MORALES FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES  -  767 words
    • 741 15  -  By SUSAN SAULNY EljcJsVUt Jlork ®tme$ HATTIESBURG, Mississippi For generations here in the deepest South, there had been a great taboo: publicly crossing the color line for love. Less than 45 years ago, mar- riage between blacks and whites was illegal, and it has
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    • 532 15  -  By CAMPBELL ROBERTSON Sl)c iNc\u Jlork ®tme$ EAGLE LAKE, Mississippi On the lakefront sits a low metal building, Strick’s. It is the only business still open in Eagle Lake. And starting at 2 o’clock every afternoon and running into the evening, every person
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  • ARTS & STYLES
    • 865 16  -  By JON PARELES EljeJfcUf JEjork Elmcs David Bowie developed a new guise for each album, Madonna for each song release; Lady Gaga seems to have one for every news cycle. The cavalcade of outfits churned out by her Haus of Gaga splashes
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    • 701 16  -  By DENNIS LIM El)e iNcUt JEjork Elmcs CANNES, France —The winner of the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival this year is only the fifth movie in 38 years by Terrence Malick, a reclusive director who has not given an interview since the 1970s.
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