Project Eyeball, 12 September 2000

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    11 1 projecteyeball. eyeball.asiaLcom.sg Mita (p) 077/02/2000 Tuesday, September 12, 2000 80 CENTS
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    Lock icon Pretty maids all in a row
    95 1 It’ll be hard to figure out who attracted more attention at Lina Ng’s grand wedding dinner at the Orchard Hotel last night the bride or her bridesmaids. Decked out in similar gowns and perfectly coiffed and all dolled up, (from left) Kym Ng, Yvonne
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      127 1 Hot mss Is there money for low-profile sports? Sportsmen say it’s an uphill task raising funds for non-traditional pursuits such as mountaineering, flying, shooting, or events like the Eco-Challenge, but should it be a concern of the Government? See Page 3 Is sponsorship a lost cause for low-profile sports? Tell
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      210 1 ‘ldiot!’ Rubens Barrichello (right) calls Heinz-Harald Frentzen an idiot and blames him for the fatal crash at Monza. Frentzen blames Barrichello. David Coulthard blames race organisers. Pedro de la Rosa simply doesn’t know what hit him. The second chicane crash at the Italian Grand Prix has everyone in a tizzy.
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  • News & Views
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      Lock icon QUICKIE
      94 2 STAR of The Gladiator, Russell Crowe, has just earned himself a new title “The Blabiator”. Set to appear in Jodie Foster’s upcoming film Flora Plum, Crowe told Australian TV that his band’s song Other Ways Of Speaking was inspired by Foster. He said it was about “meeting somebody you
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      Lock icon Last respects
      36 2 Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat helps carry the coffin of Bashir Barghouti, a minister in the first Palestinian cabinet and a veteran leader, at his funeral in the West Bank city of Ramallah yesterday. AP
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      Lock icon Telco giants get $2b
      411 2  -  Government compensation for sector’s early liberalisation By Eugene Wee THE Government will shell out almost $2 billion to compensate telecommunications giants SingTel and Star Hub for its decision to bring forward the liberalisation of the local telecommunications market by two years. As a result of the
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      Lock icon Sing Tel shares on a roll
      209 2  -  By Francis Kan SINGTEL shares, which saw a healthy bull run yesterday, are expected to see another rally today, said analysts interviewed last night. This is because some felt that the compensation paid to Sing Tel was more than they had expected. Another reason:
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      Lock icon Where’s the money for adventure sports?
      894 3  -  It’s an uphill task raising funds for less traditional pursuits, say sportsmen By Denyse Yeo SHOW me the money! That’s the common refrain of sportsmen the world over in getting sponsorship. Sadly, it seems to be more a case of “where is the moolah?”
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      Lock icon WHAT CORPORATE FIGURES SAY
      90 3 ‘We also look at their performance and potential performance. And they have to be committed, dedicated and have positive values Melissa Tham Nike’s marketing and communications manager They had attitude, guts and determination. They deserved to be given a chance. BG(NS) BoeyTakHap CEO and president of
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      Lock icon Restore investor confidence, says BG Lee
      422 4  -  THREE STEPS TO A STRONGER ASEAN By Sue-Ann Chia sueann@sph.com.sg THE economic crisis may be behind us, but nagging negative perceptions remain. “The crisis had set back Asean’s economic dynamism and raised doubts about Asean’s credibility and relevance as a regional organisation,” said Acting
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      Lock icon The fun way to pick up Mandarin
      399 4  -  Film fest among the new ideas from the Promote Mandarin Council By Ng Hwee Koon hweekoon@sph.com.sg THE way to a man’s tongue is through “fun and entertainment”, rather than by rote. Well, that’s what the Promote Mandarin Council seems to think at least.
      LawKian Yan  -  399 words
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      Lock icon More govt duties for Abdullah
      195 4 AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad said yesterday he would hand over some duties to his deputy to prepare for the leadership succession. Mahathir, 74, said he would pay more attention to party matters than government-related affairs and might not
      – AFP  -  195 words
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      Lock icon Ancient healing gets an update
      698 6  -  Traditional docs going high-tech By Thao Hua thoath@sph.com.sg THIS is where traditional Chinese medicine meets modern Singapore. It is where ancient ways of healing are carefully packaged and marketed to take advantage of an industry that totalled $72 million in trade last year. At ECM
      Hedy Khoo  -  698 words
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      Lock icon Chicken soup for the body
      473 6 Thao Hua WHEN he was 31, stockbroker Pang Eng Yean never worried about his health. The main drive of his life has always been his career. He worked late hours and weekends, forgot to take meals and was obsessed with numbers. He admitted that he
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      Lock icon Shake your bon bons
      521 7  -  Latin moves heat up dance scene By Denyse Yeo denyse@sph.com.sg SALES engineer Webster Low makes sure he heads down to three different night spots a week. But he isn’t there to guzzle beer or to pull the birds. He’s there to shake his bon bon to
      Desmond Wet  -  521 words
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      Lock icon School rebels with a cause
      658 8  -  More ditch their degrees in favour of dotcoms By Ng Hwee Koon hweekoon@sph.com.sg IN A few more months he would have been awarded his master’s degree. But Richard Goh of iHive could not wait for that. He quit school a year ago to start a
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      165 8 THINKING of quitting school to pursue your dotcom dream? Maybe not yet. These people may have pulled it off with a certain degree of success, but look at what they had firmed up before taking the plunge: Sam and Richard had a team of six founders who
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    • Local LOG
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        131 10 TWO officers from the Animal Control Section of the former Primary Production Department were fined $7,000 each for negligently causing the death of a 59-year-old man while shooting stray dogs. Loh Kar Seng, 43, a technical support officer and Heng Bak Tong, 56, a dog shooter, were putting
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        99 10 A MEDICAL researcher who has been a paraplegic since the age of two has won the Asean Youth Service award for community service. The award recognises outstanding contributions by Asean youth and youth organisations in regional development and cooperation. Dr Tan, an accomplished wheelchair athlete, has been
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        110 10 SONY Singapore yesterday sacked 15 employees from its consumer service division because of falling repairs and a decline in product prices. The retrenched employees are mainly technicians and support staff in their late 30s and 40s. Two were women. Sony said that fewerrepairs in the division
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      187 10 Twenty-nine charged with ‘waging war’ against Malaysian king AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia’s first ever treason trial started yesterday with 29 members of the Islamic Al-Ma’unah cult appearing in court to answer charges of “waging war” against the Malaysian king. The offence is punishable by hanging or
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      Lock icon Celebrity lovematch
      69 10 Orchard Hotel’s ballroom rang with the laughter of lively flower girls last night when popular City Beat host Lina Ng married longtime beau Mike Lam. The star-studded event was attended by 1,000 guests, including Caldecott queen Zoe Lay, and a fashionably late Fann Wong. Log on to to
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    • World WIDE
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        Lock icon Indonesia vows to disarm Timor gangs
        143 10 Reuters JAKARTA Indonesia’s police chief General Rusdihardjo yesterday vowed that the country was ready to disarm the pro-Jakarta gangs, who butchered three United Nations aid workers near the troubled border between East and West Timor. The UN closed its West Timor operations after pro-Jakarta
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        137 10 AP VIENNA Opec’s agreement to boost oil output by 3 per cent may not add enough new crude to world markets to roll fuel prices back from 10-year highs, said industry analysts. Analysts warned that the bulk of the increase, which was roughly
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      449 11 3 Malaysians abducted Wires KOTA KINABALU Just when you thought it was safe to go diving off Malaysia, heavily-armed gunmen have again stormed an East Malaysian dive resort taking three Malaysians hostage and fleeing on Sunday in the second such kidnapping in less than five months.
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      Lock icon 20,000 die in vodka war
      264 11 RUSSIAN WOE AFP MOSCOW A vodka war is raging in Russia. Distillers have been killed, hundreds of thousands of illicit bottles seized and more than 20,000 people have died since January after drinking bootleg liquor. The “kings of vodka” are locked in a ruthless struggle
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      Lock icon High-tech race in Sydney
      328 13 Sports firms try to do outdo each other Washington Post SYDNEY Every Olympic Games promises to reveal which athletes are the strongest and fastest and reach the highest heights. The Sydney Games, which begin this week, may carve out a new category of excellence: Who is
      – Washington Post  -  328 words
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      Lock icon WHO’S WEARING WHAT
      181 13 Swimmings Jenny Thompson, Michael Klim, Amy van Dyken Speedo’s shark suits, body suits with V-shaped ridges that look and feel like shark skin. Athletics: Marion Jones, Cathy Freeman Nike’s sleek, hooded, speed suits that warm and compress muscles for enhanced performance. Donovan Bailey, Ato Boldon Adidas shoes
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      Lock icon Olympian, 103, returns flag he stole
      529 13 US DIVER KEPT HIS ‘PRIZE’ FOR 80 YEARS Reuters But these are only the most obvious of the multitude of scientifically designed and lab-produced apparel to be unveiled at the Olympics. The Games are the ultimate fashion runway and technological testing ground for sports
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      Lock icon Good guys play dirty tricks too
      499 14 Big bugging operation helps New York police nab mobsters NYT NEW YORK Ever wondered how undercover police detectives make sure that a reputed mob figure whom they are investigating sits at the right table in a fast-food restaurant the one that’s bugged? Well, police
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      126 14 THE lengths that the police went to nab their man: Robert Callus, 40, the primary investigator on the case, known as Operation Textbook, convinced the judge that he could direct his target to the bugged table with a series of careful chess-like moves. He occupied and vacated certain tables and
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      Lock icon Melbourne protest turns ugly
      43 14 Reuters A protester in a wash symbolising money-driven corporate types (above) demonstrating against the World Economic Forum conference in Melbourne, Australia. Another protester (left) was among those severely beaten up in a street clash with the state police. AFP
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      Lock icon Black market discounts on fertility drugs
      456 14 PATIENTS BUY AND SELL ON INTERNET LAT-WP WASHINGTON As increasing numbers of women seek treatment for infertility, sky-high costs and skimpy insurance coverage have created a thriving underground market in patient-to-patient drug sales. Thousands, it seems, are obtaining fertility drugs at discount prices from
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      Lock icon Recovery before luxury
      58 16 Some two dozen Indonesian protesters burning a mock car in front of an exhibition of luxury cars in downtown Jakarta yesterday. The group was protesting against the sale of luxury cars while most of the country is still suffering from the impact oj the economic crisis which
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      Lock icon Bulls&Bears
      82 16 Straits Times Index (STI) Top 3 Active VOLUME CENTS SingTel 11,452,000 278.0 Federal 10,903,000 26.0 PacCent MLCW*****5 5,701,000 12.5 Top 3 Gainers CENTS SPH100 2810 50 1.8 SPH 2810 30 1.1 DBS 2160 30 1.4 Total number of gainers: 53 Top 3 Losers CENTS PacCent 2070 -140 -6.3 Venture
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      Lock icon BIZ SITE OF THE DAY
      169 16  -  Francis Kan www.go-events, com YOU’VE just got an e-mail (or a holler) from your boss who wants to know when and where Singapore Comdex is going to be held this year. And, he wants to know it now! Well before you trip over yourself looking
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      Lock icon Insurers’ savings plans worth looking at
      476 16  -  Before investing in a virtual bank, check out brick-and-mortar offerings By Francis Kan francisk@sph.com.sg INTERNET-ONLY bank finatiQ, shook up the staid fixed-deposit (FD) market when it introduced its 3 per cent guaranteed-return product currently the highest in the market earlier this year. But before
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      Lock icon THE LOWDOWN
      90 18 They may be from the same family, but there are some notable differences between them. Eyeball checks out Motorola’s new Timeport P 7689 (far right) and the VBOBB and gives you the lowdown: Talktime: V 808& Three hours talktime; 100 hours standby P 7689: Three hours talktime; 140
      Law Kian Yan  -  90 words
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      Lock icon Motorola is out-WAP-ped
      488 18 Nokia phones beat its offerings MOTOROLA’S new cellphones, the VBOBB and Timeport P 7689, were both designed with an eye on the future. Nice try, but Nokia still beats both in the SMS and userfriendliness department. THE VBOBB THE successor to the V 3688, the VBOBB follows
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      Lock icon Slide in online ads hurts Yahoo!
      688 18 VALUE DROPS $18 BILLION SAN FRANCISCO A slowdown in online advertising is translating into a painful comedown for the Internet’s glamour stock, Yahoo! Corp, and other popular websites that sell ads to pay their bills. The Santa Clara-based company’s market value has plunged by
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      Lock icon Cellphone Net soon
      220 19 Microsoft, Ericsson team up AFP MICROSOFT has stepped into the WAP ring with telecom firm Ericsson to make Internet access through cellphones available worldwide by the end of the year. The deal between the two industry leaders, announced yesterday, marks Microsoft’s entry into the wireless communications sector,
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      Lock icon Hale and hearty
      42 19 AFP A smiling Peter Houghton, 61, holding the revolutionary Jarvik 2000 artificial heart, similar to the one implanted in him in June at Oxford’s John Radcliffe Hospital. The tiny implement gave Houghton, from Edgbaston, a new lease of life.
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    • Tech FILES
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        Lock icon Rid your Palm of viruses
        88 19 CHANNEL News Asia (http://www.channelnews asia.com) reported that software firm Symantec has announced the beta release of the world’s first anti-virus technology for the Palm OS platform. Symantec Anti Virus examines the applications stored on your Palm and searches for malicious agents like viruses and worms.
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        Lock icon Card numbers stolen
        91 19 HACKERS have stolen the credit card numbers of over 15,000 customers of Western Union, a money-transferring company, said a report on CNet.com. The information was pinched from the company’s website which was left unprotected while in maintenance. No cases of fraud stemming from the theft have been
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        Lock icon Going mobile
        40 19 Reuters A man looking past a billboard promoting foreign cellphones in central Beijing yesterday. China Telecom wants to lay off 200,000 staff from its over half -a-million workforce in a drive to be ‘internationally competitive’ within five years.
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        Lock icon Undress for popularity
        124 19 A REPORT on CNN’s website (http://www.cnn.com) said that the Guinness Book Of Records has split its “Most Downloaded Woman on the Web” category in two- one for free sites and one for pay sites. The Most Downloaded Woman from a paid site is Web entrepreneur Danni Ashe,
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        Lock icon For the benefit of Asian surfers
        73 19 LYCOS Asia has launched a new product that aims to help Asian surfers better manage their Internet lifestyle. In a report carried by ZDNet Asia (http://zdnetasia.com), the product, called Lycos Asia Contact, is a suite of free services available in English and Chinese. Contact
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        64 19 WARNER Music Group plans to sell digital downloads of 100 songs, starting November. A report on ZDNet.com said that artistes whose works can be purchased through the Net include Paul Simon and Barenaked Ladies. Warner is also expected to expand its online catalogue to over
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      Lock icon Gamelord now plays for money
      500 20  -  ‘Thresh’ goes into business instead SALON.COM By David Kushner DENNIS “Thresh” Fong is the Michael Jordan of electronic gamers. Over the past several years, Fong has proved unbeatable in Doom and Quake tournaments, scoring everything from a Microsoft sponsorship to a Ferrari donated by the
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      Lock icon Computer mags lose charm in Net age
      654 20  -  By Scott Rosenberg LAST month I let my subscription to PC Magazine lapse. Subscriptions come and go, but this was no short-term dalliance. I’d been getting the magazine for about a decade and a half, since the days when a 386-processor-based system was
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      Lock icon What price culture ?
      464 21  - What price culture By Jeannette Ng jeanng@sph.com.sg ‘Shakespeare doesn’t pay’ (Aug 31) If It can’t be cashed, don’t bother* (Sept 5) A WWW, it’s been tough for that much-maligned something called “literature”. Pradas, Porsches, Cold Storage groceries and Delifrance sandwiches have so far been found to be way more important
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      Lock icon Writers, try e-books
      500 22 ‘E-books yet to make headway in Singapore’ (Sept 11) LET me put the e-books issue into perspective. A common misconception of an e-book is a gadget (the size of a PDA) that has to be lugged around. Allow me to introduce a great website: http://aalbc.com/ ebooks/ Allaboutebooks.htm
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      343 22 ALEX TAN ‘ls the Government more willing to listen now? 1 (Sept 6) JUDGING from the Government’s response to public views (including Catherine Lim’s article), it may be said that the Government is more tolerant to its detractors. But it is just being tolerant. We
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      Lock icon Two ratings better than one cut movie
      199 22 SHOCKWAVE ‘Film cuts big bucks’ (Sept 7) DIRECTORS and producers know that the two key ingredients for a potential blockbuster are sex and violence. Controversial movies perpetually attract sizeable crowds. Basic Instinct and Natural Born Killers are classic examples. Film distributors are profit-driven.
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      20 2 What do you think Singtel and Starhub should do with the money? Go to httpV/eyebalL asial.com.sg to post your comments.
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      53 3 Is sponsorship a lost cause for low-profile sports? What is your take on the matter? Share your views at http://eyeball. asial.com.sg Read what Everest mountaineering pioneer David Lim has to say about adventure sports getting funding from government bodies in his recent letter to The Straits Times. At http://straitstimes.asial. com.sg/forum/
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      21 4 Go to www.sfs.org.sg/schedule.htm for the Chinese-language film festival schedule and synopses. For a round-up of Speak Mandarin campaign activities visit httiK//eyebalLasial.com.sg
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      220 7 Combining 2nd generation Internet with the latest mobile solutions plus the latest e-business solutions, equals state of the art networks, devices and services, all from the same source. Worldwide only Siemens can make it all add up. See how your business can profit at: www.siemens.com/mobile-business He won't shop in supermarkets
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      6 7 »See also Pages 27 and 28
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      252 9 I 1 '■JmmmSk llili SSli® MM mmm m m n am 11 ■1 u w m 7am: Checks the l|cal st as he gets rejady to *****1 El ■I 11 xxx*-: k mmmmmA 2pm: Prepares his closing argt Bpm: Runs him through his X m ■R iff» >* < tr.;x
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      137 11 Click on httpV/eyebalL adalimi^ for details of this latest security crisis, as well as a chronology of the hostage situation. http://www.mir. com.mv/potpourri/ places/mpwong/ destination/ p pandanan/ A site that shows why the islands off Sabah, eastern Malaysia, are such hot diving spots. SI 11 «jL 1 s A cubicle. mm
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      112 12 ir- W-- Before investing in permanent hands-free technology, log on to asiaonemarkets.com i==markets www.asiaonemarkets.com Asia’s new one-stop investment site has all the tools you need to make smarter investment decisions. Brought to you by SPH Asia One and The Business Times, it gives you credible and up-to-the-minute information on stocks,
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      51 13 http://www.discover.com/sept 00/ featsweat.html It’s not just the sweat factor which will help the US team shave seconds. Learn about the team’s edge. http://www.speedo.com View Speedo’s Olympic catalogue for men and women. http://www.converse.com/technology/ Converse’s new materials technology has taken on Nike’s air-filled shoes. Read on. http://www.adidas.Com/technology/main f.htm The Adidas high-tech gear
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      48 14 Learn more about the issue of infertility from the following websites: http:// www.ihr.com/ infertility/provider A look at the criteria of choosing an infertility clinic. Plus a list of clinics in US, UK, Canada and Australia. http:/ www.aboutinfertilitv.com/ infertility-specialists.htm Rules of thumb to decide when to seek infertility treatment.
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      243 15 I I MMaiißii iH > B M ■:-:i V V MB m m Jk. v s -v f:<: !;n m m r,p -•awsw^j > *lll si H HH m ~j ■i KW aaWMBMPP p;« I Redeem for a free KFC value meal every time you purchase ahp ink cartridge* from
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      307 17 All trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Cas, a wider satewnetfoci 005 SL J WmmMm ■m xz m. i Dreaded scenario: Sudden loss of crucial corporate information. Wrecks endless havoc. Desired solution: Tandberg DLTI. A tape backup subsystem that safely manages and preserves your data. How’s this for
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      42 20 My dotcom magazines have fallen on me and I can’t get up. Ad-fat magazines like Red Herring and Industry Standard have swelled to telephone-book size. But who has time to read 3,000 pages a month? Log on to www.salon.com/ tech/feature/ 2000/03/21/net magazines/index.html
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      167 21 NEC Monitors lmagi nation. ]SoI uti ons. 99 f 2000 VENBTOfIWftBBsX w:\imir wards The complete range of LCD CRT monitors follows the tradition of quality and reliability set by previous generations of NEC award-winning monitors to give you peace of mind. NEC monitors are designed for superior display quality which
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  • EyeSport
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      343 23 EUROPEAN CHAMPIONS’ LEAGUE Wires PARIS Real Madrid has got itself into financial strife and it has to save itself the only way it knows on the football field. The European champions have piled up massive debts that have led to doubts about
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      758 23 Italian GP ‘should have been stopped’ Wires MCLAREN’S David Coulthard has hit out at Italian Grand Prix organisers for refusing to stop the race following a second-corner crash that left a fire safety marshall dead. The much-maligned Monza track’s Formula One future is under a cloud
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        339 24 Chelsea boss Vialli willing to pay $10m, says report Wires WEST Ham could be forced to part with Paolo Di Canio to help ease their financial situation. Italian newspapers reported on Sunday that Chelsea manager Gianluca Vialli would be willing to pay as much
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        Lock icon Women are closing the gap
        399 24  -  OLYMPIC GAMES By Adam Hashidy hashidy@sph.com.sg NOT too long ago, the Olympics was all about men. We gasped at their sculpted arms, bumpy abs and jagged quads as they tried to get faster, further and higher. But the genetic landscape has altered and, fortunately, the
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        93 25 AFP THE multi-million-dollar Olympic Games business is booming, International Olympic Committee vice-president and marketing supremo Dick Pound said yesterday in Sydney. Income is well above the revenue from the 1996 Atlanta Games, and television coverage is expected to total 40 billion viewer hours, Pound told lOC members attending
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        65 25 Reuters WORLD shotput champion C J Hunter, husband of Marion Jones, has withdrawn from the Sydney Olympics because of a knee injury. “Marion and I had been looking forward to competing together in Sydney, but injuries are part of the game,” Hunter said by telephone from Los
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        Lock icon Dream Team rests
        47 25 AP THE US Olympic men’s basketball team cancelled practice yesterday as thousands of protesters surrounded their hotel in Melbourne in demonstrations against an economic conference held at the same site. The US Women’s team, however, walked through the crowds to get to their bus.
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      476 25 Swimming coach says dope helps them Wires SYDNEY Australian coach Don Talbot applauded as his star swimmers were marched away for drug testing. Talbot can’t do anything else. He is one of the most vocal antiChina... oops, anti-drug campaigners around. He has to stand and
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      199 25 -AFP SYDNEY Here’s a novel way of making extra cash, especially if you are a judge for amateur boxing. Ask someone to bribe you, show proof to the International Amateur Boxing Association (Aiba) that an attempted bribe took place, and it will reward
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      503 26  -  Safin plays near-flawless game to capture US Open By Adam Hashidy hashidy@sph.com.sg NOT bad. A champion with the forehand and the looks to kill. To be honest, I didn’t really notice Marat Safin’s presence on the circuit until last weekend. But then you only notice the stars when
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      475 26 CANADIAN OPEN AFP OAKVILLE, Ontario It’s no longer only about Tiger Woods winning. It’s also about the people who try to stop him from winning. Just as relative unknown Bob May pushed Woods at the PGA Championship in Valhalla, New Zealander Grant Waite stretched the Tiger
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      1292 27 rpna IVE I decades ago, the I only dance that existed here probably involved the horizontal hokey pokey. Then came rock n’ roll, Elvis Presley and Cliff Richard. The Republic’s feet started getting vertical. Women moved their bodies to the the beat. Men followed suit, anxious to keep
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        236 28  -  YMCA, 430 2288, http://www.ymca.org.sg Beginners: Wednesdays 7-8.15 pm; cost: $64.89 members, $67.98 non-members. Attitude Dance Studio, 220-8096, 70 Palmer Road, 01-05 Beginners: Classes start on Sept 21 and 23 from 7-8.15 pm; cost: $12 per hour, or $85 for eight lessons. Brix at the Hyatt on
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        730 29 Do you go weak at a face full of fur? Or do you loathe it for being in the way of a smooth tickle-free kiss? TAN DAWN will (dawntan@sph.com.sg) tries to convince you that hirsute men are the real thing. EN with facial
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          59 29 AND all along you thought that long hours at the keyboard caused the carpal tunnel syndrome. The syndrome, which is similar to tendonitis in that it causes aching along the fingers and wrists, is more likely to afflict women who wear a B-cup or larger, according to fitness
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          116 29 THE blue pill might be a hard sell nowadays, but it might help women make babies. A preliminary study published in medical journal Human Reproduction reports that Viagra, crushed and placed in vaginal suppositories, increases blood flow to the uterus and helps women get pregnant. Dr
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          90 29 TREATMENT for guys who can’t get it up has come a long way. Yes, Viagra is the drug of choice for underperforming stags now, but according to Men’s Health magazine, impotence was treated with more archaic methods back in ancient times. Druids treated impotence by drinking sap from
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          89 29 GENDER equality watchdogs take note: Men and women might more or less be equal, but they still do different exercises. According to Men’s Fitness magazine, women prefer to dance in leotards while men would rather play with bows and arrows. For every man in a step-aerobics class in
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        855 31 Is shopping better than sex? RONALD RAJAN (ronrajan@sph.com.sg) ponders this and other questions with Beatrice Chia and R J Ronzalesfrom How Much Is That Man In The Window, a play for the fashionable. If I break up with some guy, or didn’t get a job that’s it. And
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          88 31 GIVE yourself some credit. Disposable credit. American Express announced its latest strategy for anyone who’s ever lusted after online couture, but had doubts about divulging that P&C number. Amex’s Private Payments system works easily enough the company will provide a number that allows buyers to
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          85 31 THE powers wielding the wands of fashion have decided: Luxury has a place online. Creators oflux.com in the US are targeting fashionistas the world over, with a chi-chi online boutique that features fashion’s biggest brands Dolce Gabbana, Versace, Vivienne Westwood, Valentino you name it. European cybershoppers
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          94 31 AFTER 18 years in the modelling business, fashion’s sexiest mole has now become queen of the hill, with a whopping US$33 million ($56.76 million) to her name. Cindy Crawford, 34 and a mother, edged Australian beauty Elle Macpherson into the No 2 spot, just ahead of
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          68 31  -  Serene Goh THE bodacious Laetitia Casta, Victoria’s Secret lingerie catalogue siren, is getting big. Big-screen, that is. The French model announced she was retiring from the catwalk to focus on a movie career. The 22-year-old madamoiselle cut her teeth on Asterix And Obelix;
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        301 32 Colour and cleavage were the order of the day at the Emmy Awards, Hollywood's second biggest reason to dress up after the Oscars. JEANMARTCTAN (jeanm@sph.com.sg) reports. OT OCCURS to me the Emmy herself is not unlike the woman in Sex And The City. Everybody wants to get
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        680 33 West Wing scored a landslide victory in this years Emmys, an event marked hy upsets and new winners. JEANWARIE TAN (jeanm@sphxom.sg) reports. HE jury is appeased. T Trying desperately to redeem itself from a predictable, fuddy-duddy image, this year’s Emmys delivered by rewarding hip, new contenders instead of
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          68 34 THE La Mer mystique continues with three new additions, but like their predecessor, they don’t come cheap. The Face Serum ($350) promises to infuse skin with brightness and vitamins for a new clarity. The Body Serum ($300) aims to banish uneven skin tone and discolouration. The Body Lotion
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          50 34 OKAY men, ’fess up. You do age and what you’d call “character lines” are actually wrinkles. Which you can get rid of now, thanks to Polo Sport’s Eye Fitness Complete Eye Therapy, an advanced eye gel that reduces puffiness and dark circles. At $23, from leading department stores.
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          65 34 LOEWE celebrates autumn and winter with accents of femininity high-heel sandals and knee-boots teamed with skirts just above the knees; mini dresses and maxi-boots, in a palette of chocolate browns, beiges, pale pinks and ivory. Prices range from $235 for a sleeveless knitted top to $4,110 for
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          89 34  -  CHECK out the Melz Boutique at #O2-10 Orchard Point, the premier store of Meilinda Soetedjo, a Japan-trained fashion designer. It sports a kaleidoscopic range of ladies’ apparel and accessories such as bags and crystal jewellery. And among her imported labels are names like Axara, VieTaVie, Jus d’Orange
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        500 34 Are tattoos a social stigma or a fashion statement? DOMINIC ONG (domong@sph.com.sg) attempts to find the answer at Body Art Asia in Thailand. 9TH-CENTURY L H merchant sailors wore I tattoos as talismans to j protect themselves. flHHHi Till today, many Burmese believe that a tattoo over
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      232 35 INVESTIGATORS at a major research institution have discovered the heaviest element known to science. This startling new discovery has been tentatively named Administratium (Ad). This new element has no protons or electrons, thus having an atomic number of 0. It does, however, have 1 neutron, 125 assistant
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      734 35 1 SeXy marks the spot when Antonio Banderas and Catherine Zeta-Jones do a little sword fighting in The Mask ofZorro. Movies The Mask Of Zorro 6.45 pm HBO 60 The dashing masked swordsman, who first appeared in a 1919 newspaper comic, returns to the big screen. An ageing Zorro escapes
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      338 36 MEGASTAR Mariah Carey reveals she has been homeless for It two years, reported the Sun yesterday. The sultry diva has lived j out of suitcases since splitting 7 ill with hubby Tommy Mottola. PyiSsk The longest she has §||k stayed in the same place
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