Project Eyeball, 3 May 2001

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  • 11 1 projecteyeball eyeball-asial.com.sg Mita (p) 105/03/2001 Thursday, May 3, 2001 80 CENTS
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    • 415 1 CRAZY ABOUT MEN AMD MOVIES Our salt-of-the-earth movie commentator Nina San returns, only to be confronted with a sea of testosterone. See Page 21 I WANT TO BE BATMAN And I could, if I wanted to, and if Eyeball would give me two years’ no-pay leave to work on my
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  • NEWS & VIEWS
    • Article, Illustration
      115 2 DON’T mind the beeping mobile during church service because you just received a prayer SMS from your priest. Reverend Stefan Heinze of the Hanover Evangelical Youth Church will hold the world’s first mobile phone religious service with prayers being sent out as text messages. One of them will be
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    • 545 2  -  Live webcast allows viewers to pick from four camera angles BY Eugene Wee eugenew@sph.com.sg TIRED of watching the National Day Parade (NDP) from pre-set camera angles on the telly? Forget the TV remote. Reach out for your mouse instead. This year’s multimedia-laden NDP 01
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    • 245 2 SHE headed an all-woman ring that ran a members-only pornographic video library, but couldn’t escape the law. Yesterday, 41-year-old Lim Kwee Kee was sentenced to 12 months in jail and the maximum fine of $170,000 by a district court. Divorcee Lim and her
      The Straits Times  -  245 words
    • Eyeball NEWS
      • 90 2 VISITORS to Singapore Auto Salon 2001 will be able to see some of the latest models from major makers, perhaps as many as 50. Singapore’s will be the third show in the world to exhibit the new successor to the Lamborghini Diablo and the
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      • 54 2 VIEWERS’ voices will be heeded, said Singapore’s new broadcasting station Media Works. Viewers want Mediaworks’ channels to include more Japanese anime, sci-fi programmes, comedies, and information on the local arts scene. The Mandarin Channel U will go on air on Sunday, and the English TV
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    • Article, Illustration
      279 3 WASHINGTON The White House began a search for a new Federal Bureau of Investigation director after incumbent Louis Freeh announced he would step down from his post in June without giving a reason. ISLAMABAD Pakistani military ruler Gen Pervez Musharraf appointed Karachi Corps Comd Lieut Gen Muzaffar Hussain
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    • 732 3 Jailed ex-deputy premier hits out at in lengthy letter Wires KUALA LUMPUR Jailed politician Anwar Ibrahim yesterday defiantly rejected a government offer of spinal surgery in Malaysia and insisted that he had the right to an overseas operation. His refusal means that he
      – Wires; Reuters  -  732 words
    • Eyeball FOCUS
      • Article, Illustration
        882 4  -  Social workers use stage to raise community awareness BY Tan Dawn Wei dawntan@sph.com.sg SOCIAL work and the arts. Hardly what one would consider normal bedfellows. But if art mirrors life, then it can also play a valuable social role. And indeed, more social workers are recognising this
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    • 189 4 THE three-week-long FamFest 2001 ends this weekend with Let’s Talk, a live talkshow hosted by The Necessary Stage’s resident playwright Haresh Sharma. About five guests are invited for each session to talk about the issues relevant to family life. Single in Singapore Today, 8 pm Guests
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    • Singapore
      • 367 5 Doctors should accept that Internet-savvy patients expect better care and service, says Hng Kiang DOCTORS must accept that today’s Inter-net-sawy patients will have higher expectations of care and service, said Health Minister Lim Hng Kiang to about 250 newly-registered doctors yesterday. He added that it
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      • 343 5  -  3-D MACHINE TO DEBUT AT HOSPITAL BY Sue-Ann Chia sueann@sph.com.sg NOW, a neurosurgeon can perform the same operation on a patient as many times as he wants till he gets it right. Using a 3-D machine called the Dextroscope developed locally by Volume Interactions neurosurgeons can practise, in
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      • 629 6 Get on with your work, he tells MPs Wires JAKARTA From his television in the presidential palace, President Abdurrahman Wahid had watched Parliament censure him on Monday. Yesterday, he went on television to chide the lawmakers, in turn, for failing to do their own work. Addressing
        – Wires; AP  -  629 words
      • 441 6 PRESIDENT ARROYO ADOPTS TOUGH STAND Wires MANILA Calm returned to the capital yesterday as Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo widened a crackdown against political opponents she accuses of trying to topple her. Ernesto Maceda, the Philippines ambassador to the US under Estrada,
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      • 938 7  -  Introducing the missile defence plan Mik Zarzuela Wires WASHINGTON The biggest concession that President George W Bush made to his allies yesterday as he unveiled his controversial missile defence plans was that he conspicuously dropped the prefix “national” while referring to it. This was presumably to make
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      • 342 8 Aussie court awards her $400,000 SYDNEY In what could be a world’s first, an Australian woman has won more than A5450,000 (*****,000) in damages yesterday, after a court agreed that passive smoking had caused her to contract throat cancer. Marlene Sharp, 62, sued
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      • Article, Illustration
        64 8 Stuntman Julian Saunders descending from atop a hot-air balloon where he took part in the world’s first tea party (right) with fellow adventurers Rob Oilver and Ross Taylor in Melbourne, Australia, yesterday. The balloon was flying at around 1,500 m above the ground. A tape of the feat
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      • 406 8 U.S COPS HAD KILLED AFRICAN WHOM THEY THOUGHT HAD A GUN NYT NEW YORK The market for morbid memorabilia has a new star this week as a chunk of what is said to be the bullet-riddled door in front of which Amadou Diallo was killed
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    • Technology
      • 323 9 Apple aims to win back schools AFP CUPERTINO (California) Apple Computer has unveiled its new ißook -a sleek 2.2-kg and 3.3-cm thick pearl-coloured notebook computer that Apple chief executive Steve Jobs said would ship within two weeks. The new machine, which features a 500
        – AFP; Reuters  -  323 words
      • 379 9 NEW WAVE OF HYBRID DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT GIZMOS AP THE battle to dominate armchair entertainment has begun. Companies across multiple industries are beginning to roll out converged devices hybrid products that allow you to enjoy different forms of entertaiment. Such gizmos, which could be
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      • 130 10 w The ATTC can easily conquer undulating terrain at a maximum speed of 40 km/h. Although not amphibious, the carrier can traverse inland waterways like rivers. Tracks, sprockets and wheels are made of rubber, giving better suspension. The SAF's latest All Terrain Tracked Carrier, yet
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      • 446 10  -  SAF’s new homemade all-terrain carrier is quiet, manoeuvrable and can negotiate rivers BY Steven Ng stevenng@sph.com.sg IT LOOKS like a tank without the big guns, and moves like a raging rhino without the usual rumbling. This is what best describes the All Terrain Tracked Carrier
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    • Business
      • 427 11  -  Recovery may continue, say analysts BY Francis Kan AND Nicholas Yong francisk@sph.com.sg nicyong@sph.com.sg IT’S thumbs-up time in the markets at long last. At least for now. The benchmark Straits Times Index (STI) shot up 0.9 per cent yesterday to close at 1,737.66 points, its highest level in
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      • Business BUZZ
        • 140 11 THE slowdown in the global economy is expected to take its toll on the manufacturing sector in the next six months, found an Economic Development Board survey of business expectations in the manufacturing sector for the second quarter of2ool. Of the 423 manufacturing companies surveyed, 91 per
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        • 84 11 POWERGRID has started installing Time of Day (TOD) meters for 4,600 non-domestic customers who utilise more than 240,000 kWh of electricity annually. Unlike normal meters which record monthly consumption, TOD meters allow electricity consumption to be captured in half-hourly intervals. This will allow consumption patterns to be charted
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        • 71 11 STAR ALLIANCE an airline grouping which includes, among others, United Airlines, Lufthansa, Air Canada and Singapore Airlines (SIA) has appointed Jaan Albrecht as its chief executive officer (CEO) from June 1. The move is part of a shake-up within the grouping’s senior management, said SIA yesterday. Albrecht,
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        • 65 11 RED SQUARE, a creative agency set up in 1999, has clinched a DBS Bank advertising project, defeating rival Tequila Asia-Pacific -a unit partly-owned by Singapore’s biggest advertising agency Batey Ads. The DBS project involves creative work for its DBS Cards Staff-Get-Member Drive, which aims to capitalise on the
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      • 514 11  -  CHANCES OF U.S. ESCAPING ALL-OUT RECESSION LOOK BRIGHTER BY Paul Krugman NYT THINGS are getting worse more slowly let’s celebrate! That seemed to be the mood in the markets on Tuesday after the National Association of Production Managers (NAPM) released its monthly survey for April.
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    • Mailbox
      • E-Male ADDRESS
        • 695 14  - I want to be Batman oh yes, I can BY Eugene Wee eugenew@sph.com.sg I WANT to be Batman. Seriously, I could if I wanted to. But more on that later. Eyeball’s story on Tuesday about Wonder Woman turning 60 got me thinking about superheroes and how they act as role
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      • 34 14 WHO’S the greatest action heroine of all? 35% Lara Croft 26% Wonder Woman 19% -Xena 14% Bionic Woman 4% -Super Girl 2%-Catwoman Based on 80 responses to our online poll.
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      • Eyeballing THE NET
        • 262 15 Magfat tops broadband survey (May 1) LOCAL broadband subscribers gave Sing Tel Magix the thumbs-up for performance, and SCV a pat on the back for value-for-money, in an Eyeball poll. But consistency of service is still an issue. And have newcomers Qala
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        • 554 15  -  BY Andrew chin andrewc@sph.com.sg BROADBAND access, to me, represents a means to a yet unknown end. The crawl of dial-up connections may sound like a fine excuse to upgrade to a high-speed connection. Consider how you can zip through websites at 10 times the
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    • 17 2 Log on to: http://www.ndpol.org.sg for all the updates and events leading up to National Day Parade 01.
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 27 2 Qood morning! Showers with thunder over many areas in the late morning and early afternoon. High: 32C 1 Low: 25C Tides: 7.11AM/2.3M 8.58PM/2.4M Met Service: http:// www.gov.sg/metsin
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    • 55 14 With the Internet, you too can be Batman. Log on to these sites and let your training begin: www.fitnessonline.com and www.yourfitness.com To get Batman’s agility, physical strength and stamina. martialarts.about.com and www.martialarts-guide.com To fight like the Bat. www.crimetheory.com and www.lawman.com To think like the crime-fighting Bat. www.gadgets.com and www.browseandbuy.com To
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  • EyeSport
    • Sport IN SHORT
      • Article, Illustration
        77 16 Reuters LONDON-Gary McAllister, 36, made one goal for Michael Owen and scored another from a freekick to help Liverpool jump to third in the Premier League with a 2-0 victory over relegated Bradford Cityon Tuesday. Liverpool are now third on 62 points with three games left, ahead
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      • 70 16 Wires RIO DE JANEIRO Former World Cup Winning coach Carlos Alberto Parreira has revealed that the Brazilian Football Federation has asked him to take over the Brazil team. Parreira had turned down the first approach but admitted that he may take it up after all. “When I
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      • 66 16 Reuters BANGKOKManchester United fans in Thailand are furious that only 4,000 tickets were allocated to the public for a friendly between their national team and the English champions in July. Thousands of fans camped overnight for tickets in the 60,000seat Rajamangala stadium, but a source said that more
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      • 90 17 Reuters LONDON Italian Gianluca Vialli was appointed to manage first division Watford on Wednesday, succeeding former England manager Graham Taylor. Vialli, 36, was sacked as Chelsea manager on Sept 12 only five matches into the new season after guiding the London Premier League club to the Cup
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      • 91 17 Reuters. ROME Lazio has been banned from its home ground for one match for its fans’ racist behaviour at Sunday’s Rome derby. The club was also fined U 5527,600 (S$50,100), an Italian Football League spokeswoman said yesterday. Lazio fans booed AS Roma’s Brazilian players Cafu and Aldair, as
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      • 51 17 Reuters NEW YORK-The NBA fined Milwaukee Bucks forward Tim Thomas US$5,OOO (559,000) for making an obscene gesture towards fans during Saturday’s playoff loss to the Magic in Orlando. The incident took place with 3:50 left in the third quarter of Game Three of the Eastern Conference first-round
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    • 423 16 Mavs, Jazz sharpen knives for Game 5 DALLAS Get ready for some fireworks. The Dallas Mavericks and Utah Jazz, who like each other about as much as, oh, cats and dogs, are going to a Game 5. That would mean Dirk Nowitzki is going to
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    • 393 16 CHAMPIONS LEAGUE IN FOOTBALL, the Germans are known for their technical and tactical approaches. Yesterday, Bayern Munich demonstrated what the German game is all about. For 93 minutes, Ottmar Hitzfeld’s men withstood an almostcontinuous onslaught from Real Madrid in their first leg Champions League semi-final
      Mik Zarzuela  -  393 words
    • Article, Illustration
      571 17 Andy Roddick could be US tennis hope Nyt “l’VE got A-Rod right here,” the public relations person from the men’s tennis tour said on the telephone the other day. A-Rod? Had Alex Rodriguez, the highest-paid baseball player for the Texas Rangers who recently signed a 10-year, $252 million
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    • 124 17 NFL: Forget the sports analysts who sit in the comfort of their snug studios telling the world what they think about the first days at American football mini-camp. Yes, they’re clued in through their laundry list of sources, but why go through the middleman when you can get it
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    • 278 17 CHAMP DECIDING ON CHALLENGERS, BUT... Lat-Wp BALTIMORE Heavyweight champion Hasim Rahman may not be able to say yet whom or when he’s fighting next, but he can say this: He hasn’t been dealing with Don King. Rahman denied a report in Tuesday’s Washington Times
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  • Unwind
    • Clubbing
      • 1193 18 Karl Ho SENTOSA, the sandy utopia for families, tourists and surfer dudes, is making waves as Singapore’s newest rave central. Fresh from presenting the Zoukout party and techno showcase Ke 07, Siloso Beach is set to play host to pounding grooves and uninhibited euphoria in the coming
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      • Movies
        • 958 20 Tinseltown is being held hostage, with the Writers' Quild of America amwie studio swfa ngli ng over the terms of a contract to replace the one that lapsed yesterday. It all makes fora meat oj]-screen Hollywood drama, (7i CLARA CHOW (clarac@sph.som.sg) mnds out. LATELY, Hollywood’s off-screen
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        • Like that HOW CAN?
          • 487 21 Testosterone is back, in answer to oestrogen-powered f licks like Erin Brockovich and movies featuring tunes by Destiny’s Child. NINA KAN considers this effect on her child’s delicate psyche. EAR readers, thank you for writing in to Project Eyeball to ask where I’ve been recently. But
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          • 438 21 IN HIS prickly and passionate new book Movie Wars: How Hollywood And The Media Conspire To Limit What Films We Can See ($39.99 from Borders), Chicago Reader film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum argues that American movie audiences are merely sheep. Thanks to puff journalism and
            – Cox News Service  -  438 words
        • Cyber SNITCH
          • 74 22 LAUGHTER, not money, makes the world go round, lifts a dreary afternoon and cures that irritating migraine. So if you missed the 15th annual American Comedy Awards on April 22, catch the guffaws at http://www.hollywood. corn’s exclusive. Watch comedians reveal their weirdest dinner party requests (“She wanted me
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          • 97 22 WANT to know if a show really sucks? You could ask a critic, or get a brutally honest opinion with Thugs On Film at http://www.film.com. In this week’s animated short, skinny Cecil and chubby Stubby review Josie And The Pussycats, a musical movie about three hot chicks who
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          • 99 22 June Wan ALTHOUGH this is based on a symposium held at the University of California in Los Angeles in January 1994, the topic, a discussion of female monsters and fiends in American movies, is still relevant. After all, aren’t they there in Asian films as well? The site,
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          • 37 22 ‘lt’s like having a porn star in my house, only she’s making salad.’ a horny Paul Reiser as he leers shamelessly at Liv Tyler during a family barbecue in One Night At McCool’s
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        • 928 22  -  Ronald Rajan ENEMY AT THE GATES (PG) Jude Law, Joseph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz, Bob Hoskins, Ed Harris IN A film that’s decidedly off-target, two mystically gifted snipers face off amid history’s biggest and bloodiest battle the five-month siege of Stalingrad during World War 11. Enemy At
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        • 227 22  -  Jeanmarie Tan THE fun is certainly in the chase. With the clock ticking and lives at stake, classic movie nemeses find their lives intertwining in subtle homoerotic, love-hate bonds. So beware. In this game, heroes and villains are opposite sides of the same coin. The Day Of The
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        • 427 23 FINDING FORRESTER (PG) Sean Connery, Rob Brown, Anna Paquin, F Murray Abraham APPARENTLY director Gus Van Sant isn’t daunted by his misguided 1998 scene-by- scene remake of Psycho. With the overwrought, over-long Finding Forrester, he thieves from Scent Of A Woman and his own commercial smash
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        • 156 23  -  June Wan RED RIDING HOOD By Donna Leishman Time: 3 mins 50 sec http://www.6amhoover.com A MODERN and animated take on the traditional tale brings Red Riding Hood into the present, lifting the hood on the story’s deeper psychological instincts. Red’s journey into the woods is punctuated by distractions
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  • The Back Page
    • Chats & Mouse
      • 196 24 Survivor 3 HAVE you heard about the next Survivor? Mark Burnett, producer of Survivor, plans to enlist 12 men who will be dropped in an unidentified neighbourhood with a van, six children (each of whom play two sports and take either a musical instrument or dance class), and no access
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      • 92 24 So your daughter’s a hooker, and it spoiled your day...look at the bright side, she’s really good at her job. My tyre was thumping.... I thought it was flat when I looked at the tyre.... I noticed your cat...sorry. You had your bladder removed and you’re on
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    • 101 24 Brit television siren Denise Van Onten (left) is no longer curvy, but rather stick-thin now, having shrunk from a 34C to a 34A bust. The 26-year-old star used to give TV viewers a wake-up call when she flashed her cleavage on the morning screen.
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    • 115 24 SUPERMODEL Niki Taylor (right) is in critical condition in an Atlanta hospital after suffering from a car crash early Sunday. She is having severe internal injuries and is under heavy sedation. According to Reuters, the 26-year-old model was a passenger in a vehicle that crashed
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    • Making HEADLINES
      • 66 24 A CHARLIE’S Angels sequel could come out early next year, says producer Leonard Goldberg The script is already in the pipeline, and will be presented to the Angels Drew Barrymore, Cameron Diaz and Lucy Lin —for their perusal.Meanwhile, Goldberg is eyeing Sandra Bnllock for
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      • 69 24 Wires VICTORIA BECKHAM’S new track, Every Part Of Me, will feature singing by her two-year-old son Brooklyn (above). The tot also recorded backing vocals for Mum’s upcoming CD, Girlfriend.. Jennifer Lopez sent seductive photos out in a bid to win a singing partnership with Robbie Williams. The Latino siren
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