Project Eyeball, 13 October 2000

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    11 1 projecteyeball. eyeball.asial.com.sg Mita (p) 077/02/2000 Friday, October 13, 2000 80 CENTS
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      210 1 Hot LINKS Football fans feel kick of cable TV So the World Cup, the biggest event in the football world, is headed to cable television. What’s the big deal? Well, what’s next, many Eyeball readers ask? English Premier League matches? Sesame Street? See Page 3 Would you subscribe to SCV,
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      332 1 SI m Tt’s war!’ GAZA CITY Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat yesterday sent tremors through the entire world, when he declared that Israel’s latest attacks were effectively “a declaration of war” on his country. Israeli helicopters fired rockets almost levelling Arafat’s residential compound, several Palestinian police stations (left) and broadcasting centres
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      167 2 WHOEVER said that a book should not be judged by its cover did not get a good look into the Samford University’s 100-page directory. The cover of the directory of this university in Alabama features model Christy Turlington. It also features hundreds of small photos of nude women in
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      Lock icon Child-care centres can reopen on Monday, but parents...
      669 2  -  By Sue-Ann Chia sueann@sph.com.sg NOT all parents will be sending their children back to school when nurseries and kindergartens reopen on Monday. Said Asha Chandra Segaran, 37, an administrative assistant: “I don’t think I’ll be sending my daughter out for another week.
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      Lock icon MINISTRY GUIDELINES
      108 2  -  Desmond Wong and Sue-Ann Chia OVER the next two days, the Ministry of Community Development and Sports and the Ministry of Education will be instructing child-care centres and kindergartens to: Screen all children attending the centre to see if they are unwell. Isolate any child found to be
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        Lock icon No such thing as a free lunch
        929 3  -  Reality bites: World Cap is big money By Adam Hashidy hashidy@sph.com.sg NOW that we have to pay to watch World Cup matches, will English Premier League matches be very far behind? Say hey to cable TV. Understandably, soccer fans aren’t too thrilled by
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    • TEEN NUISANCES
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        537 4  -  By Wong Sher Maine sher@sph.com.sg MIKE (not his real name) is a teenager in lower secondary school. He’s going to be expelled after the year-end exams. Even being top of his class won’t save him. He has to go because he refused to remove a
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        380 4  -  By Joanna Lim joanna@sph.com.sg SCHOOLS don’t encourage students to bring expensive mobile phones to school in case they get lost or stolen. Or prove a nuisance by ringing in class. Three out of five schools Eyeball spoke with said they would confiscate pagers and cellphones that
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      742 6  -  Firms ‘open-minded’ about re-hiring By Joanna Lim joanna@sph.com.sg IF THE results of the latest Job Index survey are anything to go by, your ex-boss may not mind if you return to work for him. In fact, he could even be welcoming you back with
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      Lock icon Bounce back to the Old Economy
      380 6  -  By Nicholas Yong biz@sph.com.sg LIKE many others in the media industry, she left a mundane job as a marketing executive for the excitement of a dotcom, lured by the promise of a pioneering venture that would eventually yield big money. The dream lasted six
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      Lock icon ‘Don’t ignore local talent’
      356 7 Boon Heng asks banks to arm execs with new skills SINGAPORE banks shouldn’t shunt their local executives in favour of foreign imports, just because they want to compete regionally or globally. Instead, they should find ways to arm local executives with the skills and expertise to
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      166 7 MORE and more people are using the Internet to look for jobs, and also to find the right sort of employees. According to the Job Index survey, 37 per cent of the 500 companies surveyed said they noticed an increase in Net recruits.
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      431 8  -  Singapore’s first fully connected Internet flat unveiled By Winston Goh winston@sph.com.sg SINGAPORE’S first fully connected Internet home was unveiled yesterday somewhere in Bishan amidst a media circus. There were journalists from all over the region and even from Japan. While there were no official estimates of
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      Lock icon The high-tech home of the Tangs
      66 8 Some control and security system 42-inch Fujitsu Plasma TV $lB,OOO 3Advantech Web Panels $9,000 Creston wall and wireless controllers $4,000 Server $7,000 Grocery system 1 bar code scanner $B6O Internet access 2HP PCs $2,500 1 Creative Blaster PC $3,500 Internet access and wiring $lO,OOO
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      Lock icon Cheap geek’s guide to an Internet home
      113 8  -  Mik Zarzuela/ Luz Ramos Home control and security system Thomson 29-inch TV $699 Airboard Wireless Keyboard $99 Acer Aspire 6400-93CWD $3,488 (living-room Net PC, MP3s,Singtel Magix movies) ATI All-in-Wonder 128 graphics card with TV-out $339 (for surfing and TVwatching) Labtec LCS-2514 4.1 speaker
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      216 8 RIGHT smack in the eye'of the media storm in Bishan yesterday were Raymond and Ashley Tang, a couple starting off a life together. The Tangs gamely waded through all of the attention. But at times, they seemed overwhelmed by it all as they demonstrated features
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      412 9  -  Handover brings back memories from its 26-year history Eugene Wee eugenew@sph.com.sg AS THE sun set on Pulau Brani’s last day as a naval base, there were tales of the late model Bonny Hicks and kampung cinemas. Tales that were shared between old Navy buddies who came
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        77 9 A MAID plunged nine floors from Simsville condominium in Geylang, crashed through a glass awning and almost landed on another maid who was walking below. Both maids, who are Indonesians, survived the incident, which occurred yesterday morning. The maid who fell, Miss Rumani, 21, suffered serious
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        154 9 A SINGAPOREAN taxi driver, who tried to smuggle 5,000 Ecstasy tablets into Australia by strapping them to his body, was yesterday jailed for nine years by Queensland’s Supreme Court yesterday. Goh Chong Hoe, 40, pleaded guilty to charges of importing the drugs on Nov 11 last
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      403 11 Craft with explosives rams US destroyer in Yemen Reuters DUBAI In what may have been a terrorist attack against the US, an explosives-laden rubber raft rammed a US destroyer and exploded in the Yemeni port of Aden yesterday, killing at least four sailors
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    • World WIDE
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        268 11 Wires RAMALLAH A Palestinian mob yesterday killed two Israeli soldiers and dumped their bloodied bodies in the street after they were seized in this explosive West Bank town, witnesses said. The deaths dramatically heightened tensions and left little hope for a truce to end two weeks
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        122 11 Reuters CAPE CANAVERAL Space shuttle Discovery yesterday roared off the launch pad on an ambitious 11-day construction mission to the International Space Station the 100th US shuttle launch. Rain and dark clouds moved away from Cape Canaveral about an hour before launch, ending a week of
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        240 11 Wires NEW DELHI P V Narasimha Rao was the toast of the Indian capital last year when he released a fictional account of an idealistic politician caught in a web of intrigue. Some even thought the book, The Insider, was an autobiography. Now, he himself appears
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        75 11 Wires JAKARTA Former Indonesian President Suharto’s image took another knock yesterday when the wife of his grandson was sentenced to eight months in prison for illegal possession of drugs. The judge at the West Jakarta district court found Maya Firanti Noor guilty of possessing 0.5 gms of
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        63 11 Wires COLOMBO President Chandrika Kumaratunga’s governing party won a majority 107 seats in the 225-member Parliament, according to final results delared yesterday. But it was too soon for her seven-party coalition to claim victory, as the People’s Alliance did not win the necessary 113 seats to
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        53 11 Wires MANILA Deepening the political crisis brewing in the Philippines, Vice-president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo yesterday became the first cabinet minister to resign after allegations that President Joseph Estrada took pay-offs from gambling lords. She cited “serious accusations” against the president as her reason to resign the post of
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      33 13 Chinese actress Qong Li, now an ambassador for the Food and Agriculture Organisation, will take part in the World Food Day ceremony in Rome on Monday. AFP
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      Lock icon Knowing too much can be bad
      527 13 Information overload causes mental stress and burnout COMPUTERS and servers aren’t the only things that are cracking under a deluge of information human beings are cracking often too. So if you’re feeling depressed or a little stressed, you’re not alone. But unlike, terminals that
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      510 13  -  ARE YOU HOT OR NOT? By Janelle Brown janelle@salon.com Salon NEW YORK My editor made me do it. I swear, I did not want to put up my picture in the Am I Hot Or Not database, but he was cruelly unyielding. “Sometimes you
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      550 14  -  Current depressed sentiment may rock exporter’s boat By Francis Kan francisk@sph.com.sg AS IPOS go, this one is a different kettle of fish. You must have heard of dotcoms and even family businesses going public. But ever heard of a company selling fish issue shares? Well, now
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      Lock icon SCALING NEW HEIGHTS
      230 14  -  Francis Kan WHEN they had to close down the pig farms in the early 1980 s, everyone in his family thought it was the end of the road. But Kenny Yap, now executive chairman of Qian Hu, realised that it was just the dark before the dawn.
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      Lock icon BIZ SITE OF THE DAY: sg.jobstreet.com
      186 14  -  Francis Kan WHAT could make a recruitment site stand out among the clutter out there? How about featuring some of the biggest employers in town? This site has job openings with such corporate bigwigs as Singapore T elecommunications, Singapore Airlines and even the Ministry
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      83 14 Straits Times Index (STI Top 3 Active VOLUME CENTS Nat Elec 13,084,000 328 Chartered 11,457,000 785 PacCent 8,441,000 162 Top 3 Gainers CENTS V- SPH 2390 70 3.0 Venture 1470 70 5.0 OUB 805 45 5.9 Total number of gainers: 163 Top 3 Losers CENTS V- UOB 1230 -30
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      561 15 Computer, talk to me in a male voice Virtual voices reflect real-life gender bias AP WITHIN a year or so, peo_ple will be shopping by talking to their Web pages and the Web pages will be talking back. And they will speak in voices that reflect our own bias about
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      Lock icon War game for the thinker
      375 17  -  Accurate scenarios make this a winner By Steven Ng stevenng@sph.com.sg RISING Sun is a turn-based strategy game that allows you to re-cre-ate some of the bloodiest World War II battles that took place in this part of the world. Distributed here by New Era, this
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    • Tech FILES
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        Lock icon Sony’s new robot dog has an attitude
        240 17 Reuters TOKYO Sony let its new robot pet, complete with waggling ears and attitude, out of the kennel yesterday. The souped-up successor to its original Aibo dog, unveiled at a Tokyo news conference, has new features that enable it to experience “intimate interaction
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        105 17 NYT SAN FRANCISCO Microsoft released on Wednesday a new version of its popular Office suite for the Macintosh. This new version underscores how the Macintosh market has continued to diverge from the mainstream of the PC world. Although it is similar to the Windows
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        Lock icon Put an end to smelly shoes
        139 17 Reuters LONDON A new shoebox promises to stop shoes from smelling by suffocating germs with nitric oxide gas, New Scientist magazine said on Wednesday. “The idea is that you’d put the trainers in the box and activate it every few weeks,” said Noel Benjamin,
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        176 17 T-Rex fossils ‘a dime a dozen’ 17 LONDON An American scientist who found five Tyrannosaurus Rex skeletons this summer believes the dinosaur fossils are far more common than previously thought, New Scientist magazine said on Wednesday. “They are basically a dime a dozen,” said Jack Horner, curator of paleontology at
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        177 17 NYT HERE’S the latest accessory for the licensed pilot -a watch that doubles as a rescue beacon. The U 553,500 watch, the Breitling Emergency, looks like an ordinary wristwatch, but in addition to telling the time, it can broadcast a signal to search-and-rescue crews trying
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    • Eyeball SAYS
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        Lock icon Single take on parenthood
        620 18 ALL the news in the last two weeks must make some people glad that they’re single. Parents and children hogged the limelight, and for reasons that show how difficult being a parent must be. Trouble is, some parents are no great advertisement for parenthood either. With
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      387 18 ‘Maths exam raises ruckus’ (Oct 12) PARENTS complained this year’s Primary School Leaving Exam (PSLE) Maths paper was too tough. Some responses from Eyeball readers: REVIEW TEXTBOOKS I THINK the Ministry has to review the contents of school textbooks. My kid is in Primary 4.1 read through
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      545 20 NYT WINSTON-SALEM Like two students taking a make-up exam, Vice-President Al Gore and Governor George W Bush tried earnestly and politely on Wednesday night in their second debate to make a better impression on Americans than they did the first time. Their
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      Lock icon Birth control is the real issue
      445 20 BRITISH government spin-doctors have embarked on a controversial $152 million campaign to convince children that it’s cool to be a virgin. Here’s what Fayen Wong, 18, (teens@eyeball.com.sg) one of Eyeball’s young online columnists, thinks about it: “Virginitee is greet perfeccion, and continence eek with
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      15 2 Will you send your kids back to school? Tell us your views at eyeball. asial.com.sg
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      28 2 Qood morning! Showers in the late morning and early afternoon mainly over northern and eastern Singapore. High: 33C 1 Low: 25C Tides: 11.05AM/2.8M 11.20PM/3.0M Met Service: http://www.gov.sg/ metsin
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      43 3 You’re not a cable subscriber but an avid football fan. Would you subscribe to SCV just to watch the World Cup? Or should Sportscity have dug deeper into its pockets to screen football’s biggest sporting event? Join our ongoing discussion at -com .Kg
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      59 4 *l£ students feel so strongly and want to beep the tattoo* they can go to another school which can accommodate their personal beliefs,. 9 The senior administrator at the school which expelled a teen for not removing his tattoo. Who are the teens who get tattooed, and why do they
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      25 7 Would you go back to work for your former boss? Are you dotcommers thinking of heading back to a brick-and-mortar company? Tell us on aalaLeooug
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      12 9 Watch the last sunset ceremony at the Brani Naval Base at http^/eyebalLasial.com.sg
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      20 13 Read the ILO report on workplace stress. www.ilo.org/public/ english/bureau/inf/pr/ 2000/37.htm Find out if you are clinically depressed. www.discoveryhealth .com/DH/ihtlH/WSDS COOO/8271/9025.html
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  • EyeSport
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      Lock icon Time to wire up referees
      670 22  -  The human eye can’t always be right By Nazvi Careem nazvi@sph.com.sg LET’S clarify two rules of football that seemed to be overlooked during England’s 0-0 draw with Finland in their Helsinki World Cup qualifier. One, when a defender deliberately brings down an opponent who has
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    • Sport IN SHORT
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        Lock icon Group E stays open
        82 24 Reuters COLUMBUS The United States and Costa Rica drew 0-0 in their Group E North and Central American region World Cup qualifying encounter on Wednesday night. A victory for either country would have assured passage into the final round of qualification next year for the 2002
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        Lock icon Mets take the lead
        106 24 AFP ST LOUIS Mike Hampton hurled seven shutout innings while Jay Payton and Todd Zeile homered as the New York Mets defeated St Louis 6-2 here on Wednesday to open the National League Championship Series. The Mets took a 1-0 lead in the best-of-seven Major League
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        Lock icon Chance to win title
        57 24 AP SURFERS PARADISE- Gil de Ferran would love nothing more than to help organisers of Sunday’s Honda Indy celebrate the 10th Australian race in style by clinching the CART championship drivers’ title. If the French-born Brazilian can add four points to his 19-point lead over Canadian
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        Lock icon Kuerten prevails
        83 25 Reuters TOKYO-Top seed Gustavo Kuerten survived erratic play from the baseline to advance to the quarter-finals of the Japan Open yesterday. The Brazilian world No 3 Kuerten dropped the first set against Italian player Andrea Gaudenzi, ranked 103rd, but started to comeback in the fifth game of the
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        110 25 Reuters SYDNEY-The Australian Rugby Union (ARU), which this week failed to secure Australian-born New Zealand flanker Justin Collins, said yesterday players should not abuse their dual eligibility status. The ARU announced on Monday the signing of 26-year-old Collins for three years to play for Super 12 team New
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        Lock icon Games’ $5.7b tab
        94 25 AFP SYDNEY-The Sydney Olympic Games cost a total of As 6 billion (555.7 billion) to stage, with taxpayers paying more than one third of the bill, New South Wales Treasurer Michael Egan said yesterday. He said the NSW government will have spent A52.14 billion once the Paralympic
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      Lock icon Portugal doesn’t go Dutch
      823 24 Figo and mates stun Netherlands at home to top Group Two Wires OKAY. We’re really rooting for the Faroe Islands. Too bad its match against Yugoslavia was postponed, no thanks to political tensions in Belgrade. While the Faroe Islands may not have given us anything to
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      Lock icon Cronje goes from great to pariah
      795 25 Banned for life for taking bribes from bookies Wires JOHANNESBURG The rumour mill has linked disgraced former South African cricket captain Hansie Cronje with a chain of international fast food franchises and a major real estate agency. McMatch-fixer, possibly? Cruel, but Cronje can expect
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    • Time OUT
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        Lock icon Valentines no sweetheart
        668 26  -  But admit it, the NY Mets manager has great talent By Jon Sarceno CALL Bobby Valentine anything you wish. Every- one else has. Brat. Troublemaker. Master manipulator. “The most hated man in baseball.” The last description is a tagline Bobby V hung on himself, even as others
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    • Cheers & JEERS
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        295 26  -  NEW ROLE MODEL By Luke Pachymuthu luke@sph.com.sg CHEERS HE’S NO IVERSON IT HASN’T been a great week, but there’s room here for at least one hearty cheer. While Allen Iverson is out there trying to convince the world that he’s a real bad ass, Indiana Pacers Jalen
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  • Unwind
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        1139 27 Bjork’s done it. So has Aimee Mann and the Dust Brothers. More and more pop artists are looking for the silver lining by scoring soundtracks for the silver screen. RONALD RAJAN ronrajan @sph .com.sg) has the report. JORK. No longer just the Icelandic munchkin, she earned the best-actress
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        895 28 POP ROCK HOT Melanie B (Virgin) EVIDENTLY hoping to follow in the successful footsteps of fellow Spice gal and namesake Mel C, the British pop giants’ unofficial leader has launched her own solo venture. The record is dominated by the shuffle beats and drum ‘n’
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        Lock icon CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK
        217 28  -  Ronald Rajan BLACK SABBATH Black Sabbath (Vertigo) RECORDED way back in 1970 in three days for a mere £6OO (S$1500), this record introduced to the world the iconic figure of John Michael “Ozzy” Osbourne. Formerly known as blues band Earth, the Birmingham foursome must have
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        121 28 WAITING BY BLAKE CHEN FROM THE ALBUM SHADOW www.audioload.com Time: 4 min 32 sec A DEVOTED fan of Alfred Hitchcock and 18th-century poet William Blake, US-based Singapore musician Blake Chen has been compared to the likes of Bob Dylan and Lou Reed. Taken from his second
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        433 29  -  By Ronald Rajan ronrajan@sph.com.sg WHO needs to tune into VH1 to check out some divas “live” when we’ve got our own right here? That’s right, four of Singapore’s fabulous female talents will be on stage together for A Gift Of Songs a one-show only concert at
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          143 29 GOT what it takes to storm the stage? Here’s your chance. Yamaha, in association with Carlsberg, has announced that the third annual Band Alert competition series will kick off on Nov 3. Over US$2O,OOO (5535,000) in cash prizes are up for grabs. In addition to
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          82 29 ROBBIE Williams has been confirmed as a heartthrob, topping a list to become the world’s sexiest man. The “Rock DJ” charged ahead of Hollywood pin-ups Brad Pitt and George Clooney in British magazine New Woman’s poll of the world’s 100 sexiest men. Sara Cremer, the magazine’s
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          54 29 SPORTY Spice Mel C has a serious problem that her bandmates find most disturbing she can’t stop farting. Melanie admits she has a real problem with her wind and calls herself “farty-pants”. “I’m always farting. It doesn’t matter what I eat...l don’t try to hide them, I
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          85 29  -  Jeanmarie Tan RADIOHEAD singer Thom Yorke bitterly regrets being made to wear an eye patch to cure his lazy eye when he was a young boy. Thom says: “The most annoying bit was bumping into things all the time. It didn’t work. They had this theory in
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        309 31 ALL kinds of artistes have jumped on the soundtrack bandwagon past. Eyeball sifts through the pages of history and comes up with some significant examples. But did they help sell the movie? BILLY CORGAN: The heart and soul of now-defunct rock monsters Smashing Pumpkins, Corgan was responsible for
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          85 32 ALL it took was a suggestion from a business associate in the washroom, and Charming Garden was born. That was 20 years ago. Today, Tung Lok’s first and oldest restaurant still has a faithful following for its Hunan cuisine. Among the favourites are steamed minced pigeon
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          57 32 IF YOU just can’t get enough of salmon sashimi and sushi, then this Japanese buffet dinner is perfect for you. The popular buffet at New Park Centra is back. The spread is available from 6.30 pm to 10 pm every night until the end of this month.
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          50 32 BUTTER up your boss by taking him out to lunch or dinner on Oct 16. All the restaurants at Hotel Inter-Continental are having Boss’s Day promotions. Your boss may also win a Ericsson R 320 WAP phone if you can convince the hotel that he deserves one.
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          93 32  -  Angelica Tan Yong He Eating House 239/241 Geylangßoad Tel: *****82 Open: 24 hours IF YOU ever feel a need for dou hua and you tiao in the dead of night here’s a beacon of light. The dou hua is so smooth and soft it dissolves like mousse in
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        1044 32 When your boss disses your proposal or your boyfriend gives you the boot, who do you turn to Ben and Jerry's, Pringles or Campbell Soup? If some foods can lift you out of a funk, says ANGELICA TAN (tanaw@sph.com.sg), you're like millions of others, including celebrities. POR some,
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        356 34 Merge may just he the ideal cafe for couples as it caters to both foodies and techno-gadget lovers. ANGELICA TAN (tanaw@sph.com.sg) investigates the restaurant-and-mate phenomenon. UST as you wouldn’t J drive to the pharmacy to pick up bread, you would probably think a cafe is the
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        Lock icon Bathers beauty on Sunset
        431 34  -  Angelica Tan WHO would have expected to find a gem like Bather’s in the heartland of Ciementi Sunset Way, to be exact? Away from the madding crowd of Orchard and off the beaten track of Holland Village, the menu boasts portobello mushroom, foie gras and soft-shell
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      177 35 SOMETIMES it does take a rocket scientist... Scientists at Nasa built a gun specifically to launch dead chickens at the windshields of airliners, military jets and the space shuttle, all travelling at maximum velocity. The idea was to simulate the frequent incidents of collisions with airborne fowl
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      636 35 Movies Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 7.30 pm TCS 5 Becoming mutants after radiation exposure, these four turtles proceed to rid the city of crime and pizza. Aided by a television reporter, April, and their ninja master, Splinter the rat, the heroes in a halfshell take on the evil warlord, Shredder.
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      212 36 SEXY Latin beauty Jennifer Lopez (above) stormed out of her rapper lover Puff Daddy’s luxury pad after she caught him talking dirty on the telephone with a buxom stripper. “How could you do this? You’re scum! It’s over,” the 31-year-old star of The Cell
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      261 36 Contrasting styles have one thing in common: Sex GAULTIET, MCCARTNEY UNVEIL NEW LINES Wires SEX and the single girl that was Stella McCartney’s signature style on the Paris catwalk yesterday. The Beatle’s daughter, carving out her initials at fashion house Chloe, wowed with her swimsuits and
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