Project Eyeball, 5 October 2000

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    11 1 projecteyeball. eyeball.asial.com.sg Mita (p) 077/02/2000 Thursday, October 5, 2000 80 CENTS
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      184 1 Hot LINKS Big Bine sets pace concerning family leave Over the past decade, IBM employees have been able to take five days of paid leave each year over and above their annual-leave entitlements to deal with family situations. This policy has helped the company handle the recent closure of child-care
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      260 1 Ace sprinter willing to run for Singapore Sprinter Susanthika Jayasinghe (right), who won a bronze medal in the women’s 200m in Sydney, says she’s ready to go for gold in Singapore colours at the 2004 Athens Games. Susanthika has said she’s had enough of the sports powers-that-be in Sri Lanka.
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      200 2 PARENTS in Honduras have strange habits of naming their children, and it’s got the authorities in this Caribbean nation in a flap. Bujia (Spark Plug), Defecacion Flores (Defecation Flowers), or Llanta de Milagro (Miracle Tyre) are some favoured names. So authorities are thinking of passing a law to end
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      Lock icon Storm over Manhunt
      471 2  -  Contestants accuse organisers of impropriety and ill-treatment By Serene Goh sereneg@sph.com.sg MR AUSTRALIA may have already been crowned the winner of Manhunt International 2000, but the show has just begun. First, Eyeball received anonymous poison-pen letters accusing organiser Alex Liu of sexual impropriety with the contestants. Then
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      Lock icon There was no impropriety, say contest's organisers
      572 2 THE accusations ran rife. But everyone had his/her own versions of the truth. We contacted Metromedia Productions for its statement. The event organisers’ general manager Tracy Lee claimed managing director of exclusive resources marketing and founder of Manhunt International, Alex Liu was “overseas”,
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      131 3 Irene Lim of Plexus Consulting, a business management and HR consultancy, points out that while family leave is great from the employees’ perspective, it may not be practical for all employers. Smaller companies, especially, may find it difficult to get someone to take over the duties of
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        Lock icon Giving the family a break
        617 3  -  More firms should follow IBM’s lead By G Sivakkumaran gsiva@sph.com.sg COMPANIES which are aspiring to be family-friendly should take a leaf from IBM. Or should we say Family Leave? Over the last 10 years, IBM employees have been able to take five days of paid
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      Lock icon Beat the crush, don’t take your vows at ROM
      717 4  -  Couples can choose who, when and where to solemnise their marriages By Wong Sher Maine sher@sph.com.sg THINKING of getting married? Be smart about it and join the 1,565 folk who did it outside the Registry of Marriages (ROM) this year. After
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      Lock icon MPs prefer the human touch
      822 6  -  Meeting the people online possible, but shouldn’t replace face-to-face sessions By Sue-Ann Chia and Desmond Wong sueann@sph.com.sg eyenews@sph.com.sg SENIOR Minister Lee Kuan Yew just did it. Member of Parliament Associate Professor Toh See Kiat did it too. And now, some other MPs are open to
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    • Local LOG
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        209 8 AP SENIOR Minister Lee Kuan Yew said that Singapore had sought to buy up to 100 air-to-air missiles from the United States to bolster its limited manpower and “to welcome whoever intends us harm”. Speaking to reporters while on a four-day visit to Paris,
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        121 8 THERE is to be a more systematic approach to developing the design industry here. A study by the Trade Development Board is currently under way to obtain both qualitative and quantitative measures of how the industry is faring in Singapore. This was brought up by
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      Lock icon Design makes the difference
      218 8 D-Commerce, or blending design with technology that is the aim of the International Design Forum 2000, which brings together design users and providers from all over the world. It explores ways to use design to give products the cutting edge. It’s at the Singapore International Convention
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      Lock icon Pardon Tommy? No. No. No.
      455 10 Gus Dur rejects clemency appeal Wires JAKARTA It looks like multi-mil-lionaire ex-playboy and youngest son of former president Suharto, Hutomo “Tommy” Mandala Putra, will soon be behind bars. Without even looking at the clemency documents, Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid yesterday stepped off a plane from
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      288 10 TNI RESHUFFLE Wires JAKARTA He has already sacked his national police chief and deputy chief of the Indonesian Defence Force, but Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid isn’t done yet. Under international and domestic pressure to bring his wayward military under control, the Indonesian leader is expected
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      199 10 AFP JAKARTA Wanted. Poor Indonesians to stage protests. But just don’t forget to pay them. Some 500 demonstrators, who converged on Indonesia’s parliament to protest against a 12 per cent rise in fuel prices, turned on the rally organiser and trashed his car because they
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      Lock icon Gore vs Bush: Feels like a tie
      554 11 One was condescending, the other was ill-prepared Salon.com BOSTON The Americans love an argument. That’s great, even if most of them can’t argue to save their lives. So, on Tuesday, Governor George W Bush and Vice-President Al Gore had to argue it out
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      18 11 Here is what viewers thought after the debate I in a CNN-USA Today-Qallup poll Source: AP
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      Lock icon BUCHANAN ON THE SIDELINES
      169 11 Lat-wp BOSTON He wanted to be up there on the debate stage. Boy, did he. Instead, Reform Party presidential candidate Pat Buchanan (right) revealed yesterday that he’d watched what he called “The Great Republican Gamble” with his wife in their hotel room. Green Party candidate Ralph
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      278 11 Reuters LONDON In less than two days, a second British airport failed a security test. Government airport inspectors smuggled a gun and fake bomb past airport guards at Manchester Airport, the second such breach in two days, reported British tabloid The Sun. News of
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    • World WIDE
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        Lock icon Top militia leader arrested
        185 13 Wires JAKARTA Notorious East Timorese militia leader Eurico Guterres was arrested by the Indonesian police yesterday. He is accused of ordering his gang members to defy attempts to disarm them, and for involvement in the sacking of a United Nations office in West Timor last month
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        Lock icon Rebels told to surrender or die
        100 13 AFP JOLO Philippine military helicopters yesterday dropped hundreds of flyers over the town of Talipao warning guerrillas holding five hostages that they would be killed unless they surrendered. At least four helicopters criss-crossed the town on Jolo island, where the military believes an Abu
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        69 13 AP yesterday ordered video across the country to cease operations within two months because of fears that many youths have turned into video game addicts. “This should be considered ample notice for video arcades to close down,” Deputy Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
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        76 13 AP COVINA (California) A high school English teacher is out of a job after assigning his students the mock task of picking an assassination victim and planning the killing without getting caught. Students said Andrew Phillips told them to choose a victim from outside Covina High School in
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        Lock icon Billion-dollar Mafia caper busted
        118 13 Reuters ROME Italian police has cracked a Mafia-led organisation accused of planning to steal as much as two trillion lire (S$ 1.2 billion) through an online bank fraud. The group worked with corrupt employees of Banco di Sicilia to create a computer system resembling the bank’s
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        97 13 EmpText WASHINGTON High-tech companies could bring in almost 600,000 additional skilled foreign workers over the next three years and also hire thousands more foreign students from US graduate programs under a bill that sped through Congress. The Senate passed the bill on a 96-1 vote,
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      Lock icon Hit in the line of duty
      58 13 Reuters TV cameraman Mazen Daana falls, hit in the leg hy Israeli fire during heavy clashes in the West Bank city of Hebron on Tuesday while covering the fifth day of clashes between Israelis and Palestinians. About 50 people have been killed and more
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      Lock icon Baby cut from mother’s womb
      246 13 Woman murders expectant mum, commits suicide Wires CLEVELAND A 39-year-old woman in Cleveland is believed to have cut out a nearly full-term baby from its mother’s womb, buried the mother’s body and claimed the child as her own before killing herself when she came under
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      Lock icon BIZ SITE OF THE DAT: www.commerce asia.com
      206 15  -  Francis Kan THE quickest way to tell the world at large that you are up to Internet age is to sack your secretary. Why do you need one when you can a have a personal organiser or even a “virtual” secretary zip you
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      84 15 Straits Times Index (STI Top 3 Active VOLUME CENTS Golde'fi Agri 31,975,000 30.0 Citye 2khk$ 19,518,000 5.0 TTInt 12,597,000 46.5 Top 3 Gainers CENTS Chartered 965 25 2.7 Great East 595 25 4.4 DBS 1980 20 1.0 Total number of gainers: 101 Top 3 Losers CENTS PacCent 1620 -80
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      Lock icon Dotcoms dirty little secret
      712 15  -  The high-speed, big-moneyed world of the dotcommer ensconced in Silicon Valley is ready victim and smokescreen -for its growing drug culture until a high-flyer dies from the habit. LAT-WP LOS ANGELES Strange how the most sordid tales end in the poshest places. On July 16, a
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      130 15 PARTIES abound south -of Market Street, the heart of San Francisco’s hottest dotcom locale, and elsewhere throughout the city. On a recent Friday night, at the Merchant’s Exchange Club, on the 15th floor of a California Street skyscraper, vodka flowed freely, as women in alligator pants and men
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      Lock icon Transferring sins
      38 16 An Ultra-Orthodox Jew performs the traditional “kaparoO ceremony on Tuesday, in which she recites prayers to transfer her sins of the past year to the bird, which is then slaughtered and given to the needy. Reuters
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      Lock icon South Korea’s big bangs on broadband
      743 16 PC rooms and low rates draw the crowds SEOUL It’s the age of the big “bang” in South Korea the age of broadband access. And it’s all happening at PC “bangs” Korean for “rooms” all over Seoul. “Bangs” are now the hippest and most
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      589 17 Boy pre-selected for right blood match CHICAGO A US couple has made medical history by using genetic testing to select a test-tube baby to act as a life-saving donor for their terminally ill daughter. Jack and Lisa Nash conceived multiple embryos using in vitro fertilisation.
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      Lock icon Snakebots in space by 2005
      366 17 NASA’S WHEELED ROBOTIC ROVERS ON WAY OUT Reuters WASHINGTON It can coil like a cobra or switch like a sidewinder but it isn’t a snake. It’s a snakebot. A long, thin, segmented robot meant to help explore outer space, Nasa said on Tuesday. The robotic
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      Lock icon World music in your living room
      482 18  -  It’s perfect for those stifled by local radio content By Andrew Chin andrewc@sph.com.sg THE Panasonic RE-WSIO Satellite Receiver ($549) has the stylish look of a home hifi system, except it can’t play CDs. No big deal. With the amount of audio content available, you
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    • Tech FILES
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        Lock icon France unveils tiny combat plane
        122 18 FRENCH aeronautics group Dassault Aviation unveiled on Tuesday an experimental, unmanned combat aircraft built in a fast-track project and test-flown in July. “For a long time our idea has been to have a mixed fleet, with piloted and unpiloted aircraft,” said Bruno Revellin-Falcos, Dassault vice
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        Lock icon Oracle chief’s $1.74m guarantee
        131 18 AP IF THE Oracle’s new product, called Oracle 9i, doesn’t make your website run three times faster than similar Microsoft and IBM software, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison will pay you US$l million (551.74 million). He made the bold guarantee before thousands of people at Oracle’s annual
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        Lock icon British bosses can check staff e-mail
        82 18 AFP BRITISH bosses are allowed to intercept their employees’ e-mail and telephone calls, reported the Financial Times. As of Oct 24, companies can do routine checks of employees’ e-mail and telephone calls to ensure they are work-related, the paper claims. Patricia Hewitt, minister for
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        Lock icon Tuvalu puts foot down on sex calls
        123 18 AFP ONE of the world’s biggest suppliers of a bewilderingly exotic range of telephone sex is hanging up. Tuvalu, a Pacific atoll nation north of Fiji, has for the last eight years leased its telephone 688 area code to sex-line operators, despite its
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        86 18 AFP REGULARLY eating raw or cooked garlic can help cut the risk of cancer, said a study published yesterday in the American Journal Of Clinical Nutrition. “There seems to be a strong, consistent protective effect for people who are regular garlic consumers,” said Lenore Arab, a
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      Lock icon High time we set our own exams
      742 20 A SMALL step, but nevertheless a significant and very important step. That is how I would view the changes to the GCE A-level Examinations announced by the Ministry of Education. Taking over the framing of examination syllabuses from UCLES is important for at
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      Lock icon Students, take changes in stride
      445 22 ‘Hit by A-ciass bines’ (Sept 4) SECONDARY Four students this year will take new A-level exams in 2002, with a partly “Singaporeanised” syllabus that encourages more critical thinking. The Education Ministry will have more say in setting the syllabus and testing. The response: DIRECT ENTRY
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      312 22 ‘Refunds? Inconvenience? At a time like this?’ (Oct 3); ‘Flexibility needed’ (Oct 4) MORE Eyeball readers respond to parents who complained about the closure of pre-school centres due to hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD). SMALL PRICE TO PAY CHILDREN were dying like flies in the HFMD
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      23 2 (food morning! Showers with thunder in the late morning and early afternoon. High: 32C 1 Low: 24C Tides: 4.20AM/2.2M 3.03PM/2.5M Met Service: http://www.gov.sg/metsin
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      83 4 WANT to avoid the queues at the Registry of Marriages (ROM)? There are other people who can marry you: 192 grassroots leaders, 83 justices of peace and 529 others, including pastors and temple monks who are appointed by the Minister for Community Development and Sports to be licensed solemnisers. Fees
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      25 11 Log on to ball.asial.com.sg for an analysis of the debate. http:/ /ww.salon.com/ politics/feature/2000/10/4/ debate/indexl.html More of Salon’s editorial. http://www.cnn.com/200Q/ ALLPOLITICS/stories/10/03/ debate.video/index.html Watch the debate here.
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      86 12 -41 V 1 i Singapore’s premier women’s magazine is now online! m- lists bblltfc m b,, tfe “““~ss3§fsE t :i f BSE iSSS^S*Amr.K BRSZ£_ ■sa».» *w* xyxto&s#**, ie&imi herworld.com is your one-scop information hub for offering instant advice on how to do just about everything better prettier, smarter and sexier.
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      182 14 559.90/RM 19.90 r r I gggpwsßjra &s&***& 'J&Uakt in V I tit Mi Managing trie age difierence between your kid u ZfK) (K *%> SOA Hti nr or S' M Free for gm A Crabtree Evelyn Animal Zoo Soap Set* worth 5524.90 for every subscriber! Keisha Marie Cover Baby of
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      233 16 mwmMmmwm. f .2 Win a Free Trip (with Grandstand Seat) to the Malaysian FI Grand Prix this month! Misssed out on our recent Eyeball-Shell “Go Kart with Michael Schumacher” promotion? Fret not! Project Eyeball will be giving readers a chance to win an ALL-EXPENSES PAID TRIP* worth $2,500 (Grandstand Seat
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      63 17 A Scottish couple want the courts to let them use in vitro fertilisation to ensure their next child is a girl replacing a daughter they lost in a fire. What do you think of parents playing God in this manner? Do some ends like saving a child’s life justify the
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      68 20 What do you think of Singapore going its own way in both major exams? If you’re in Secondary 3 or 4, how do you feel about being among the guinea pigs? Surf over to our new web page dedicated to students and young Eyeballers, and tell us! Or give your
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  • EyeSport
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      Lock icon Owen pines for 'greener’ pastures
      514 23  -  He says it’s for his career. Humbug By Luke Pachymuthu luke@sph.com.sg IT LOOKS like Michael Owen has a touch of green fever not the envious kind but the sort that is the colour of Uncle Sam’s cash. Apparently, the only way he’s going to get
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      Lock icon THESE GUYS DIDN’T DO ALL THAT GREAT
      247 23 MICHAEL Owen should probably think about some famous British players who bombed out after moving overseas, before signing on the dotted line. GARY LINEKER HE’S an English hero. But this Leceister City and Everton striker was a wash out when he signed for
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    • Sport IN SHORT
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        66 24 AFP OAKLAND The nightmare continued on Tuesday for the New York Yankees when they lost 5-3 to the Oakland Athletics in Game One of the best-of-five American League Division Series. The two-time defending World Series champions came into the game on a 3-15 losing record, but in the
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        114 24 AP PASADENA (California) Danny Califf scored in the third minute of sudden-death overtime to lead the Los Angeles Galaxy past the Kansas City Wizards 2-1 in the semifinals of the Major League Soccer playoffs. More than 20,000 people at the Rose Bowl watched Los Angeles take a 4-1
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        Lock icon Olympians won’t go home
        67 24 AFP SYDNEY At least six overseas athletes are refusing to go home after the Olympic Games, which ended here at the weekend, reports said yesterday. The Georgian Olympic Committee (GOC) is reported to have said that weightlifters Valery Sarava and Mukhran Gogiya and wrestlers Guram Mchedlidze
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        95 25 AFP HONG KONG Spanish golf legend Seve Ballesteros, winner of 88 international titles, including five majors, will headline the US$3OO,OOO Star Alliance Open in November, organisers said yesterday. “I’m looking forward to my trip to Asia,” said Ballesteros. “The Clearwater Bay golf course is a demanding
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        Lock icon Knight calls it quits
        91 25 AFP SYDNEY Olympics minister Michael Knight announced yesterday he was quitting politics amid uproar after he vetoed a top award for the planner of Sydney’s internationally -acclaimed Games. His decision to resign from the New South Wales state parliament came two hours after he was attacked
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        Lock icon She lifts Colombia
        106 25  -  Xinhua BOGOTA Weightlifter Maria Isabel Urrutia, who won Colombia’s first gold medal in 64 years at the Sydney Games, was given the Cruz de Boyaca medal by President Andres Pastrana on Tuesday for her brilliance in the Games. Urrutia ended Colombia’s Olympic gold medal drought after winning
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      Lock icon I’ll run for Singapore anytime: Susanthika
      496 24  -  Beset by trouble in Sri Lanka, Olympic medallist may consider a move By Luke Pachymuthu luke@sph.com.sg SHE is a world-class athlete from Sri Lanka, but she is willing to be of service to Singapore. That’s Olympic 200 m bronzemedallist Susanthika Jayasinghe, who’s had enough
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      Lock icon FACTS AND FIGURES
      141 24 Name: Susanthika Jayasinghe Born: Dec 17,1975 Height: 168 cm Weight: 54 kg Birthplace: Algama, Sri Lanka Residence: Los Angeles Marital status: Married Dhammika Nandakumara in 1994. MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS Bronze -200 m 22.28 sec (Olympic Games, 2000) Silver -200 m 22.33 sec (World Championships, 1997) Gold -200 m
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      Lock icon Schumacher teases his rivals
      247 25  -  Ferrari ace’s mental strength remains undiminished By Adam Hashidy hashidy@sph.com.sg CLEVER words from a seasoned professional, but surely, did Michael Schumacher expect his rivals to be taken in? The Ferrari driver has admitted that he is feeling the strain as he attempts to bring back the
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      Lock icon THE TRACT RECORD
      317 25  -  Adam Hashidy Tear: 1996 Scene: Suzuka, Japan Plot: Not much was expected of Schumacher, this being his first year with Ferrari. But third on the overall chart wasn’t that bad for the German. But 1996 belonged to Damon Hill, who finally won the world drivers’ championship when
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    • REWIND
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        Lock icon Four gold medals, 10 years later
        691 26  -  Fu makes a great leap in confidence By Luke Pachymuthu luke@sph.com.sg MULTIPLE Olympic gold medallist, Fu Mingxia has come a long way since the 1990 Asian Games. Ten years ago this week, Fu stood on the rostrum during the prize-giving ceremony for the Asian
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        Lock icon FU’S DIVE FOR GOLD
        82 26 TEN years ago at the Asian Games, the then 12-year-old Chinese diver Fu Mingxia was in tears after botching what was an otherwise easy dive in the 10 m platform diving competition. She eventually had to settle for bronze. Last week in Sydney, Fu was crying
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    • Tee TIME
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        Lock icon Thais snap up Tiger tickets
        341 26  -  GOLF CLASSIC By John Crean pettime@sph.com.sg TIGER Woods has created another course record before even setting foot on the course in question. For what’s believed to the be the first time in South-east Asia, the extraordinary Mr Woods has sold out a golf tournament. More
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  • Unwind
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        Lock icon Dive bombings
        1186 27 Forget about queues of limos, MTV-inspired wardrobes and yuppies yakking on cell phones as KARL HO (karl@sph.com.sg) bypasses the night-lite joints to dive into the haunts where true creatures of the night reside. SURE, if you’re a young, white-collar workaholic in the corporate rat race, your idea of
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        463 29 She may have been known as the Spice who couldn’t sing, but JUKE WAN (junewan@sph.com.sg) reveals Victoria Beckham’s latest effort is storming the dance-floors of Britain ADIES and gentlemen, meet tclubworld’s newest unlikely couple. Vic n’ Dane are not a spin-off from fashion label Viktor
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          202 29 Paul Van Dyk, Pavilion Far East Square HE PLAYED to a sea of human lava at Berlin’s Love Parade this year. So emotionally invigorating is his trancey mix of euphoric synthesiser melodies and climatic crescendoes that his sets have made clubbers cry. Meet German DJ Paul
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          131 29 Sugar 13 Mohd Sultan Road NO MORE bumble bees, clothed chickens or staff members in medical garb. It’s time for another wardrobe change for Mohamed Sultan’s razzle-dazzle club. This time, however, Sugar is going back to basics. Instead of fancy gimmicks, it is boosting its acoustics and opting
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          81 29  -  Karl Ho 28 Boat Quay HARRY’S Bar has opened their new lounge bar on the second floor. Called Upstairs Harry’s, it used to be a restaurant that served Western cuisine for the Shenton Way crowd. Now, with a jazzy makeover that includes a black and white Louis Armstrong
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        756 31 Can you keep a secret? A period detective film was shot on the quiet in Tuas last year, using local talent and local crews. SANDITAN (sandi@sph.com.sg) sniffs out the scoop. OT HAPPENED on the sly over five weeks late last year. A US$2 million (S$3.4 million) feature film called
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        110 31 SHARP PENCIL THIS action-thriller starring Mark Richmond, Lim Yu Beng and Beatrice Chia will start shooting around Singapore on Oct 25. Written and directed by TV ad director Gallen Mei, the movie is about a minister’s son who runs with a wild, car-vandalising crowd and will feature a
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        50 31 *'There is a word here called kiasu and people here wont invest in films. Part of the reason why we decided to shoot the movie here is to demonstrate that you can make movies here, and that these films can make money John Lamond Sr filmmaker MONEY CAN BE MADE
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          108 32 THOUGHT too many heads were rolling around in Sleepy Hollow but still can’t get enough of that Tim Burton feeling? Log onto Shockwave.com, where Tim Burton now makes a six-episode animated serial called Stainboy. Not to be confused with atomfilms.com’s Angry Boy, Stainboy is primitive drawings come
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          72 32 SELF-MADE Hollywood hustlers Matt Damon and Ben Affleck are vying to make themselves Hollywood moguls. They’ve set up an online script contest (endorsed by Miramax) called Project Greenlight at www.projectgreenlight .com where they’ll produce films of their choice. Supposedly, this will free unknown scribes from negotiating the
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          36 32  -  Sandi Tan “It’s a rush like you wouldn’t believe! It’s like you become a star for three minutes!” -a woman telling Todd (Paul Giamatti) about the joys of karaoke, in Duets.
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        681 32 HIGH FIDELITY (PG) John Cusack, Iben Hjejle, Jack Black, Lisa Bonet JOHN Cusack may have been last seen in the mind-bending Being John Malkovich, but he’ll always be remembered best for being John Cusack. His persona (verbal, earnest eyes, weak smile) was crystallised in the 1989 teen movie
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        812 33 Reviews: Sandi Tan DUETS (PG) Huey Lewis, Paul Giamatti, Scott Speedman, Gwyneth Paltrow AMIDST the pink and blue neon of a honky-tonk bar stands a microphone and a TV screen with flashing words. Welcome to karaoke-land, USA. This movie interweaves the lives of six people all
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        115 33  -  Sandi Tan A CLEVER, 92-second montage by a mischievous scissorhand named Vince Oresman. Oresman basically went and looked hard at many of Michael Douglas’ movies, isolating scenes where Douglas says “I apologise” or “I’m sorry” (and there are a lot of them!). Culled from films like Fatal Attraction
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          69 33 HARRISON Ford has looked long and hard but has found his next project: K-19, a compelling action drama about a Soviet submarine crew’s desperate race to keep their “cargo” on board from causing a nuclear meltdown. Directed by Kathryn Bigelow (Strange Days), Ford’s US$2O million (Ss34 million) price
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          103 33 DEAN Cain hopes that his turn as a narcissistic, not-so-bright gay actor on the make in the new indie comedy The Broken Hearts Club will let you forget he was once Superman. At least for a few seconds. Cain’s character, one of a group of self-involved West Hollywood
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          102 33  -  Jeanmarie Tan APPARENTLY Jack Nicholson is as good as it gets for Lara Flynn Boyle. Though the wafer-thin actress reportedly ditched Nicholson last month in the hopes of securing a new man, she tells Talk magazine that Jack’s still her man. “He’s the chief, right? What else
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        607 34 The Americans have taken over a Swiss town. But it’s not an attack, writes CLARE MTTLLIS. just another day of filming for Band Of Brothers, a World War II TV series produced by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks. AP NTERLAKEN (Switzerland) Above the town hall,
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        387 34  -  By Sandi Tan sandi@sph.com.sg THE Pixelvision 2000 camera was probably the hottest-selling item in Manhattan’s Toys ‘R’ Us in the early *****. Manufactured by Fisher-Price for children, the US$45 (Ss7B) movie camera got snapped up by visual artists who loved its grainy look and low, low
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      38 29 Posh Spice has left pop behind for her new dance collaboration, upbeat garage tune Out Of Your Mind, made with True Steppers and former Another Level hunk Dane Bowers. Log onto http://www.click2music.com.sg to check out her new sound.
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      628 35 COMPUTERS, can’t live with ’em, can’t upgrade ’em I’m currently running the latest version of Girl Friend, and I’ve been having some problems lately. I’ve been running the same version of Drinkingßuddies 1.0 forever as my primary application, and all the Girl Friend releases I’ve tried have
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      531 35 Movies Sand Trap 2pm# TCS 5 A wealthy businessman gets pushed over a cliff by his best friend, Jack. But after Jack and the not-so grieving widow report the accident and the sheriff goes to find the body, it’s not there. The plot thickens as an elaborate revenge scheme is
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      294 36 resurrects the bra MILAN— Fashion guru and Gucci creative director Tom Ford has just underlined his naughty concept for the noughties. “The most important thing for a woman to have next season will be a very constructed bra you’re going to see major bras.” The Gucci woman for next
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        85 36 ANGELINA Jolie has anxieties, it seems; she used a bottom double for her latest film, Tomb Raider. The 25-year-old star was anxious that nude scenes in the film, about comput-er-generated action dream-girl Lara Croft, might reveal more than her fans had bargained for. Said one
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        91 36 BROOKE Shields, the young girl shipwrecked on a remote paradise isle in Blue Lagoon, is parting with her personal island hideaway. The beautiful actress has put the Emerald Island, where she’s lived for several years, up for sale at a whopping U *****,000 (551.34 million). Said to
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        81 36 Wires Director James Cameron is planning a stay on board the Russian space station, Mir. He has passed medical tests at the Russian Institute for Medical and Biological Problems.. Val Kilmer is very talented, insists actor Dong Hutchison, except: “Everybody hears about Val, and I have to
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