Project Eyeball, 2 January 2001

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  • 11 1 projecteyeball. eyeball.asial.com.sg Mita (p) 077/02/2000 Tuesday, January 2, 2001 80 CENTS
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 497 1 MAN WITHOUT DRINK Eugene Wee just doesn’t understand the attraction of alcohol. Beer tastes like ice-cold carbonated drain water while whisky resembles sweetened gasoline to him. See Page 26 THEY RING, SING, AND CAN EVEN DO WORD PROCESSING Your humble mobile phone is set to go the multi-tasking way this
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  • NEWS & VIEWS
    • Article, Illustration
      99 2 NIGERIAN police are investigating a bizarre claim that a boy has been turned into a yam by a witch doctor. Officers have even taken the vegetable -a staple of the African diet to jail. Three schoolboys in Maiduguri told their head teacher their friend had been transformed into a
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    • 253 2  -  He sounds warning hours after arrest of Falungong members By Sue-Ann Chia sueann@sph.com.sg THE message is loud and clear: Don’t mess around with religious harmony in Singapore. The warning was sounded by Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong at the Cross Century Charity Dinner
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    • Eyeball NEWS
      • 110 2 SINGAPOREANS are a mellow lot when it comes to partying. This year, police arrested just nine people in connection with incidents related to the New Year countdown, compared with the 34 arrested last year. Police said they arrested nine of the 80,000-odd revellers who had
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      • 96 2 OPENED by Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong, boasting a wine collection worth $5 million to $lO million and with rooms costing up to $3,800 per night, the Fullerton Hotel could well be Singapore’s swankiest. Officially opened on New Year’s Eve, the building has seven decades of history
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      • 218 2 THE quiet of the night was pierced by a baby’s cry at one minute past the midnight hour, as Singapore welcomed not one, but two, new sons the first of the New Year. Joey Han and Vigneshwaran Sadasivam were Singapore’s first babies delivered
        Desmond Wee  -  218 words
    • Article, Illustration
      331 3 VOLENPAM A fire raged through a cafe packed with teenagers celebrating the New Year, killing at least five people and injuring about 130. A possible cause of the fire was the Christmas decorations igniting. NEW YORK US President Bill Clinton decided to endorse a treaty that would create
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    • 331 3 Fireworks, stray gunshots and bomb blasts dampen New Year celebrations Reuters MANILA New Year festivities got out of hand yesterday with than 400 people injured by fireworks and stray gunshots in Manila, as Filipinos rang in 2001 hoping for an end to the violence a nd
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    • 176 3 Wires KINMEN (Taiwan) Strong winds and waves forced a Taiwanese tourist boat yesterday to cancel a trip to China that would have been the first legal direct voyage between the cross-strait rivals in more than five decades. The boat’s return immediately sparked unconfirmed
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    • Eyeball FOCUS
      • 833 4  -  But should punishment be mandatory? By G SIVAKKUMARAN and Sonny Phua gsiva@sph.com.sg sonnyp@sph.com.sg LAST month a poodle was found abandoned in a lift at an HDB Block in Geylang Bahru. He was badly infected. One of his wounds was so severe that the bone could be
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    • Singapore
      • 592 5  -  PUB project under way to make waste water drinkable By Sue Ann-Chia sueann@sph.com.sg Graphic: Paul Eric Roca REVOLTING though it may sound, waste water from factory pipelines and even toilet bowls can be made potable. Before you turn your nose up on the news, be informed that,
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      • 164 5 YOU’D think drinking water would be the same anywhere in Singapore. Not quite. If you live in the... EAST AND WEST Qualities: The water is not as pure. It has twice the conductivity level, which means there’s double the amount of dissolved solids in the
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      • 546 7 Group held service without permit FIFTEEN members of the Falungong spiritual movement were arrested at the Macßitchie Reservoir °n New Year’s Eve after a tense three-hour stand-off with the police. Those arrested include two Singaporeans and five Singapore permanent residents. According to a police statement,
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      • 390 7 Reuters FEIJING In a scene repeated at Tiananmen Square on every major holiday since mid-1999, hundreds °f uniformed and plain-clothed police searched the plaza in the heart °f the capital yesterday in a crackdown against protests by followers °f the banned Falungong spiritual
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    • Health
      • 397 6 Japanese researchers’ breakthrough may be good news for infertile men TOKYO Coming soon to a petri dish near you: Cloned human sperm. For the first time, a Japanese team of scientists has succeeded in growing sperm in a laboratory. The experiment spells good news for
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      • Stork OPTIONS
        • 410 6 DEAR Dr Chen: I am in my early 30s. I was diagnosed with endometriosis two years ago and went for surgery immediately. In the last two years I have tried intrauterine insemination (IUI) and two cycles of in-vitro fertilisation (IVF), but all were unsuccessful. What are
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    • The World
      • 404 8 Space visionary Arthur C Clarke predicts this century will be more amazing than the last AFP COLOMBO As 2001 finally dawned yesterday, sci-fi guru Arthur C Clarke said the next 100 years would be even more amazing than the last and predicted people would soon
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      • Article, Illustration
        123 8 It was the real turn of the millennium, as we kept being reminded. But this time around, there were no worries about the T2K bug or impending disaster. This is how the world celebrated. A puppet of Old Father Time moving through New York’s Times Square yesterday.
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      • 147 8 Reuters SYDNEY Australians partied yesterday, celebrating the New Year and the nation’s 100-year anniversary as a federation. Police estimate around half-a-million people lined the streets of Sydney yesterday afternoon to watch a 3 x /2-hour parade cele- brating the country’s history. Britain’s Queen Elizabeth wished Australia’s
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      • 558 9 Israel’s peace offer isn’t all he wants, but may be the best available NYT WASHINGTON DC Sometimes it is hard for an old guerrilla to hang up his boots. The Clinton administration’s recent Middle East proposal has confronted Yasser Arafat with one of the most painful choices
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      • 433 9 Wires JERUSALEM Violence flared up again over the New Year weekend. Israeli troops killed two Palestinian policemen during a northern West Bank gun battle, while Jewish settlers killed a Palestinian near Jerusalem. Palestinian security sources said the policemen, aged 30 and 37, had
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    • Technology
      • 736 10  -  MP3 players, PDAs in hybrid handsets By Steven Ng steveng@sph.com.sg AFTER you’ve made them as small and light as you can, WAP-ed them, given them larger screens and scroll buttons, what will be your next trick? That’s the problem facing mobile
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      • 526 11  -  Singapore to hold its first Diablo II tournament among others By Steven Ng stevenng@sph.com.sg Gaming must surely be the most e njoyable way of getting repetitive strain injuries. Lots of gamers here must be feeling the pain in their fingers or Grists right now.
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      • 352 11 AFP LONDON Attacks by e-mail viruses in Britain rose by up to 300 per cent over the past year, according to a report by a monitoring company released on sunday. The virus-monitoring company, Message Labs, said it had detected and stopped about 155,528 e-mail viruses
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      • 547 12 Two new first-person shooters demonstrate that the genre has grown up since the days of Wolfenstein, or even Tomb Raider. Instead of just walking down corridors, solving a few puzzles and blasting beasties away, today’s FPS games immerse you in plot and character. EUGENE
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      • 357 12 LET’S face it: Rambo would never have survived a real war. Combat isn’t just about having the best aim or the most awesome weapons. Having a decent brain helps, too. Project IGI (short for I’m Going In) is a first-person shooter for the thinking gamer.
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    • Business
      • 29 13 A vendor displaying prices in colones, the currency of El Salvador, and in US dollars. The greenback was made legal tender yesterday to check inflation. AP
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      • 627 13 Property stocks may also be good buys Reuters HERE’S a stock tip for the New Year: You are likely to be better off if you invest in bluechips and in property stocks. At least that’s what the analysts seem to think. OUB Asset Management’s chief
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      • 587 13 SMALL FIRMS NOT A GOOD BET Cox News ATLANTA Yes, the technology sector has been hammered. Yes, there are questions about earnings growth in the sector. But no, investors should not abandon technology stocks, according to investment professionals. “You don’t want to give up
        – Cox News; Bong Fortin  -  587 words
    • Mailbox
      • Expat EYE
        • 987 14  -  By Susan Carroll susanc@sph.com.sg True, there’s no place like Singapore if shopping is what you want to do. So long as you can put up with sales staff who are interested in everything hut in selling goods. ON MY first day in Singapore, somebody told me that
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      • 1122 15 ‘Red-hot chilli paper’ (Dec 29) WHEN we launched on Aug 12 last year, the readers we wanted to serve were the wired generation looking for a newspaper that was questioning, that took a stance, that made a difference. High expectations indeed. Did we meet them or
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    • 50 2 Departments: Enquiries 730-5800 eyenews@sph.com.sg Local News 730-5806 local@eyeball.com.sg Foreign News 730-5461 world@eyeball.com.sg Business News 730-5461 biz@eyeball.com.sg Eye Sport 730-5833 sports@eyeball.com.sg Unwind 730-5844 leisure@eyeball.com.sg Tech 730-5817 tech@eyeball.com.sg Online Edition 730-5811 Archives 730-5726 stlib@cyberway.com.sg Subscription hotline 749-2577 Fax 746-1925 Snail Mail Project Eyeball News Centre, Level 6 82, Genting Lane Singapore *****7
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    • 6 2 See page 8 New Year cheer
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    • 8 2 See page 7 Falungong members arrested at MacRitchie
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 24 2 (food morning! t t Showers with thunder in the afternoon over many areas. High: 32C 1 Low: 23C Tides: 4.07AM/2.5M 3.20PM/2.6M Met Service: http://www.gov.sg/metsin
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    • 26 4 For further information on how to take care of your pets, you can check out the SPCA’s website at http://www.n3wt.com/ spca/ or AVA’s website at http://www.ava.gov.sg
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    • 28 5 Would you feel comfortable drinking purified waste water, given the high standards of water treatment in Singapore? Yes ONo □Don’t care Tell us what you think at http^/eyehall-asial-com.sg
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
    • 33 11 Check out the following websites in the coming months: http://www.cplasia.com or http://www.atomicarena.com For info on Atomic Arena 2. http://www.bubbledream.com.sg For details of Singapore’s first DII competition. http://www.xbox.com/xbox/flash/home.asp Take a look at the Xbox.
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    • 9 11 »See page 12 Shoot thugs in style, Bond style
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  • Page 11 Miscellaneous
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    • 24 14 Tell us about your shopping experiences in Singapore. How does it, for instance, compare with shopping in other countries? Write to us at expat@eyebalLcom.sg
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  • EyeSport
    • Sport IN SHORT
      • 62 16 AP CHICAGO Elton Brand scored 31 points and had a season-high 16 rebounds on Sunday as the Chicago Bulls beat New Jersey 86-77. Ron Mercer scored 18 for the Bulls, who have won only the five times in 30 games. Brand scored 31 points and had a
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      • 64 16 AP HOUSTON The Houston Rockets’ centre Hakeem Olajuwon will rest for at least a couple of days because of a cyst on his right knee. He has had swelling in the knee since falling hard in a game against the Los Angeles Lakers on Dec 21. After the
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      • 69 16 Reuters ADELAIDE Romanian Andre Pavel made a swift start to the first ATP tournament of 2001 by beating American Justin Gimelstob 6-2 6-2 on the opening day of the Australian men’s hardcourt championship yesterday. It was his first serious match since injuring his back in
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      • 36 16 “I HAVE the single-minded focus to make this team great and make the city proud of it. Until I win a championship, I want to remain here.” Philadelphia 76ers owner Pat Croce
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      • Article, Illustration
        71 17 AFP PERTH-World No 4 Monica Seles wore down Karina Habsudova to give the United States a flying start in their clash with the Slovak Republic in the Hopman Cup tennis mixed teams event here yesterday. Improving as the Seles made short work of her Slovak opponent winning the
        – AFP; AFP  -  71 words
      • 81 17 Reuters PHILADELPHIA Donovan McNabb passed for two touchdowns and ran for another and Hugh Douglas turned around the game with a sack that caused a fumble as the Philadelphia Eagles took a 21-3 victory over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in their NFC wildcard game on Sunday. The
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      • 48 17 AFP MELBOURNE A former Olympic athlete who held the world record for the 1,500 metres was sworn in yesterday as Victoria state’s 27th governor. John Landy, 70, also ran six sub-four-minute miles and won a bronze medal for Australia at the Melbourne Olympics in 1956.
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      • 48 17 “I don’t feel snakebit at all,“ said Indianapolis Colts head coach Jim Mora after failing to chalk his playoff win in Saturday’s overtime loss to the Miami Dolphins. “There is no such thing as being snakebit. You either get it done or you don’t, and we didn’t.”
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      • 90 18 Reuters SYDNEY Shane Warne has been cleared to make his return to first-class cricket but Australian captain Steve Waugh said the leg spinner was not guaranteed a place in the team. Warne, who has not played a serious match since he broke his ring finger in
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      • 100 18 Reuters SAO PAULO Kenya’s Paul Tergat won the Sao Silvestre road race for a record fifth time and the third in a row on Sunday despite nearly going the wrong way down the final straight. The five-times world cross-country champion left it until the last 500 metres
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      • 77 18 AP INVERCARGILL (New Zealand) French sailor Thierry Dubois has been forced out of the Sydney to Hobart race by electrical problems to his yacht. Dubois, 33, entered this New Zealand port on Sunday, local officials said yesterday. His yacht, the Solidaires, began encountering problems a week ago
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      • 77 19 LONDON Tottenham manager George Graham isn’t planning on leaving White Hart Lane soon, said a Soccernet report. White Hart Lane’s new owners ENIC were said to be negotiating a deal to buy out the remainder of Graham’s contract at the club. The London club’s new owners have
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      • 59 19 LONDON Arsene Wenger is reported to have offered new contracts to David Seaman and Tony Adams. Soccernet reported that Wenger has also been in contract negotiations with Dennis Bergkamp, Thierry Henry and Patrick Viera. Wenger who has been linked with a move to Lazio, had said that he
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      • 124 19 LONDON Sol Campbell, Tottenham Hotspur skipper, has pledged his allegiance to White Hart Lane, Soccernet said yesterday. “I am not going anywhere. I want to play for Tottenham,” he was quoted as saying. “I’ve been here for so long. I don’t want to leave for any reason.
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    • 764 16 Beat Pistons 110-96 after six losses AP WASHINGTON Rod Strickland didn’t play again on Sunday night, and the Washington Wizards didn’t need him. Chris Whitney, getting his third consecutive start while the frustrated Strickland sat in street clothes, led a 12-0 third-quarter run as the
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    • 820 17 Baltimore defence holds Broncos to lowest score in eight years Lat-Wp BALTIMORE After 29 years, Baltimore again has a home playoff victory to celebrate. On a blustery day, the Ravens bulled their way to an AFC firstround victory with a strong running game and stout defence,
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    • Premier POINT
      • 473 18  -  He angers boss, but wins fans By Chris Lakey eyesport@eyeball.com.sg LONDON Arctic conditions may have taken a grip on the Premiership football programme this weekend, but there was a thaw, of sorts, at Villa Park in the one-way war of words between manager John Gregory and chairman
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    • 357 18  -  MAKING IT THROUGH 2001 By Christine Brennan USA Today WITH the dawn of the New Year, here’s a wish list and words of advice for some of the personalities, teams and others from the world of sport to help them get through 2001: To Ales
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    • Article, Illustration
      638 19 Tear 2000 was a blast for football. Manchester United retained the Premiership title, Real Madrid won the European Cup, and France, already World Cup champions, reaffirmed their dominance by taking the Euro 2000 trophy. Off the pitch, both players and officials reminded one and all of their
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  • Unwind
    • Article, Illustration
      27 20 fraSBiMm Pictures: Desmond Wee Styling; Make-up: Sophia Chid from I fouovi Cosmetics Hair/additional make-up: Tinoq Russell Goh (9816-2149) Models: Catherine Sally and Aydin from Mannequin
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    • Fashion
      • 472 21 HERE’S an idea that’ll go down well with environmentalists; even better if they’re budding 21st century marketing svengalis: Recycle your carpet by turning it into a piece of wearable art. That brilliant plan was part of DuPont Singapore’s strategy for marketing its Antron carpets. When DuPont wanted to
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      • Personal STYLE
        • 572 22 Laidback. That’s how Making Love’s star, Andrea De Cruz, likes to be shod. And as she tells CLARA CHOW (clarac@sph.com.sg), in achieving Cruz control, maximum ease works best. OU see her togged Yout in sombre suits on your telly every Tuesday night, as the sexy modern matchmaker,
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      • Wear & TEAR
        • 113 22 SHUDDERS and goosebumps are afoot, but only in Britain, thankfully. According to the Fashion UK website, fashion has latched on to the Page Three look, thanks to the current obsession with “soft porn and Essex Girl chic”. So, say hello once again to the likes of Sam
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        • 107 22 CLAUDIA Schiffer is set to star in a new comedy. The sex kitten plays a temptress in a hilarious romp called Life Without Dick, which will also star Sex In The City’s Sarah Jessica Parker and crooner-turned-actor Harry Connick Jr. An insider revealed that “it’s a really dark
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        • 74 22 DAGGERS as a fashion statement? Not so strange if you’re in Oman, where men at official functions wear elaborately crafted daggers tucked into an intricately designed belt. These, called the khanjar, have evolved from fearsome weapons into something like a fashion statement and status symbol, and remain in
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        • 69 22  -  June Wan BEING single may become the next status symbol now that fashion’s most famous couple, Esther Canadas and Mark Vanderloo, have split. Motives behind the break-up are unknown, but the couple no longer share an apartment. While the couple’s contract with DKNY has ended, Canadas can next
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      • 604 23 AFP Foreign cosmetics f irms are changing the face of China with image marketing and brand education. But, who's buying? RACHEL MORARJEE discovers a trendy new generation of women whose idea of beauty is changing fast. SHANGHAI Gao Li is the kind of Chinese woman foreign cosmetics firms
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      • Simply ESSENTIAL
        • 93 23 DON’T we all love that process of dawn breaking into day, as shadows slowly slip away and all that surrounds you is a soft glowy pink? No need to wake up especially for the event now, as long as you’ve got Lancome’s latest fragrance, Miracle, in
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        • 67 23 THE first concept timepiece store in Singapore, Yafiro at The Fullerton, is a boutique within a boutique hotel. The discerning time-keeper can bask in the presence of three exclusive speciality watch collections. These include limited edition pieces from such lines as Michel Parmigiani’s Parmigiani Fleurier, Roger
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        • 106 23 IN A partnership that can only see the continued ringing of tills, Sharon Stone designed a line of Louis Vuitton vanity cases to benefit the American Foundation For Aids Research (amfAR). The movie set-style cases were unveiled at Cinema Against Aids Venice at the 57th International
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        • 55 23 ORIGINALLY, sirens were mythical women who lured sailors to destruction. In Spring 2001, sirens screaming seductiveness are Prescriptives’ women. The Siren collection comes in cool and warm divisions, with tantalising names like Racy Mystick Cheek Colour (545), Innuendo Lavish Lipstick ($3O), and Marabou Eyelights ($2B). Available at
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        • 56 23  -  June Wan AND if you’re still unsure about the 2001 look, take Natalie Bloom’s advice. According to the creator of Bloom Cosmetics, this year’s colours to be in are purple, pink, turquoise blues and greens. A more refined version of the shimmer effect will come
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    • Gender
      • 647 25 Sleek and sweaty, horses seem to have gained a fan base among women here. Theirs is a charm that is hard to resist, as Eyeball readers who attended the Singapore Turf Club’s Ladies’ Night discovered. SERENE GOH (sereneg@sph.com.sg) reports. ENSUAL is the word Sto describe horses.
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      • 366 25 Reuters MADRID When Teresa Moreno Maya walked away from jail for killing her violent partner at whose hands she suffered years of abuse, it was hailed as a milestone in the fight for equality. Violence against women is a dominant issue in Spain, which
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      • Gender BENDERS
        • 97 26 SOME homosexuals in Norway in the early part of the last century had a hard time. According to Norwegian historian Per Haave, Norway castrated 414 people between 1934 and 1969, apparently as part of a crackdown on homosexuals. The exercise was broadened to include the forced castration of
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        • 103 26 MEN who always fight with your wives, you can look on the bright side now at least you’ll never have to call in sick. A Penn State and University of Nebraska study of 4,415 men found that those with moderate levels of aggression had stronger immune systems than
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        • 118 26  -  Karl Ho COUPLES who are trying for babies, take out those handcuffs and leather whips, and start using them. Japanese researchers have found that the raunchier the sex, the better the sperm count. The semen of 19 men who masturbated with and without erotic videos were collected. The
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      • Venus & MARS
        • Article, Illustration
          864 26 What's it like to have your virility challenged simply because you don't drink? EUGENE WEE (eugenew@sph.com.sg) reveals the dark side to teetotalism. Be sober. Be very sober. HBHHHHj HE last time I ll I I checked, I was a I man. And I don’t I touch alcohol. Nope,
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  • Tube Talk
    • 179 27 Kissing habits of the stars PISCES: Your kisses are starry-eyed, amorous and long-lasting. ARIES: Your kisses are quick and passionate fits of lustful pleasure that are there and then gone. TAURUS: Your kisses linger; they are deliberate, heartfelt, and they can go on and on and on.
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  • Page 27 Miscellaneous
    • 671 27 Movies Hr -v, m The Phua Chu Kang crew pull together some outtakes and other funny bloopers in this special Pals 10 am Hallmark 36 Fishing. That’s all that a pair of old friends wish to do for the rest of their days. That is, until Jack and Art Don
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  • The Back Page
    • 150 28 HOLLYWOOD couple Kim Basinger and Alec Baldwin are going to split up after seven years of marriage. Friends of the couple say that the Oscar-winning actress has moved out “every last stick” of furniture from their farmhouse in the Hamptons on the outskirts of
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    • 193 28 OOPS! She did it again and this time her boyfriend isn’t going to accept it. *N Sync member Justin Timberlake (above right) wants girlfriend Britney Spears, who’s attracting flak for flaunting her curves, to cover up in public. The hunky boy-bander said he
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    • 78 28 Wires ACTOR Patrick Stewart (left) has been given an Order of the British Empire for his ongoing contribution to the arts. Stewart has a 27-year run with the Royal Shakespeare Company, but is best known as Captain Jean Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation. ROBERT DOWNEY
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