Project Eyeball, 12 October 2000

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    11 1 projecteyeball. eyeball.asial.com.sg Mita (p) 077/02/2000 Thursday, October 12, 2000 80 CENTS
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  • Article
    Lock icon Guess who’s a Peace Prize nominee?
    96 1 AFP YOU don’t have to be Nelson Mandela to be nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize, you could be Slobodan Milosevic. The names of the ousted Yugoslav leader and Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, head of the militant Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah, are on the list
    – AFP  -  96 words
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      123 1 Hot LINKS CPF: When will the other 4% be restored? Some analysts Eyeball spoke to expect complete restoration to take place no later than the end of next year. Others think next year will be a bad time for a :omplete restoration. We take a look at the issue. See
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      167 1 World Cup: Pav to watch on TV You read it right. If you want to watch the 2002 World Cup Finals on television, you’ll have to become an SCV subscriber. Singapore Cable Vision announced yesterday that it successfully outbid its competitors for the rights to screen all 64 matches of
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      39 1 your view today ‘Sure I’ll serve National Service,. But only alter Singaporean males start giving birth on a daily basis. And suffer the indignity of the Government telling them to hurry the production line.’ Joanne Lee See Page 18
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      180 2 ONE of Britain’s most famous TV presenters made a jaw-dropping appearance at the country’s annual telly awards show on Tuesday. Judy Finnigan, who hosts This Morning, stole the limelight when her black halter-neck dress fell open, revealing her bra to the live television audience. Her husband and co-presenter Richard
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      Lock icon Two die in crash
      37 2 Two people were killed and a third was critically injured when a Bombardier Challenger 604 crashed in Wichita, Kansas. Authorities were not sure if the aircraft was approaching or leaving the airport. AP
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      Lock icon CPF hike 'expected’
      712 2  -  Analysts bullish on prospects for full restoration soon By Francis Kan francisk@sph.com.sg THE restoration was definitely better than most had expected. But with the Government raising its full-year growth forecast a day earlier to “around 9 per cent”, it was not out of the blue. On the
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    • Ground ZERO
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        Lock icon Maths exam raises ruckus
        789 3  -  Many parents feel questions were too tough By Sue-Ann Chia AND Eri Akbar sueann@sph.com.sg eri@sph.com.sg THE Primary School Leaving Exam (PSLE), a yearly affair, usually passes without too much notice. But not this year. The Maths paper was too tough, complained 26 parents. They said the
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      Lock icon Health hazard
      127 4 Source: Ministry of the Environment Legionnaires’ disease is a respiratory ailment discovered after an outbreak that killed 34 people at a 1976 American Legion convention in Pennsylvania. Symptoms of the disease begin with flu-like conditions, including loss of appetite, fatigue, body aches and headaches. Chills and fever usually
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      Lock icon New rules to fight sick building syndrome
      774 4  -  Environment Ministry acts to check Legionnaire’s disease By Thao Hua thaoth@sph.com.sg THE Environment Ministry (ENV) is out for the kill. Its target: legionella bacteria, which have the potential to kill human beings. The Ministry is now drawing up rules to control the spread
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      Lock icon Mr Autopsy on screen
      495 5  -  Film about Prof Chao on cards By Tan Dawn Wei dawntan@sph.com.sg HE WAS famous for reconstructing events that led up to people’s death. Now they are reconstructing his life. In the form of a movie. Cine Art Pictures, the latest entrant in Singapore’s cinemascape, plans to
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      Lock icon OUT OF TV INTO FILM
      286 5 THE MAN who produced popular series for local television like Return Of The Condor Heroes and Crime And Passion, is leaving after more than 20 years in TV. Laurence Ma is turning to movie-making instead. He said, “I was saddened by the drop in the
      Dominic Ong  -  286 words
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      Lock icon Bloodless games? No shiok
      423 6 Contest leaves students uninspired IMAGINE you are a jaundiced Loch Ness monster whose purpose in life is to collect clams and inject colour in the ailing fauna around you. Imagine this is a winning computer game called Vegan: The Quest. Now imagine you are vaguely interested
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    • Local LOG
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        Lock icon Get a jab if going north
        99 6 IF YOU are planning a holiday to any of the countries in the northern hemisphere during the year-end break, then you should get a flu vaccine because it will be the flu season up there. But there is no need to rush. There are
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        Lock icon Rift Valley Fever risk
        121 6 ANOTHER travel warning: If you are packing for a trip to Saudi Arabia or Yemen, make sure that long-sleeved shirts and trousers form the bulk. And add mosquito repellent and bed-nets too. This is because there is an outbreak of the Rift Valley Fever (RVF) in
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        Lock icon New baby for rare monkey
        104 6 A FOURTH Proboscis monkey was born last Wednesday, upping the Singapore zoo’s count to eight four males and four females. Proboscis monkeys are extremely rare and there are only 7,000 left in the world. The Singapore Zoo is one of only two zoos in the
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        Lock icon Dolphin suffers miscarriage
        78 6 NAMTAM, one of the pregnant dolphins at Underwater World Singapore/Dolphin Lagoon, has suffered a miscarriage. She had a hormonal imbalance resulting in too little progesterone, which is needed to maintain a suitable womb environment. Namtam was unable to expel the foetus on her own, so drugs were
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        Lock icon New windows safer to clean
        99 6 SLIDING windows that turn 180 degrees will be fitted in new HDB precincts next year to make it simpler and safer to clean. The windows dubbed Windows One-Eighty are just one of the three new inventions for which HDB has filed patents. The others are
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        Lock icon 20 arrested in gambling raid
        142 6 TWENTY gamblers had crammed into a small room in Toa Payoh Lorong 1 at about 6.20 am yesterday morning. On the table in the three-room flat was more than $40,000 worth of gambling chips. But their fun came to an abrupt end when police smashed
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        Lock icon First time art gathering
        128 6 FOR the First time here, 28 second-generation homegrown artists will come together in Art Power 2000 to show their support for The Substation and the development of the experimental arts scene. SG Private Banking, who are the corporate sponsors, said such philanthropic investments were important as
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      Lock icon Israelis skip Jakarta visit
      250 8 MPs cancel trip after death threat AP JAKARTA A delegation of Israeli legislators has cancelled a visit to Indonesia the world’s largest Muslim country after Islamic activists threatened to kill them in revenge for ongoing bloodshed in the Middle East. The Israeli group was to have
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    • World WIDE
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        Lock icon MPs defy Gus Dur
        143 8 Reuter JAKARTA Political tensions in Indonesia heightened yesterday after a parliamentary team probing two scandals linked to President Abdurrahman Wahid said his refusal to be questioned was illegal. The President had said on Tuesday that the 50-member MPs team had no right to make him appear
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        Lock icon Tommy in new graft probe
        99 8 AP JAKARTA Prosecutors are investigating new corruption allegations involving ex-president Suharto’s youngest son, Tommy, as he tries to avoid a prison sentence for an earlier graft conviction. Attorney-general spokesman Yushar Yahya said yesterday they had confiscated three helicopters leased from the Indonesia’s Forestry Ministry to
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        Lock icon Union gets tough over tardiness
        101 8 Wires KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia’s normally docile trade union federation yesterday staged its first mass protest in more than a decade to demand quicker government action to settle disputes. About 500 members of the Malaysian Trades Union Congress (MTUC) gathered outside the human resources ministry. Two
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        Lock icon Kindergartens shut in Johor
        60 8 AP KUALA LUMPUR Health authorities in Johor Baru yesterday ordered all nursery schools and kindergartens shut for at least two weeks after a child died from hand, foot and mouth disease. As of Monday, 273 children in Johor had reported symptoms of the viral disease. Kindergartens
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        Lock icon US signs China trade Bill
        50 8 Wires WASHINGTON US President Bill Clinton has signed the China trade Bill. It is a hard-fought victory for the White House, that promises billions of dollars worth of sales to American corporations. The measure scraps the requirement for an annual review of China’s trade privileges.
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        Lock icon BA stops flights to Kuala Lumpur
        96 8 AP KUALA LUMPUR British Airways will suspend flights between London and Kuala Lumpur from next March because the route has become unprofitable. “The London Heathrow-Kuala Lumpur route has unfortunately been operating at a loss for some time,” said Ken Ryan, regional manager of Qantas
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        Lock icon Swan song
        37 8 CDs of He Is Finished, a compilation of music and sounds from the dramatic events that led to the ouster last week of former Yugoslav President s Slobodan Milosevic, selling in Belgrade's downtown area. AP
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      Lock icon Space shuttle grounded because of this pin
      486 10 THIRD LAUNCH BID ABORTED AP CAPE CANAVERAL A third attempt in less than a week to launch the space shuttle Discovery had to be scrubbed yesterday because of a 10-cm pin inadvertently left on a fuel line before lift-off. The metal pin was
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      Lock icon MBA students get a lesson from prisoners
      636 10 White-collar criminals teach Business Ethics 101 Salon LAS VEGAS They were among corporate America’s best and brightest -a principal at an aero-space-engineering consulting firm, a senior finance executive with a well-funded dotcom and a division sales manager of a major pharmaceutical supplier. In
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      Lock icon Taking the law into his own hands
      37 11 A rioting prisoner from Parana prison threatening a guard on Tuesday as he negotiates for his escape and that of 15 other prisoners at the jail near Piraquara, Brazil AFP
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      Lock icon Car that says no if you’ve had one too many
      377 11 MALAYSLA FIGHTS DRINK DRIVING PORT KLANG The whole world is against you getting drunk. Your wife will skin you alive if she could, your boss will fire you, and the police will put you behind bars if you’re disorderly. Now,
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      Lock icon Bush-Gore battle burning up cyberspace
      475 11 All-ont war as ‘e-buttals’ get ready to fly between camps LAT-WP WASHINGTON Today, as US presidential candidates A1 Gore and George W Bush spar on the television screen, their campaign teams will be battling in cyberspace. If it’s heated on the TV debates, it’s all-out
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      Lock icon Holding on to the peso
      46 13 A petrol station attendant handing over payment to a cashier yesterday in Manila. The local currency hit an all-time low of PhP4y to the US dollar, amidst plans to impeach President Joseph Estrada for allegedly taking bribes from gambling lords. AFP
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      Lock icon Bulls&Bears
      85 13 Straits Times Index (STI Top 3 Active VOLUME CENTS Sim Lian 23,652,000 24.5 Nat Elec 13,271,000 314.0 NOL 8,678,000 142.0 Top 3 Gainers CENTS SembCorp CirPlus 160 -4 31 3 2.6 10.7 ST Engg 242 3 Total number of gainers: 60 1.3 Top 3 Losers CENTS V- Creative 50
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      Lock icon BIZ SITE OF THE DAY: www.dpgroup.com.sg/siooo
      94 13  -  Francis Kan IF YOU have the patience to sift through reams of documents before you make your two-cent investment, this site is for you. The site ranks a thousand Singapore companies’ performance in 1999-2000. The financial directory ranking, an independent exercise, rates businesses according
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      Lock icon Case keeps eye on petrol prices
      389 13  -  Vague warning to oil companies By Nicholas Yong biz@eyeball.com.sg THE warning was blunt, but the penalty vague. If petrol companies do not lower their pump prices when crude prices come down, the Consumers Association of Singapore (Case) has promised that it “will react” but
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      Lock icon Singapore slips to second
      257 13 GLOBAL COMPETITIVENESS CREATIVITY and innovation or the lack thereof was the reason Singapore slipped to second spot in this year’s Global Competitiveness Report. Nothing in the republic’s fundamental soundness has changed, but more weight was placed this year on creativity, innovation and technology in the survey
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      Lock icon Not all it’s cracked up to be
      500 15  -  Cracks in G4 Cube aren’t defects, says Apple, but buyers are irked By Andrew Chin andrewc@sph.com.sg WHEN Apple’s designers made the G 4 Cube so simple and chic, they could not have guessed that its very starkness could spell trouble: mole-hill-sized problems become
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      Lock icon Virtual boxes and virtually no interest
      383 15 NEW ECONOMY FINNCE AFP THE U.S. BOSTON Metal safe deposit boxes have been a longtime staple of the banking industry, now electronic documents are taking the concept to a whole new level. Citing a new federal law that took effect on Oct 1 making
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    • Article
      Lock icon Keeping tabs on loafers is easy
      367 16  -  E-surveillance options abound By Steven Ng stevenng@sph.com.sg THE mice play when the cat is away. No longer if your boss is cy-ber-savvy. Don’t think that you can loaf as you please on the cyberhighway now that your boss is on holiday somewhere in Latin
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      Lock icon BIG BROTHER’S WATCHING
      125 16 Check out how some employers have made use of Web-enabled surveillance systems. 1b A chain of retail stores has installed cameras at its outlets, so that headquarters can check if counter staff are loafing, as well as to monitor customer traffic. 2b A Singaporean has installed a
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    • Tech FILES
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        Lock icon Best chips
        33 16 An IBM technician looking over a 300 mm wafer at a plant in East Fishkill, New York. IBM plans to build the world's most advanced chip-making facility on the site. AP
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      • Article
        Lock icon Americans divided over Napster issue
        126 16 AFP WASHINGTON Americans are divided over whether music downloaded from the Internet should be free. And that could make it difficult for a court case going to a jury, said a survey released this week. The poll of potential jurors, released by the National Law
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        Lock icon Firms face Net attacks by 2003
        87 16 AFP WASHINGTON The Net is a more threatening place than you think. Half of small and mid-sized companies that manage their own computer network security will suffer an Internet attack by 2003, a technology consulting group said on Tuesday. More than 60 per cent
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      • Article
        Lock icon Fix for harmful angioplasty reaction
        85 16 Reuters WASHINGTON A commonly used analgesic might help preserve the benefits of angioplasty, an operation done to clear out clogged arteries, researchers said on Tuesday. They found that sulindac may reduce the risk of a harmful side-effect of angioplasty called neointimal formation. It is marked
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        Lock icon 10 billion e-mails a day this year
        95 16 AFP WASHINGTON The world is catching onto e-mailing. The average daily volume of e-mail around the world is expected to reach 10 billion this year. And it will explode to 35 billion by 2005, a new study said Tuesday. The study by International
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      Lock icon Women DO have NS
      1026 18 ‘Let women serve NS’ (Oct 11) COLUMNIST Soh Wen Lin suggested that Singaporean women need to take on equal responsibilities commensurate with equal rights. Other Eyeball readers have said women should serve national service. More reactions: Sure I’ll serve National Service. But only after Singaporean males
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      Lock icon It's not the best of times for kids
      460 21 ‘The more the merrier’ (Oct 11) PARENTS here seem to think it necessary to throw in a numbing stream of enrichment classes for their kids. What Eyeball readers say to this: AT CHILDREN'S EXPENSE ONE of the reasons we do not want
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      Lock icon Why make abortion more accessible?
      444 21 ‘Abortion pill could raise a storm here’ (Oct 11) THE abortion pill recently okayed in the US is not yet available here. But it has already divided Singaporeans into camps. Some of Eyeball readers’ responses: f WRONG SIGNALS SENT WITH or without the pill, abortion
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      14 2 When and how much should the next restoration be? Tell us at httpV/eyebalL agia1,mip„ftg„
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
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      23 2 Qood morning! Showers with thunder in the morning over many areas. High: 31C I Low: 24C Tides: 10.46 AM/2.7M 10.46PM/2.9M Met Service: http://www.gov.sg/metsin
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      23 4 Is air quality bugging you at work? Let us know at httjn//www.eyebalL asial.com.sg Surf these sites for more information: http://www.epa.gov/iaq/ pubs/sbs.html http://www.nsc.org/ehc/ indoor/sbs.html
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      43 10 More on the details behind shuttle launches. http:// science.ksc.nasa. gov/shuttle/countdown/ Join in the excitement of a shuttle launch online. http://spaceflight. nasa.gov/index-m.html The one-stop site for all things related to the space programme. http://www.me.utexas. edu/~uer/challenger/ challtoc.html The reason Nasa is paranoid over shuttle launches.
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      28 11 More on drink driving and the law. http://www.ncdd.com/breath.html Science of breath-analysis tests. http://www.mha.gov.sg/faq.html Drink-driving laws in Singapore. http://www.panix.com/-ilefevre/ cars-suck/littera-scripta/Drunk.html An argument that drunk driving isn’t the real problem.
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  • EyeSport
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      Lock icon No more free World Cup on television
      764 22  -  SCV outbids Sportscity for premier soccer event By Luke Pachymuthu luke@sph.com.sg SORRY, World Cup fans, there are no free lunches on television anymore. If, you want to catch the soccer World Cup on TV in two years, be ready to pay for it.
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      Lock icon Sportscity will try to screen some matches
      391 23  -  Rules specify certain games have to be shown for free, says official By Zaki Amrullah zaki@sph.com.sg A SUGGESTION to football fans who have not yet subscribed to Singapore Cable Vision (SCV): Please go ahead and sign up. That’s the best way to make
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      Lock icon Football fans stunned, unhappy
      507 23  -  REACTION TO SCV'S COUP By Adam Hashidy hashidy@sph.com.sg IN ITS mission statement, the channel declared: “Sportscity, the only free-to-air channel, promises to bring you the best of sports from Singapore and all around the world.” It succeeded with Sydney 2000, excelled with its English Premier League
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    • Sport IN SHORT
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        Lock icon Wenger banned
        99 23 AP LONDON Blasting a record disciplinary action against Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger as “over the top”, the football club’s chairman says the Frenchman can be ruled out of the hunt for a new England coach. Wenger was suspended from the touchline for 12 matches and fined four weeks’
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        Lock icon Rugby star hurt
        81 23 AFP PARIS French international rugby union hooker Raphael Ibanez, who is set to have treatment for his injured left ankle, will be out of the sport for a month. Ibanez, who switched clubs from Perpignan to Castres in the summer, was injured on Sept 16 on the
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        Lock icon Asian Cup begins
        90 23 AFP BEIRUT The battle for the greatest prize in Asian football gets underway here today as the 12th Asian Cup finally kicks off after a chaotic scramble to prepare venues and a wave of last-minute security jitters. A talented Iranian team and a youthful Japan are among
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        Lock icon Chang upset
        80 25 Reuters TOKYO American Michael Chang and Germany’s David Prinosil were second-round upset victims at the Japan Open yesterday. Chang, the No 5 seed, lost to compatriot Cecil Mamit, 5-7,4-6. Prinosil, No 12 seed, was beaten 6-4,5-7,1-6 by South Korean Yoon Yong-il. Defending champion and German No 2 seed
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        Lock icon Aussie search
        55 25 AFP SYDNEY Australia is looking for friendly football internationals against England and Northern Ireland to boost its World Cup qualifying preparations. The Socceroos are playing Scotland at Glasgow’s Hampden Park on Nov 15. National coach Frank Farina, through Soccer Australia’s agents, is investigating a chance to play Northern
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        Lock icon Yankees fall
        74 25 AFP NEW YORK The Seattle Mariners had the perfect mix of young, old and tough pitching when they shut out the New York Yankees in New York on Tuesday in the first game of their best-of-seven American League Championship Series. Seattle won 2-0 behind 24- starting pitcher Freddy
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      Lock icon Imports irk Italian players
      595 25 Move to limit foreigners to five a team AFP MILAN- The old foreigner debate is raging in Italy, proving that it is not just in the English Premier League that the natives are getting restless. Italy’s leading players and coaches are joining forces in a bid
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    • Article
      Lock icon Deuce in prize money
      354 25 AUSTRALIAN OPEN TENNIS Wires MELBOURNE Women tennis players have long sought equality on the tennis courts in terms of prize money. To be honest, there was a time when they didn’t deserve it. During years of domination by Martina Navratilova and Steffi Graf, only a handful
      – Wires  -  354 words
    • REWIND
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        Lock icon Tyson vs Golota: In the ring with the rage machine
        680 26  -  By Zaki Amrullah zaki@sph.com.sg THIS Saturday night, Mike Tyson will get into the ring once more, hoping to pound the daylights out of Andrew Golota. No doubt, he’s the odds-on favourite to win, and I’d dare say that Golota wouldn’t
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    • Tee TIME
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        Lock icon American women golfers ‘bad losers’
        363 26  -  Solheim Cup showdown leaves sour taste in Europe By John Crean pettime@sph.com.sg WHEN it comes to team matchplay situations, American male golfers don’t have a monopoly on poor sportsmanship. Their women folk can be just as bad. It was the Ryder Cup revisited for a
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      36 22 If you’re not a cable subscriber, would you sign up for the World Cup? Or should Sportscity dig deep into its pockets to screen the world’s second-biggest sporting event? Join our discussion on httpV/eyebalL asial.com. sg
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  • Unwind
    • A DJ’S LIFE
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        24 27 Derrick May allegedly sleeps with a female punter after every set. Nicky Holloway has been known to parade naked on the dance floor.
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        54 27 Paul Van Dyk was flown in on SQ business class from New York, put up in a five-star hotel chauffeured around town, and paid a five-figure sum for his one-night gig in Pavilion last week. A superstar DJ usually rakes in $12,700 per night, while a top-notch maestro can
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        24 27 They have groupies all over the world, more air miles than a Singapore Qirl, and a fatter bank account than most dotcom mavericks.
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    • Music
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        Lock icon CULT OF THE DJ
        966 27 Sometimes it's great being a DJ superstar. German DJ Paul Van Dyk can probably attest to that. According to Tac Promotions frontman Ng Cher Yong, who helped bring Van Dyk into Singapore, the turn-tabling juggernaut was paid between $10,000 and $15,000 for a three-hour set at
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        Lock icon ‘Mainstream doesn’t say if a record is good or bad’
        543 28 ONE is the king of German DJing royalty and a lord of the global dance scene. The other is an up-and-coming baron of the twisted groove and gatekeeper of Manchester’s techno scape. Both are DJ titans in their own right
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    • Clubbing
      • Pick of the CLUBS
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          140 29 Nos 11, Mohamed Sultan Road FOR the Kevin and Perry Go Large movie party tomorrow, D) promoter Fluid Mix is bringing in Techno cowboy Tom Churchill for a one-night performance at Nox. Churchill earned his stripes performing in various underground parties in and around South Wales
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          86 29 Insomnia Cafe Blk 4, New Bugis Street, #Ol-04 INDIE promoter Kinemat Productions pumps up the volume on Saturday with another drum bass extravaganza at underground clubbing oasis Insomnia Cafe. New talents DJ Hasnor and DJ Wei get their feet wet, while drum bass mainstay Guerilla fires off another
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          63 29  -  Karl Ho 11, Purvis Street, #Ol-01 WANT to be cleansed by smooth, ethereal sounds and not assaulted by killer tech beats? Solace, the events promotion company that champions progressive house DJs, will let loose its jocks in the Wallpaperesque club on Saturday. They will play a plethora of jazz,
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        Lock icon Zouk residents in Ibiza
        429 29 KARL HO (karl@sph.com.sg) speaks to DJs Aldrin Quek and Adam Low about their recent gigs on the famed isle. NLIKE the UVengaboys who are still stuck in Eurotrash limbo, Zouk DJs Aldrin Quek and Adam Low have already gone to Ibiza, as the song goes. In
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        284 29 MUZIK, one of clubland’s most authoritative magazines, has recently released a list of the world’s top 50 DJs. Aldrin Quek, aka DJ Aldrin of Zouk, thinks that the magazine a publication from England is pro-British. According to him, around one-fifth of the DJs are foreigners. The rest
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        Lock icon Sugar, spice and all things nice
        243 30 Sugar, Mohamed Sultans queen of flaming camp and flamboyant kitsch, celebrated its second anniversary last Thursday with minimal decor and maximum glam. Amid a floating blanket of balloons and a free-flow of Long Island Iced Tea, thespians, models, muscled dandies and other gorgeous people
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    • Music
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        Lock icon The new make-believe
        765 31 The latest spate of movies about shifting identities could not be possible without cyberculture, thinks SANDITAN (sandi@sph.com.sg). ON THE Cell Jennifer Lopez slips into a rubbery bodysuit, injects some weird fluid into her veins and zips into a vivid dreamscape the mind of a psycho killer. When
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      • BEYOND REALITY
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          56 31 LAST year’s runaway hit, The Matrix stars Keanu Reeves, who plays Neo, a computer programmer by day and illegal hacker by night. With the help of mysterious woman Trinity and cyber-terrorist Morpheus, Neo discovers that life is a mere illusion created by a powerful machine in order to
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          Lock icon BEING JOHN MALKOVICH
          54 31 SPIKE Jonze’s quirky tale of identity sees John Cusack, playing down-on-his-luck puppeteer Craig Schwartz who is forced into office work as a filing clerk. While working, he discovers a portal into the mind of John Malkovich. With some colleagues, he starts selling tickets to the portal to
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          55 31 JENNIFER Lopez plays a psychotherapist who travels into the mind, with the help of experimental technology, of an unconscious psychotic killer, played by Vincent D’Onofrio, to find the whereabouts of a young girl he kidnapped, Time is ofthe essence as the young girl is locked in a death
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          59 31 JENNIFER Jason Leigh plays a game designer who is the target of an assassination attempt as she introduces her latest virtual reality game, eXistenZ. She escapes with Jude Law and enlists his help to test the game. The two then drift in and out of the game and the
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    • Movies
      • Cyber SNITCH
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          101 32 THE savvy marketeers at the Cartoon Network now have a site for fans. From Bugs Bunny to Yogi Bear, all the cartoon clan is gathered at www.cartoon network.com. There are games galore, interactive matter, info and clips from the rich archives. Frankly, it’s hard to say
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          Lock icon All the buzz on sequels
          140 32 IMAGINE a website totally devoted to movie sequels. That’s what www.sequelbuzz.com is all about. The primary function of this site is to keep impatient movie fans on the edge of their seats with rumours on upcoming installations of hit films. In addition to a daily
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        • Article
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          44 32 Girl In Noisy Club: So, what do you do? Patrick Bateman (Softly): I’m into murders and executions. Girl (Smiles): Mergers and acquisitions? Coool! American Psycho protagonist Patrick Bateman (Christian Bale) gets fresh with the chicks in his own special way.
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        876 32  - Young urban killer Reviews: Sandi Tan AMERICAN PSYCHO, R(A) Stars: Christian Bale, Chloe Sevigny, Jared Leto, Reese Witherspoon THE 1980 s aren’t over. Not just yet. Director Mary Harron brings back New York’s well-heeled zombies of the 1980 s in her flamboyant adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’ American Psycho. These
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        Lock icon Not all whiskey a go-go
        952 33  -  Tay Yek Keak COYOTE UGLY, PG Stars: Piper Perabo, Adam Garcia, Maria Bello, John Goodman COYOTE Ugly may think itself a PG-version of Showgirls sensitive young thing goes to the city in search of her dreams and winds up doing lewd dances in a rowdy
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      • Hollywood GOSSIP
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          92 34 David Duchovny, star of The X-Files, let it slip during a French Internet chat last week that he’d been approached by George Lucas to take part in the upcoming Star Wars: Episode 111. “I’m a fan of Star Wars,” he said, according to Empire Online, “but
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          100 34 HOLLYWOOD heartthrob Richard Gere revealed that if he could be any woman for a day, he would be the US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. He told Diane Sawyer in the television show Good Morning America: “I think she’s (Albright) in the middle of doing
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          103 34  -  Jeanmarie Tan XIU Xiu: The Sent Down Girl, the directorial debut of actress Joan Chen, won the best foreign-feature prize, and M Night Shyamalan’s The Sixth Sense nabbed honours as best Hollywood picture at the inaugural Ammy Awards, recognising the year’s brightest achievements by Asians and
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        Lock icon The one-off man
        754 34 SAUDI TAN (sandi@sph .com.sg) talks to director Mike Figgis about self-destruction, the challenges of DV and his desire to break free of the Hollywood studio system. ONTRARY to C popular opinion, Mike Figgis wasn’t born with the accolade-winning Leaving Las Vegas in 1995; he was actually born
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  • Tube Talk
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      Lock icon CHAT AND MOUSE
      372 35 CAN’T get enough rhetorical wisdom off the Net? Blowing out another’s candle will not make yours shine brighter. Always hold your head up, but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level. When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is
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  • Page 35 Miscellaneous
    • Miscellaneous
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      480 35 Movies From The Hip 7 am Star Movies 58 Criminal justice is about to be hit with a revolution. Law-school graduate Robin Weathers jumps in and simply shoots from the hip. His unorthodox tactics and anythinggoes approach to criminal defence make him an instant media celebrity. He’ll stop at nothing
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  • The Bach Page
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      266 36 HOISTED 30 feet above the floor in a dress so long and so wide that it trailed the entire stage, teen pop queen Britney Spears left the audience weak in the knees with her performance on Tuesday during her first UK tour. She made an eye-popping
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      181 36 Wires GERX Halliwell (right) has the best breasts in show business. We are not saying it, women are. The former Spice Girl breasted the tape in a field that included Jennifer Lopez (top centre), Elle MacPherson (top right) and Britney Spears. Doing the rating were 300
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    • Making HEADLINES
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        60 36 FRENCHMAN Charles de Castelbajac’s comic strip bimbos had big hair, bright red lips and dark eyes as they paraded around his Paris show yesterday with cartoon characters (above) in fluorescent yellows, greens and oranges, their belts forming letters of comic expletives: “Arghh!”, “Klunk” and “Boom!” The show
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        93 36 Wires RICKY Martin (above) lashed out at suggestions his act’s too sexual during a stopover in Hong Kong. “I’m tired of all that ‘Ooh’ stuff let’s live, let’s get rid of taboo, and let’s start breathing, please,” he said... Eric Monssambani, who recorded the slowest Olympic time
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