Project Eyeball, 13 April 2001

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    11 1 projecteyeball. eyeball.asial.com.sg Mita (p) 105/03/2001 Friday, April 13, 2001 80 CENTS
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      462 1 National education aims to highlight an important part of history to Singaporean kids, says Prime Minister Qoh Chok Tong, but students seem to be turned off by it, reports SUE-ANN CHXA. You’re rJ\ J ■fHrJ Jl If VI i J I»hßbßi| and PM knows it He asks why Ids true
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  • NEWS & VIEWS
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      Lock icon QUICKIE
      127 2 THE Force isn’t with British Star Wars fans hoping to get Jedi registered as an official religion. The Home Office quashed the validity of an e-mail campaign claiming that Jedi would be recognised if at least 10,000 people put it down in the forthcoming British census, as Jedi followers
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      Lock icon ‘Dutiful sons wronged’
      470 2 Tribunal tells families not to wash dirty linen in public FAMILY members who are embroiled in disputes should settle their quarrels in private and not go running to the press to embarrass their relatives, said the Tribunal for the Maintenance of Parents yesterday. The tribunal was responding
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    • Eyeball NEWS
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        Lock icon Dhoby Ghaut station goes deepest
        145 2 BESIDES being the biggest MRT station in Singapore, the new Dhoby Ghaut MRT Station will also be among the deepest buildings in the island with its five basement levels going down about 30 m. When completed some time next year, the underground portion of the
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      • Article
        Lock icon Performers, poets bag awards
        150 2 PERFORMING arts and fine arts bagged a bulk of the second round of the Singapore Internationale Awards, given out yesterday. The awards by the non-profit Singapore International Foundation were first launched in July last year. They are awarded twice a year to encourage the growth and
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      • Article
        Lock icon Nepali twins hit by fever
        61 2 SEPARATED Siamese twins, Ganga and Jamuna Shrestha are “running a slight fever due to infection”, a Singapore General Hospital (SGH) spokesman said in a statement yesterday. The twins, whose vital signs are stable, are being treated with antibiotics. They were born joined at the head
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    • Article
      Lock icon No news of NAC funding as O2 debuts
      275 2  -  CONTROVERSIAL PLAY Tan Dawn Wei JUST a day before the play 02 is to be staged this weekend, play-wright-director Elangovan and theatre group Agni Kootthu still haven’t heard about the funding status for their English production. They had applied to the National
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      412 3 VATICAN CITY Pope John Paul II started a hectic Easter weekend with a ceremony in which he washes and kisses the feet of 12 men in a gesture recalling Christ’s humility towards his apostles the night before he died. KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia’s trade union movement said yesterday it
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      Lock icon Another US spy plane to China?
      602 3 No plans to abandon surveillance flights, says Rice Wires WASHINGTON Even as the 24 crew members of the US Navy plane stranded on Hainan left for home, the US was preparing to send another spy plane down China’s coast “within the next week”. According
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    • Eyeball FOCUS
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        Lock icon PM willing to take flak for boring NE classes
        621 4  -  Students say reduce the propaganda and make it more fun and jazzy By Sue-Ann Chia sueann@sph.com.sg WITH great candour, Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong yesterday said he was prepared to take some of the flak for students finding their National Education
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        Lock icon Gen M told to retain ties with home
        620 4  -  P.M. SPELLS OUT DANGERS OF LOSING TALENT Sue-Ann Chia A NEW term was coined by Prime Minister Goh Chok yesterday: Generation M. Using it to describe Singapore’s younger generation, he was quick to explain that “M” did not mean “money”, but “millennium”.
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    • Singapore
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        Lock icon Future could turn nasty, so be prepared
        546 5 THE future is not all bright sunshine. In fact, it could be nasty. Outlining two possible scenarios, PM Goh Chok Tong urged Singaporeans not to assume the current state of peace and prosperity will go on forever. In fact, the two scenarios he
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        Lock icon Ex-Minister Barker dies
        458 5  -  Praised for his ‘unique role’ in S’pore’s independence bid Luke Pachymuthu FORMER Cabinet Minister E W Barker died yesterday around noon of multiple organ failure at National University Hospital. He was 80. The former Law Minister, who left the political scene in 1988, had been in the
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        Lock icon Make the most of miles
        988 6  -  Buy, fly, but read the fine print By Serene Goh sereneg@sph.com.sg FREQUENT flyer points. That used to mean, simply, bonus flights for those who travel a lot. Not any more. The term “frequent flyer programme” (FFP) has become almost a misnomer, with many credit card
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        Lock icon Airlines woo budget flyers
        260 7  -  By Toh Bee Ping beeping@sph.com.sg AIRLINES are going or rather giving that extra mile to win more customers. These days they are so aggressive that even budget flyers are being wooed. Qantas recently announced big changes to its frequent-flyer programme, scrapping expiry dates for points earned
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        Lock icon FLYING PERKS
        336 7  -  Toh Bee Ping EYEBALL looks at three frequent-flyer programmes: Northwest World Perks Minimum 20,000 miles required for a free round-trip ticket within Asia. Business and first-class passengers get 1.5 times the actual amount of miles flown. No expiry date on miles. Only seven flights out of Singapore every
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        Lock icon TIPS TO GAINING THE MOST
        105 7  -  Serene Goh TO AVOID any heartache, here are some tips from card operators: Pick a programme for which points do not expire. This gives you time to gain more rewards. Supplementary cards. Gives you more points from combined charges, accumulating rewards for one account. Equal
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    • The World
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        Lock icon No sure winner in Japan poll
        915 8 PM contenders outline economic plans Wires TOKYO The upcoming Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) presidential election is probably the most open, unpredictable therefore most watchable in recent history. Unlike previous elections, the winner who will become Japan’s next Prime Minister was not virtually decided by
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        Lock icon Thai PM: No bomb on plane
        193 9 ACCEPTS U.S. FINDINGS Wires BANGKOK Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said yesterday that he accepted findings by US investigators that there was no evidence that a bomb caused a Thai Airways airplane to explode before he was about to board the plane last month.
        – Wires; Reuters  -  193 words
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        Lock icon ‘Go fry your faces’
        709 9 Anticipating bad press for arrests, Mahathir tells off foreign media Wires KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian Prime Minster Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad seemed to be on the back foot yesterday as he addressed a press conference two days after a police crackdown on the opposition. Anticipating bad
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    • Technology
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        Lock icon What if I were God?
        537 10  -  See your own soul in colour By Wagner James Au Salon OTHER god games give you power Black White gives you yourself. That is what sets it apart from other real-time strategy god games. Black White is, in effect, a sort of ethics simulator. It
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        Lock icon Hold the world in your palm, and shape it
        552 10  -  Salon AS BLACK WHITE begins, the player is literally summoned into existence by a tribe’s need for a god. You begin your life as a deity on a verdant island, populated by seven races, each with its own distinctive traits, including
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        Lock icon Black is more fun than White
        452 11  -  By Eugene Wee eugenew@sph.com.sg Ever wanted to feel what it would be like to have power, absolute power, over everything and everyone? Black ix White, from Electronic Arts, gives you the opportunity to do just that by letting you step into the shoes of
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        Lock icon Play god with these titles
        281 11  -  By Steven Ng stevenng@sph.com.sg BLACK WHITE is not the only god game available in the market. Here are some others: The Sims Undoubtedly the most popular god game in recent times. Instead of achieving the usual goal of good city or resource management, in this
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        Lock icon Xerox gets rid of Windows XP betas
        380 11 NETWORK OUTAGE Wires CONNECTICUT Xerox has pulled the plug on employees running beta versions of Windows XP after the document company experienced several major outages over the past 10 days. Kara Choquette, a Xerox spokeswoman in Connecticut, confirmed that last week the company
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    • Business
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        Lock icon BRAIN DRAIN
        101 12 NYT YAHOO, once the most stable and well-respected portal on the Internet, continues to experience substantial management turnover. It said on Wednesday that Heather Killen, who has run its operations in 24 countries outside the US, would step down from day-to-day operations. This year a number of the
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        Lock icon It’s nothing to Yahoo about
        297 12 Popular Net portal announces first quarterly loss in almost two years NYT YAHOO, the advertising-driven Internet portal, reported on Wednesday its first quarterly loss in nearly two years, and said it would lay off 12 per cent of its 3,510 employees. It also announced a
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        Lock icon Flash furniture going cheap
        618 12 Lat-Wp “SEE those 90 chairs? They’re practically brand-new, from a down-sized dotcom. And these computer desks? From a dead dotcom. “The Haworth work stations, which probably cost US$5,OOO (559,000) apiece, are from a company that tracked satellites. I sell ’em for U 551,400,” said Bob Wendling,
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        Lock icon Layoff fever hits consultancy firms PwC and Scient
        233 12 DECLINING DEMAND NYT NOW, a giant quivers. Big Five constituent PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and Scient Corp announced layoffs on Wednesday, with both blaming declining demand for their advisory services. The New York-based PwC will lay off between 750 and 1,000 people in its
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        Lock icon New wafer plant
        78 13 This is how the UMC wafer fabrication park will look like, explained UMCi Division director Roger Chung (centre) to guests yesterday. At the park s groundbreaking ceremony, Trade and Industry Minister George Yeo said despite a global slump in semiconductor demand, Singapore planned to build a fourth
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        Lock icon DBS takeover offer drags STI down
        639 13  -  Bank’s shares lose 10% over plan to acquire Dao Heng Bank By Nicholas Yong nicyong@sph.com.sg LIKE Sing Tel, like DBS. The DBS scrip was hammered in the market yesterday, after Singapore’s largest bank, by asset size, unveiled a $9.8-billion offer for a 71-per cent
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      • Business BUZZ
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          Lock icon 3G road show not a wasted effort
          160 13 THERE may not have been an auction before handing out3G licences, but that doesn’t mean that the Infocomm Development Authority’s (IDA) road show to attract European bidders last year was a fruitless exercise. Communications and Information Technology Minister Yeo Cheow Tong told reporters
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          Lock icon Singapore dollar creeps up
          47 13 THE Singapore dollar crept up against the greenback to 1.8030 with trading volumes picking up in the afternoon. Dealers said investment banks and local banks were keen to buy the dollar at 1.8025-30, with others squaring their positions ahead of the long weekend.
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          Lock icon SingTel seeking Optus purchase loan
          56 13 SINGTEL said yesterday that it was seeking a record As 3 billion (S$ 2.7 billion) loan to finance its purchase of Cable Wireless Optus. Citibank has been appointed co-ordinator and mandated the lead arranger, while Overseas Union Bank, United Overseas Bank and Westpac Banking Corp
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          Lock icon PCCW deputy chief set to resign
          33 13 PACIFIC CENTURY CYBERWORKS deputy chairman Peter To will resign shortly, but he is expected to remain on the board of directors, the Hong Kong Economic Journal reported.
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      • Eyeball SAYS
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          Lock icon Next step: Learn to make the first move
          730 14 THE Singapore Kindness Movement ends this Sunday to little fanfare and much scepticism. Its detractors argue that the campaign has precious little to show for its four years of work. People are as brusque and inconsiderate as they ever were. Pregnant women
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      • Generation NEXT
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          Lock icon Beware the Auntie Network
          490 15  -  By Gail Aw teens@eyeball.com.sg MY FRIENDS and I have a label for the peculiar brand of competitive parenting we have here: the Auntie Network. A choice sample: (Well-meaning auntie trots along to unsuspecting parent): “Eh, how did your daughter do for her PSLE ah? My son
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          Lock icon Don’t blame parents, blame society
          556 15 ‘Parents push kids upstream’ (April 4) SOME parents of Primary students are asking schools to move their children into a higher stream than school testing recommends. Will these students benefit in the long run? Are they being pushed too hard? Is it more about the
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      • Article
        Lock icon Cut down on the unnecessary stuff – PM Goh
        355 15 Cut down on the unnecessary stuff PM Goh IN A question-and-answer session following yesterday’s inaugural Raffles Institution Lecture on National Issues, Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong provided his views on the stresses of school. Question: Do you see any way of reducing the level of stress placed on students without
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      27 2 02 is on tomorrow and Sunday, 8 pm, at the Guinness Theatre, The Substation. Tickets at $10 are available at The Substation box office (Tel: 337 7800).
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      22 2 Qood morning! Showers with thunder over many areas in the afternoon. High: 32C 1 Low: 24C Tides: 1.45AM/2.8M 3.18PM/2.4M Met Service: http://www.gov.sg/metsin
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      29 3 So who do you think came out looking good? Tell us at http^/eyebalLasiaLconusg For more opinions on the Internet http://www.time.com/ time/world/article/0,8599J*****.00.html Time magazine rates the losers and the winners.
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      139 9 Permit No: MHP*****2 $29 per bottle (236 ml) matol tonic MATOL was created in CANADA in 1992 and made up of 13 herbs. MATOL is used for those with the following chronic discomforts: Chronic fatigue Pain in the joints Shortness of breath when climbing stairs Lack of appetite Irregular bowel
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      42 11 04.13.01 HELEN, SWEETHEART OF THE INTERNET i invitee? you a u. hbrb TO ASK you GOtABTHIUG. My THERAPIST TOU? Mg LAST KIIOHT THAT I OAKi 86... fNSENSITIVg. WgLLv CAW I? cn um, Hgy, you OAK ee anything you WANT! SIGH... WO NO
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  • EyeSport
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      Lock icon POWER RANKINGS
      350 16 National Basketball Association 7 he NBA regular season ends next week, and Eye Sport gives you the lowdown on some playoff contenders in this week's Power Rankings. i Smir Best of the Eastern Team inm 1. Philadelphia 76ers 54 24 Memo to Allen Iverson: When you score 40-plus
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      Lock icon Charming chumps
      567 16 Hounded by misfortune, Pacers stumble into the playoffs Lat-Wp INDIANAPOLIS Now wait a minute. How did the Pacers get their scripts so confused? Whose lines are these guys reading? These are the defending Eastern Conference champions, yet, here they are, playing the part of the charming chumps. They
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      Lock icon Sports CLICKERS
      196 16 Formula One: It’s that time of week again when motor racing’s elite FI class will be burning rubber and smoking up the tracks in San Marino in Imola. Ladies, this potent mix is better than sex, we’ll be the first to warn you. So if you’re hoping to
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      Lock icon Gory end to game
      491 17 Surge into soccer stadium kills 43 Reuters JOHANNESBURG Petrus Saayman watched in horror as a teenage girl was strangled between the steel bars of a security gate, one of dozens killed in South Africa’s worst sports disaster. “I saw a girl stuck inside the gates and
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    • Sport IN SHORT
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        Lock icon Tyson, Izon fight set
        91 18  -  USA Today FORMER heavyweight champion Mike Tyson will fight David Izon on June 2 at the MCI Center in Washington, Tyson adviser Shelly Finkel said on Wednesday. Finkel had been negotiating to stage the fight in Sydney, Australia, but “in the end, this was just better
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        Lock icon Coach to be tried
        79 18 AFP CANBERRA Top Australian swim coach Gennadi Touretski will stand trial next month for possession of the banned steroid Stanozolol. Touretski did not appear in a magistrates court yesterday when proceedings were adjourned to May 3. The 51-year-old coach faces a maximum penalty of six months
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        Lock icon Batistuta left out
        80 18 Reuters BUENOS AIRES Striker Gabriel Batistuta was left out of Argentina’s squad for this month’s World Cup qualifier in Bolivia which was announced on Wednesday. Argentine media speculated that AS Roma, Batistuta’s Italian club, had argued that their prized striker could afford to miss the game as
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      Lock icon ON THE BOX THIS WEEKEND
      203 18 What: English Premier League Liverpool vs Leeds United When: Today, 6.30 pm, Live (Football Channel, SCV Ch 22) Why bother: They’re the two hottest teams in the Premiership, if not Europe. Expect a Battle of the Robbies, as Liverpool’s Fowler and Leeds’ Keane try to
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      Lock icon F1’s top four shift into high gear
      586 18 GRAPHIC NEWS This weekend, Formula One goes to Europe, where fortunes are made or lost. EYESPORT looks at the front runners for the Imola, San Marino, race. MICHAEL SCHUMACHER Ferrari STILL in the lead with 26 points, six points ahead of closest challenger
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      278 17 The New Balance new balance Suspension System new balance No single technology meets all the needs of serious absorption. Each shoe has a number of integrated athletes, that is why we have developed the New components designed to suit the specific needs of Balance Suspension System™. This system of specific
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      730 19 EyeOnlobs PROJECT TECHNICIAN Required in Hougang area. NTC 3 Knowledge in Autocad Class 3 licence is a must Able to start work immed. SV^-dayweek Interested applicants, pis. contact Pearlyn 2848-706 On Monday 16 April 2001 LISUS INTERNATIONAL PTE LTD is one of the leading fabricators and designers of Point Fixed
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  • Unwind
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      Lock icon They win again
      940 20 Oh no! The Brothers Qihh are back. And as their 2jth album rocks up the UK charts, RONALD RAJAN (ronrajan@sph.com.sg) takes you through the A-Zof The Bee Qees. OCK their trembling falsettos and silly L J hairdos all you like, but we bet you hum i i
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    • Music
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        Lock icon ANDY GIBB: THE LOST BROTHER
        188 21  -  Ronald Rajan WHY The Bee Gees never co-opted kid brother Andy (as The Jackson 5 and Osmonds did for their younger siblings) into the band remains a mystery. The youngest and best-looking Gibb (right) seemed destined for super-stardom. While still a teen in 1977, he
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        Lock icon Nelly vs Nelly
        648 22 Ones a hip-hop heavyweight; the others a singer-poet. Both are riding on the cusp of superstardom. RONALD RAJAN (ronrajan@sph.com.sg) delves into the twin phenomena. VERY once in a while, the pop universe is set abuzz by happy coincidences. This certainly holds true today for two gifted youngsters
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        Lock icon Bringing back the Supremes
        500 22  -  By Ronald Rajan ronrajan@sph.com.sg MENTION the term “tribute band” and someone inevitably sniggers. Immediately, pictures of geezers in loud suits doing campy knock-offs of Elvis, Abba and the like, come to mind. Sometimes though, they come with a touch of class. Later this month, the Sounds
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        Lock icon Snow show a blast of imagination
        378 23 Slava s Snow Show tantalises JUNE WAN (junewan@sph.com.sg) with its wondrous world of fantasy and imagination. OT only is Slava’s Snow Show a feast for the eyes, it’s a feast for the other senses, too. The show exploits lighting and sound to transform the
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        Lock icon Too drab to be fun
        463 24 Reviews: Ronald Rajan JUST ENOUGH EDUCATION TO PERFORM Stereophonies (V 2) THE Stereophonies’ third outing after the triumphs of their previous works features more nuggets of the working-class sensibility that we’ve come to expect from them. Sadly, all this “keeping it real” is making life
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        Lock icon BEFORE THEY WERE STARS
        234 24 BEFORE he became a rock star, The Stereophonies’ Kelly Jones had a very different career he was the local boxing champ of his native town of Cwmaman in Wales. But he’s not the first. Others before him included: Elvis Presley Before he became “The King”, young
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        Lock icon This one’s for the heart, not feet
        664 25 POP I ROCK R&B I SOUL THE BALLAD COLLECTION Boyz II Men (Universal) MORE clever packaging on this one, as the unsuspecting consumer is led to believe that there’s something awfully special about this compendium. As its title emphasises, The Ballad Collection is
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        Lock icon DOWNLOAD OF THE WEEK
        170 25  -  June Wan DOCTOR DEATH used to be a big-time bruiser but now spends his days cooking fries, staring at the hotplate and hoping that his patrons like their bacon crispy. “On a slow day he dreams about the glory/it seems so long ago, just like someone
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        Lock icon CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK
        231 25  -  Ronald Rajan Electric Warrior T-Rex (A&M) THE short life and career of 1970 s glam rock icon Marc Bolan ended tragically in September 1977 when his car crashed into a tree, killing him instantly. Just five years before, his band T-Rex ruled the UK charts
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    • Food
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        Lock icon Kitchen cosmetics
        728 26 Moisturise your face with mayonnaise and scrub your body with castor sugar. Cosmetics need not be expensive if you know how to raid your fridge. ANGELICA TAN (tanaw@sph.com.sg) reports. F YOU thought mayonnaise is good with chicken, wait till you try it on your face. “Mayonnaise is made
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        Lock icon BEAUTY AT HOME
        218 26 FORGET cold creams and cosmetics. Whip up a batch of your own body scrubs and creams. These can be kept in jars for future use and make great gifts. For $lO per person, you could sign up for Devagi’s Asian Beauty Secrets from the Kitchen workshop held
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        Lock icon A dash of flair
        576 27 Famed Italian eatery Da Paolo has a new flagship in Neil Road. ANGELICA TAN (tanaw@sph .com.sg) visits Da Paolo e Judie and is bowled over by luscious servings of elegant fare. Restaurant: Da Paolo e Judie Where: 81 Neil Road What: Dapper flagship that replaces the
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      • Pick of the EATS
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          Lock icon East meets West
          81 27 FOR a good variety of Eastern and Western cuisines, head for Palm’s Asian Brasserie at Copthorne Orchid Hotel. Fresh seafood like seasoned top shells are available, next to sauteed greens with Pacific clams. Western offerings come in the form of various pastas, ribeyes chicken vol-au-vent and a
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          Lock icon Buffet brunch
          97 27 IF NOTHING tempts you more than a selection of gourmet dishes prepared by star chefs, you can swear by the Orchard Cafe’s buffet brunch, at Orchard Hotel. Sample delicious dishes like Australian freshwater marrons, homemade wild rabbit terrine, almond lamb kebab and steamed paper bag snow fish, before
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          Lock icon Watch your food
          95 27  -  Lim Hui Ling WATCH what goes into your food at St Gregory’s Brasserie located at Grand Plaza Parkroyal. Chefs stationed at the different stalls demonstrate how to whip up a feast of local and international favourites. Some of the yummies include Vietnamese spring rolls, Japanese tempura, Sichuan
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      33 21 Many have raided the Gibbs’ songbooks for a hit. See who’s made a Bee Gees tune their own, then find out what some famous fans have to say about the trio at http://eyeball.asial.coiii.sg
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      98 23 Slava’s Snow Show will be at the Kallang Theatre until April 22. Tickets are available at Sistic (Tel: 348 5555 or at http://www.sistic.com.sg) m m K I i r k >Wr -^v^Axa^e t>fe Priced Far t/ze Freshest Catch Everyday! Don't forget our House Specialties! Chilli Crabs Pepper Crabs Drunken Prawns
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