Project Eyeball, 5 January 2001

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    11 1 projecteyeball. eyeball.asial.com.sg Mita (p) 077/02/2000 Friday, January 5, 2001 80 CENTS
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      511 1 VETS, RAPPERS EARN GRAMMY NODS Eminem (left) and Dr Dre rubbed shoulders with Paul Simon, U 2 and Steely Dan as the American music industry honoured both the daring new and the established with Grammy nominations. Plus, we review The Cult, Fleetwood Mac, Oasis, The Doves, Indigo Girls and Rickie
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  • NEWS & VIEWS
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      Lock icon QUICKIE
      93 2 FORGET high-tech tracking devices. Dissidents, along with their cars and cash, in the former East Germany were made radioactive so that they could be easily tracked by the secret police. According to the New Scientist magazine, the poor guys were either sprayed with a radioactive solution or radioactive silver
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      Lock icon Goodbye Kitty?
      399 2  -  Launch turns into a whimper as few people queue up overnight for soft toy By FOO LYN LEE lynlee@sph.com.sg HAVE Singaporeans finally sobered up to the fact that Hello Kitty does not even have a mouth? The soft toy, which caused an uproar all over the island last
      Yen Meng Jiin  -  399 words
    • Eyeball HEWS
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        Lock icon Autopsy shows boy died of HFMD
        331 2 THE autopsy report of the boy who died on Wednesday morning of suspected hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) did indeed carry enterovirus 71, one of the viruses associated with the disease. Meanwhile, the HFMD Task Force has alerted Johor Bahru public health officials
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        Lock icon SQ006 drew surfers to news websites
        116 2 SIXTY per cent more local Internet surfers clicked on news and information websites in November as compared to October last year. They were hungry for updates on SQOO6, the Singapore Airlines plane that crashed in Taiwan. The plane crashed on Oct 31 during take-off
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        Lock icon Geylang’s goalie found guilty
        96 2 GEYLANG UNITED’S S-League goalkeeper Lutz Pfannenstiel has been found guilty of match-fixing yesterday, just like roommate and fellow player, Mirko Jurilj. Pfannenstiel faces up to five years in jail for agreeing to rig the results of three matches. Sentencing was postponed until Saturday to allow the
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      332 3 LISBON An armed man broke into the RTP television headquarters and threatened to kill himself in protest over a decadeold report that he said had hurt him financially. In a live interview, businessman Manuel Subtil said he was carrying guns and a bomb and would commit suicide unless
      Bong Fortin  -  332 words
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      Lock icon Manila bombings phoned in
      257 3 Cellphones could have set off blasts Wires MANILA Mobile phones may have been used to trigger the Dec 30 bombings in Manila that killed 22 people and wounded more than 120 others. Recovered from at least two of the bombing sites were parts of mobile phones
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      Lock icon Czechs call for TV boss to quit
      305 3 Wires PRAGUE Defying freezing weather, some 100,000 people turned up at downtown Wenceslas Square yesterday to support striking TV journalists demanding that management and Czech TV boss Jiri Hodac quit, amid signs of a political crisis and calls for early elections. The gathering
      – Wires; AP  -  305 words
    • Eyeball FOCUS
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        1148 4  -  Visually-impaired Web users urge Government and companies to make websites easier to navigate BY TON BEE PING beeping@sph.com.sg TECHNOLOGY may have given the power of sight to the blind in cyberspace, making it possible for them to surf the Web through text-to-speech software. But in cyberSingapore,
        Mik Zarzuela; Alphonso Chan  -  1,148 words
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      Lock icon Unfriendly websites add to diabled surfers’ woes
      268 5  -  Toh Bee Ping ALBERT TOH used to have someone read his monthly telecom bills to him. Today, he can check them himself at www.vpost.com.sg. Ng Choon Hwee once relied on someone to read the news to him, or had to make do with
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      Lock icon Web not wide enough for local porn
      669 5  -  BY RICHARD MORT rmort@sph.com.sg WEB-SAVVY Singaporeans here who are tempted to display naked flesh on websites and want to get away with it by using a foreign server better think twice. The message from local authorities is clear: You can and will be
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      Lock icon Opposition youth wing set up
      524 6  -  Young Democrats look to stand up to ‘climate of fear’ BY SUE-ANN CHIA sueann@sph.com.sg FOR the first time, there’s an opposition youth wing in town. Called the Young Democrats, the 12-member group set up late last year is the youth wing of the Singapore Democratic
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      Lock icon Book of NSP articles to be launched
      688 6  -  COLLECTION EDITED BY GOMEZ G SIVAKKUMARAN PUBLISH and perish. This is not the latest salvo in the local media war, but the title of the National Solidarity Party’s (NSP) first book, to be launched by the opposition party this evening at Speakers’ Corner
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    • The World
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        Lock icon Some farmed salmon found tainted
        466 7 Toxins linked to cancer and sterility in humans LONDON The next time you order that lipsmacking plate of salmon, it might be safer to check just where it came from. Farm-reared salmon is giving scientists sleepless nights after research in Britain and Canada showed that
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        Lock icon Thaksin set to win Thai poll
        586 9 But his term likely to be short Wires BANGKOK The Thais are likely to choose a prime minster with a short shelf-life in the general elections tomorrow. Telecoms magnate Thaksin Shinawatra is well ahead in most opinion polls and his Thai Rak Thai (Thais
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        Lock icon Bribe-busters have it tough
        281 9 CHICKENS, AMPHETAMINES AMONG COMMON ‘GUTS’ AFP BANGKOK International observers will have to be sharp for Thailand’s general elections tomorrow not only do they have to spot discreet bribes and missing ballots, they also need to look for fresh dental work, trendy perms and some whiz-bang shindigs.
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    • Technology
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        Lock icon Smart office ware for Macs
        791 10 The Microsoft Office series adapted for the Mac was a success because it brought cross-platform compatibility to PC documents. The latest version, Office 2001, carries on from where Office 9 8 left off, writes ALVIN PANG (alvinp@sph.com.sg). LET’S face it: An office software suite is
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      • Article
        Lock icon This scalpel detects cancerous tissue
        331 11 AFP PARIS Doctors are testing “smart scalpels” which are fitted with a tiny probe that can instantly detect whether cells are cancerous, even in the initial stages of a tumour, the British weekly New Scientist has reported. The fibre-optic laser probe, which was devised by
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        Lock icon Giving harmful bacteria a killer ‘tan’
        248 11 MAKING BALLAST WATER SAFE AP NEWPORT (Virginia) Two researchers say they have found a cheap, effective way to kill harmful microorganisms being spread by ships travelling around the world: Zap them with concentrated ultraviolet light. It involves using a lamp that emits UV rays
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      • Article
        Lock icon 2016 – the year to book your ticket to the stars
        452 11 2016 the year to book your ticket to the stars Japan’s heavyweight firms join forces for launch of space tourism AFP TOKYO Buckle up for the ride of your life: Space tourism is set to leap out of the pages of science fiction and take off in the coming years
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    • Business
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        Lock icon Market jolted awake
        571 13  -  US rate cut fuels rally but analysts caution against getting hopes too high BY FRANCIS KAN francisk@sph.com.sg IT WAS rally day in a market that seemed to have forgotten what a bull charge was. Singapore’s benchmark Straits Times Index (STI), which had long gone into Rip Van
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        Lock icon Log on at the cyber caffe-ine
        461 13 NET-SAVVY STARBUCKS NYT WITH ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY NICHOLAS YONG THE next time you are in the US, you can look forward to surfing the Web while sipping Frappucino. That’s because Starbucks Coffee Co and Microsoft Corp have said that they are joining hands to
        – NYT WITH ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY NICHOLAS YONG; Mik Zarzuela  -  461 words
    • Mailbox
      • Eyeball SAYS
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          Lock icon Here’s hop ing...
          2500 14 Shake off the hangover and gear up for zooi which, according to the Eyeball Oracle, promises 24-hour booze-holes, more local soccer blahs, gutsier citizens speaking up, the unmourned demise of local online shopping, and the Ultimate char kuay teow. Here’s what we hope to see, and what
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      30 2 Qood morning! Partly cloudy. Showers in the late morning and afternoon mainly over northern, western and southern Singapore. High: 31C I Low: 23C Tides: 6.41AM/2.5M 7.28PM/2.2M Met Service: http:/ www.gov.sg/metsin
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      40 7 British scientists are calling for research into toxins in salmon. Read on: http://www. world wildlife. org/toxics/ Details about PCBs and other toxic chemicals, as well as their potentially harmful qualities. http:// www.ems.org; What’s the difference between wild and farmed salmon?
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      199 7 NEC Monitors BEATS THE COMPETITION NEC Multi Sync LCD Ambix XtraView Series Superior display quality Wall/arm-mounting capability Lower power, reduced emissions OSM On-screen controls Ambix Technologies Series: Multi Sync LCD IS2SX/181 OX/LCD 2010 X Also available: 1525 V, 1525 M, 1510+ 1810 NEC Multi Sync Flat CRT Series Ultra Flat
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      49 8 Mh m sm 'v.v s:«s Yup r our Sports pages have that. Edited by Yap Koon Hong, who does not pull any. You get your sports news and views straight, with a wallop. In one of our five handy sections. s' My Straits Times Call 388 3838 for subscription
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      22 9 Get the latest on the Thai elections at http^/eyeball. asiaX.com.sg http://www.bangkok post.com There will be at least two more rounds of voting.
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      116 9 A Home-Grown E5O Engineering Group with active oversea presence wishes to appoint a highly capable professional for the post of: LOGISTIC AND PURCHASING MANAGER Reporting to the Executive Director, you are expected to lead the Logistic and Purchasing team in procurement and Logistic Management. To enable the company to have
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      219 12 Baby Bonus Get a chance to have a free birth announcement ad and win $5OO worth of prizes I Simply send us a non-returnable photograph of your baby (below I year old) and a birth announcement message of not more than 30 words. Selected entries will be published for free
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  • EyeSport
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        Lock icon Thailand beaten
        92 16 AP PERTH-South Africa will play Switzerland for a place in the final of the Hopman Cup team tennis event after defeating Thailand yesterday in a repeat of last year’s final. Paradorn Srichaphan claimed an upset 6-3,2-6, 7-5 victory over Wayne Ferreira to level the tie 1-1 after Amanda
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        Lock icon ‘Act of stupidity’
        65 16 BERLIN A doping test on Borussia Dortmund striker Ibrahim Tanko turned up traces of hashish or marijuana, the German Football Federation (DFB) said on Wednesday. Dortmund separately announced that a previously agreed move by the Ghanaian to SC Freiburg would nonetheless go ahead next season despite the
        – Reuters  -  65 words
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        28 16 “AS FAR as I’m concerned,I’d like to stay with Liverpool for the next 10 years.” Liverpool manager Gerard Houilier on his future at Anfield
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        Lock icon Dual job
        88 18 Reuters ASHBURN (Virginia) The Washington Redskins hired Marty Schottenheimer, who once said he could never work for the team’s o-wner, to take over the dual job of head coach and director of football operations. Schottenheimer’s four-year contract is worth US$lO million (5517.5 million), according to ESPN. A former
        – Reuters; AFP  -  88 words
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        Lock icon Oklahoma wins
        69 18 Reuters MIAMI Oklahoma completed its stunning revival as a college football power by beating Florida State 13-2 in the Orange Bowl on Wednesday to claim its first national title since 1985. Quentin Griffin scored on a 10-yard run as Oklahoma became the only undefeated team in the country.
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        Lock icon SPORTSTALK
        54 18 “HE JUST turned and fired it and there it was. It was a nothing play behind the net and, all of a sudden, wham, he turned and fired it.” Washington Capitals’ defenceman Ken Klee, on Pittsburgh Penguins’ Mario Lemieux, who led his team to a 3-2 win with a
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        126 19 Reuters SYDNEY West Indies fought back gamely in their bid to avoid a 5-0 whitewash after Australian captain Steve Waugh’s 103 had guided the home side to a first innings lead of 180 in the final test yesterday. At close on the third day, the West Indies was
        – Reuters; Reuters  -  126 words
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        Lock icon Smith joins rival
        63 19 LONDON Mark Smith, the chief designer of Jordan, has left the Formula One team to join Benetton two months before the start of the new season. Smith follows Jordan’s former technical director Mike Gascoyne, who joined Benetton in October. “Mark has been at Jordan for 10 years.
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        37 19 TOGETHER with Leeds’ Mark Viduka, Arsenal’s Thierry Henry is the top scorer in the English Premier League with 13 goals. The Frenchman has scored a total of 30 goals in'sl appearances for the club.
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      Lock icon Future in doubt for Fowler
      879 16 Brawl could signal last days at Anfield Wires LIVERPOOL It looks to be game over for Anfield favourite Robbie Fowler. On the same day Liverpool announced that manager Gerard Houllier has agreed to personal terms with Barcelona’s Jari Litmanen, Fowler hogged the headlines for all
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      Lock icon Lakers sink Jazz
      422 18 Bryant, O’Neal make short work of weary Utah Wires LOS ANGELES Civilisations have risen and fallen waiting for the Utah Jazz to get old, but it was a worn and weary band that wandered into this town and received little pity on Wednesday night. The Jazz was
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      Lock icon Ernie Els survives, Vijay Singh out
      430 18 WORLD MATCHPLAY CHAMPIONSHIIP AFP MELBOURNE Top seed Ernie Els came from three shots down to beat Japan’s Hidemichi Tanaka at the World Match Play Championships yesterday, but Vijay Singh was sent packing. Els had his work cut out as the plucky Tanaka, a solid
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      Lock icon POWER RANKINGS
      858 19 National Basketball Association E ye Sport toasts the Portland Trailßlazers as the hit of the week. The Blazers are starting to hit their stride and proclaim loudly they are in the run for a championship. In the East the j6ers are coming up roses, especially with Allen Iversons
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  • Unwind
    • Food
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        Lock icon the big steak out
        628 20 Another steakhouse, Outback, has opened here. Have Singaporeans become more carnivorous, or have chefs simply come up with better ways to dish up steaks? ANGELICA TAN (tanaw@sph.com.sg) has the juicy details. LEAVE the mad-cow fever fears to the European governments. As far as bovine passion is
        Desmond Wee; Pictures: Clarence Chan  -  628 words
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        Lock icon Expert eyeballing a fine piece
        489 21  -  ANGELICA TAN TAKE it from an expert. Bill Dieterich, executive chef at Just Steak at The Riverwalk, said the best part of the cow is the rib section, as this area is not too lean. It is also trimmed and well-marbled with fat, which gives
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        Lock icon SHOPPING CART
        193 22 EYEBALL scours the aisles and gives new supermarket products the taste-test: NESTLE NESQUIK STRAWBERRY HfTT.W $2.95 NOW we know why there are more and more obese kids today. Sweetened milk! At 230 calories per serving this too-sweet drink has a very strong artificial strawberry flavour. Milk may give
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        Lock icon Not authentic, but good tucker
        388 22 This Outback-themed restaurant doesn't serve any kangaroo or crocodile, but the food is fair dinkum nonetheless, says ANGELICA TAN (tanaw@sph.com.sg). Place: Outback Steakhouse Where: #Ol-99 Times Square at Millenia Walk. Opens: From 5.30 pm to 10.30 pm on Mondays to Thursdays, till 11 pm on
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      • Pick of the EATS
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          Lock icon Why don’t you have some tunch?
          88 22 TORN between tea and lunch? Settle for tunch at Concorde Hotel’s Melting Pot Cafe. The selection, which varies every week, includes sauteed shrimp with hoisin sauce, braised pork with egg and tau pok, chicken kapitan and y ong taufoo Spicier fare includes ayam korm
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          Lock icon Try a Japanese buffet dinner
          122 22 POPULAR Japanese cuisine makes a;comeback this month at New Park Hotel’s New Park Cafe. Tuck into sushi and sashimi at their Japanese buffet dinner. The chef counter serves up teppanyaki and tempura. The buffet tables offer the likes of yakisoba (fried Udon) and tori teriyaki
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        • Article
          Lock icon Get set for Swensen’s festive lunches
          72 22 GET festive set lunches at Swensen’s. From the Bundles of Luck promotion, choose from the Prosperity Fish (a fish fillet topped with plum sauce), Auspicious Duck (smoked duck with sweet horseradish sauce and mandarin oranges) and Lucky Chicken (grilled chicken with fruity sauce, prune
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          Lock icon Hawker’s pick
          92 22  -  ANGELICA TAN The Rod Prata House 246 M, Upper Thomson Road Opens: 7 am to 1 am IF YOU like your prata flaky and crispy, you won’t be disappointed with the ones here. The kosongs at 50 cents maybe smaller in diameter than the regular ones we’re used
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    • Music
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        Lock icon The write stuff
        1264 23 Take refuge from inane lyrics like Hit Me Baby One More Time and hide from banal boyband songs. Discover poetry and introspection in modern music, and the bands who actually marry creativity and craftsmanship in their songs. JEREMY AUYONCr (pedas@sph.com.sg) helps you out. AME this song: “Shoop,
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        Lock icon Rare gems from cult group
        1044 24 Rare gems f rom cult group POP |ROCK RARE CULT The Cult (Beggars Banquet) HERE’S one that goes out to all those Harley-ridin’, moonshine-lickin’ types who dig leather trousers and Native American chic. Rare Cult is a fascinating six-CD box set which spans the length of the seminal English rock
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        Lock icon OF THE WEEK
        329 24  -  RONALD RAJAN RUMOURS Fleetwood Mac (Warner Bros) DISMISS this record as baby-boomerish adult-oriented rock, but Rumours’ illustrious accomplishments speak for itself. British blues band Fleetwood Mac was on its way down by the mid-Seventies, having lost members to either a religious cult (guitarist Jeremy Spencer) or a
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        155 25  -  JUNE WAN JANE Barenaked Ladies from the album Maybe You Should Drive Time: 5 min 1 sec www.mp3.com IF CANADA ever needed a rebuttal to South Park’s reputation-denting Blame Canada campaign, the Barenaked Ladies would be it. A bit of the band’s witty and rambunctious style
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      • Music NOTES
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          Lock icon Janet gay?
          139 25 SINGER Janet Jackson is hopping mad after her husband Rene Elizondo accused her of being a secret lesbian. Elizondo is threatening to reveal all about Janet’s gay trysts unless she forks out U 5522.5 million (Ss3B million) in a divorce deal. She insists the former drug addict is
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          Lock icon Unsporty BBMak
          97 25 BRITISH boyband BBMak will back Sporty Spice, Melanie C, on stage next month but from the looks of it, they have shown very little support for the singer so far. BBMak singer Christian Burns, 24, says: “She’s not my type at all. “She has put on lots of
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          Lock icon Keeping it ‘zipped’
          123 25  -  HERA CHAUA JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE said he and girlfriend Britney Spears are happy because they share the same values to stay virginal until the big day. He says: “I want to marry a girl who shares the same value I do. I have a lot of friends who
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        Lock icon ALBUM OF THE YEAR
        36 26 HERE are this year’s nominees for the most coveted Grammy award: Beck Midnite Vultures Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP Radiohead Kid A Paul Simon You’re The One Steely Dan Two Against Nature
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        Lock icon Grammy goes green and gold
        662 26 Reuters After criticism for ignoring talent over sales, the Qrammy voters have decided to recognise both popular newcomers and veteran acts with nominations for the prized music awards. Groundbreaking rapper Dr Dre and his controversial protege Eminem shared the field with veteran acts like Paul
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        Lock icon Eminem takes the rap with four nominations
        389 26 GRAMMY organisers have stepped out on a limb by awarding white rapper Eminem four nominations. The 28-year-old Detroit rapper, whose real name is Marshall Bruce Mathers 111, has polarised fans and outraged moral crusaders over the past two years with songs appearing to
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      34 21 Forget A-l, ketchup and Worcestershire sauce. See what unconventional condiments Raffles Hotel has for its steaks httre//eveball.asial.com.gg http://www.juststeak. i-p.com Chef Bill Dieterich will be happy to answer the steak queries posted at this site.
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      46 23 “Who let the dogs out? Hoo! Hoo! Hoo!” “She bangs, she bangs, oh baby, when she moves, she moves” “I guess this time you’re really leaving. I heard your suitcase say goodbye.” For a taste of some of today’s most puerile lyrics, log on to http://eyeball.asial.com.sg
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  • Tube Talk
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      Lock icon CHAT AND MOUSE
      124 27 What those acronyms and names really mean TORI Don't Eject (non-removeable drive) ISDN: It Still Does Nothing APPLE: Arrogance Produces Profit-Losing Entity SCSI: System Can’t See It DOS: Defective Operating System BASIC: Bill’s Attempt to Seize Industry Control IBM: I Blame Microsoft DEC: Do Expect Cuts CD-ROM:
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      598 27 Movies The Secret Life Of Girls 1 pm Star Movies 58 A 15-vear-old growing up in the 1970 s looks at the world and her family and begins to question it. She discovers that her father is having an affair with one of his students, which shatters her image of
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      Lock icon Lopez pays price of fame
      218 28 IN THE upcoming romantic comedy The Wedding Planner, Jennifer Lopez (left) will pocket a cool S$15.6 million for her role as a bridal consultant. And that makes her the highest paid Hispanic woman in film history, according to January’s Allure magazine. But the 30-year-old Puerto
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      Lock icon Do blonds have more fun?
      50 28 ONLY Tiger Woods (above) and his hairdresser can tell for sure, but golf’s golden child showed up with blond hair to watch a college football bowl game in Miami. Woods’ manager said the fairway phenom dyed in jest, and not as a Dennis Rodman-like move.
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      Lock icon Aguilera’s no doll when it comes to Spears
      72 28 TEEN queen Christina Aguilera (right) threw a “major hissy fit” and threatened to pull out of a toy deal, when she heard that dolls in her image could be singing rival Britney Spears’ songs, reported London’s The Mirror. These dolls, which were
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      Lock icon Perry wants new friend on TV
      123 28 THEY might have been filming only for two weeks, but Matthew Perry wants Elizabeth Hurley to be a Friend. On his television series, that is. The 31-year-old actor was apparently so smitten by his co-star in the film Servicing Sarah, that he was begging
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    • Making HEADLINES
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        Lock icon Lee wants Kidman for Berlin Diaries
        61 28 CROUCHING Tiger, Hidden Dragon director Aug Lee is thinking of filming a World War II true story with Nicole Kidman in the lead. Lee is reportedly keen to adapt The Berlin Diaries —a biography of Russian aristocrat Marie Vassiltchikov, who was trapped with her
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        Lock icon Westlife-Atomic Kitten merger set
        46 28 ANOTHER marriage is in the works. This time, it’s Westlife’s Bryan McFadden and Atomic Kitten’s Kerry Katona The couple told close friends that they intend to walk down the aisle sometime in July, after Westlife completes its debut tour and third album.
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        Lock icon Randy Andy cavorts in Phuket
        83 28 Wires PRINCE ANDREW not only had the sun, sand and sea when he was onboard a yacht off the Thai island of Phuket where he had been the guest of Swedish millionaire Johan EUasch but also a bevy of topless women to top it off.
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