Project Eyeball, 15 May 2001

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    11 1 projecteyeball. eyeball.asiaLcom,sg Mita (p) 105/03/2001 Tuesday, May 15, 2001 80 CENTS
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      466 1 WHY DO WE MAKE THE FIRST MOVE? Women have it easy, says Dave Barry. They just sit back, do nothing but snigger when men do what they have to do come up with the pick-up line. See Page 14 WE ARE VAIN AS PEACOCKS TOO It’s not only women who
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  • NEWS & VIEWS
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      Lock icon QUICKIE
      108 2 TWO Belgian men have been stealing women’s handbags and mobile phones in exchange for a kiss when they return them. While the more skillful of the pair carries out the task of stealing the women’s possessions, it is the wily one who approaches the frantic owners and then volunteers
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    • Article
      Lock icon Easier for parents to pay university fees with CPF
      307 2  -  Relaxed rules mean scheme is more open to lower-income families Wong Sher Maine CPF rules will be relaxed to make it easier for parents to finance their children’s tertiary education here. Today, a parent needs to set aside a minimum of
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    • Eyeball NEWS
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        Lock icon Sufian to be operated today
        118 2 SUFIAN AS SAURI, a nine-year-old boy with a hole in his heart, is due back in hospital today for an operation. Eyeball had carried a story on April 18 on how Sufian’s school, Madrasah Wak Tanjung, had raised $6,000 for his previous operations. Sufian underwent
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      • Article
        Lock icon Fifa clears Aussie footballer
        81 2 AN AUSTRALIAN player facing a life ban on soccer match-fixing charges in Singapore has been cleared by the world body governing soccer, Fifa, according to the Australian Professional Footballers’ Association. In January, Mirko Jurilj was sentenced to five months in jail on match-fixing charges involving his
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      • Article
        Lock icon E-mail, SMS alerts forgetful patients
        79 2 FORGETFUL patients at the National Skin Centre now have one less reason to skip their appointments. They now get a reminder e-mail or an SMS two days before their appointment. The reminder service came into effect yesterday, with some 300 SMS messages sent out for
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      • Article
        Lock icon JC Chan is new Solicitor-General
        56 2 ON JUNE 1, Judicial Commissioner Chan Seng Onn will assume the position of Solicitor-General. Chan, 47, began his career with the Government Service in 1979. His appointment will fill a position that has been left vacant for close to 10 years since former Solicitor-General Koh
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      Lock icon Sintercom down for now
      298 2  -  FOUNDER AND MODERATOR OF WEB FORUM TRADE CHARGES Toh Bee Ping SINTERCOM, one of the more well-informed local current affairs forums, has degenerated into a verbal war zone. One of the founders and the moderator are at loggerheads. In a message posted on the forum’s website
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      Lock icon World Watch
      281 3 WASHINGTON The United States will give Taiwanese President Chen Shuibian a visa to transit on his way to Latin America later this month, Secretary of State Colin Powell said yesterday. VITORIA The governing moderate nationalists, who support greater independence from Madrid, triumphed in parliamentary and presidential elections in
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      Lock icon US consults Asia on missile defence
      538 3 Asst Secretary of State visits PM Goh en route to China Wires THE United States has no set plan for a missile defence shield, said the visiting Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, James Kelly, yesterday, after talks with Singapore
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    • Eyeball FOCUS
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        Lock icon Make it harder to win a million
        822 4  -  Questions should be tougher in the selection process and cover a wider range of topics, say viewers By Karl Ho karl@sph.com.sg EVER since Who Wants To Be A Millionaire made its debut on Singapore television last month, the contestants have been hogging the
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      Lock icon IF YOU KNOW THE ANSWERS, GET ON THE SHOW, SAYS GAME CREATOR
      389 4 THE FLYING DUTCHMAN is good. But the American version shouldn’t have aired before the local one. So said Philip Livingstone, head of international productions with Celador Productions, which created Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, in a telephone
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      Lock icon GOLF AND SCHOOL, IN THAT ORDER
      227 5 LEE Wei An, 6, teed off before going for his first day in primary school. He loves golf so much, the excitement of starting school didn’t stop him from hitting a few balls first. Wei An started playing golf two years ago, after doing
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      Lock icon Tigers in training
      560 5  -  More children in Singapore teeing off for fun, and then some By Farrah Diba Tahar local@eyeball.com.sg FORGET swimming or piano lessons. Singaporean parents are packing their juniors off to the greens for golf lessons, some from as young as 3Vi years old. The sport is catching on
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    • Singapore
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        Lock icon 4D bets with your mobile phone
        446 6  -  Bat system, designed by three poly students, won’t be taken up by Singapore Pools By Wong Sher Maine sher@sph.com.sg WHIP out your mobile phone and key in those numbers. Not a telephone number, but lucky 4D numbers. Yes, it is technically possible to place
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        Lock icon Laptops stolen in schools
        224 6  -  NOT JUST FROM CARS Wong Sher Maine LAPTOPS are not just being stolen from cars, they’re disappearing from schools too. According to the latest edition of the Ngee Ann Polytechnic (NP) campus newspaper, the Tribune, about 13 laptops have been stolen since June last year. Most
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      • Article
        Lock icon COMMUNITY PROJECTS
        139 6 BETTING on 4D using a mobile phone may be an IT project that only benefits those who gamble. But other ideas that Temasek Polytechnic (TP) IT students came up with for their final-year projects, displayed during the IT Project Show 2001 yesterday, are really quite community-oriented. Here’s a
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    • Health
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        Lock icon Too many youths in East Asia unaware of Aids, says Unicef
        542 7 EPIDEMIC COULD GET AS BAD AS AFRICA’S Wires BEIJING Children in East Asia and the Pacific are woefully unprepared to deal with the rapidly growing threat of Aids, according to a survey by the UN Children’s Fund (Unicef) released
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      • Stork OPTIONS
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          Lock icon Cancer not linked to infertility treatments
          466 7 Studies show taking such hormones does not increase risk This weekly column features readers queries answered by fertility expert Dr Christopher Chen. DEAR Dr Chen: Have there been any studies linking infertility treatments, such as Clomid or Pergonal, to a higher incidence of reproductive
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    • The World
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        Lock icon Too early to tell in Philippine elections
        394 8 Final results not expected for weeks Wires MANILA With the voting over, the Philippine government and its opposition yesterday began predicting victory, although final results are not expected for weeks. Polling in the elections, billed as a litmus test of President Gloria Macapagal
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      • Article
        Lock icon Gus Dur asked army to step in
        354 8 IF THERE WAS POLITICAL DEADLOCK IN INDONESIA JAKARTA President Abdurrahman Wahid admitted that he recently urged the Indonesian military to impose martial law if he and Members of Parliament remained deadlocked in trying to end the political turmoil. But the military refused, the
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        Lock icon Calls for top-down FBI review
        378 10 ‘Cowboy culture causing blunders’ Reuters WASHINGTON United States Senate lawmakers are calling on President George W Bush to order “a top-to-bottom review” of the FBI, saying its failure to produce documents about the Oklahoma City bombing to convicted bomber Timothy McVeigh’s lawyers was due to
        – Reuters; AFP  -  378 words
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        Lock icon UK parties fall prey to cyber-opportunists
        258 10 VARIATIONS IN WEB ADDRESSES LEAD TO MISDIRECTED TRAFFIC LONDON All three main UK political parties have fallen foul of cy-ber-opportunists’ tactics to misdirect their web traffic, reported online news website Ananova.com. Newlabour.co.uk leads to the Conservative Party’s official site, while Tory-party.co.uk leads to the
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        Lock icon Redford snubs Bush govt’s condor invite
        217 10 WASHINGTON Robert Redford has rejected an invitation to release a rare condor with Gale Norton, the US Interior Secretary, because of the Bush Administration’s “abysmal record of capitulating to big businesses at the expense of the nation’s public health, public lands and wildlife”, British
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    • Technology
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        Lock icon Pay the price for upgrading
        645 11  -  Lusting after that shiny new cellphone? Be aware that long-term mobile plans are hard to break By Andrew Chin andrewc@sph.com.sg Termination options Sing Tel: After six months, new users can sign a second contract and get a handset at a special rate. The second contract
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        Lock icon Something to sniff at: scented M1 cards
        147 11 NEW PROMO CUSTOMERS using pre-paid cards can expect a sweet-smell-ing deal from Ml when they next top up. A recently launched top-up card offers users a fruity peach fragrance, and is the first of its kind to be introduced in Singapore. Top-up cards
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        Lock icon Store games all in one spot with RealArcade
        398 12 RealNetworks’ free release targets ‘casual’ gamers Reuters SEATTLE internet media software pioneer Real Networks yesterday launched Real Arcade, which lets users find, download and play video games. Real Arcade organises all the games installed on a PC in one listing on the
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        Lock icon Cisco to supply endless Internet addresses
        229 12 SAN FRANCISCO Heralding a world in which even a refrigerator will have multiple Internet addresses, Cisco Systems planned to unveil software yesterday for a next-generation Internet routing system, which is capable of providing a multitude of Internet addresses for each human on the planet.
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        Lock icon Turn music into videos on the Net
        418 12 INTERACTIVE ONLINE PROJECTS THREE new online projects hint at how a combination of audio, video and interactivity might inspire future audiences. One project lets users create music videos. Another turns a music video into a computer game. The third illuminates a classical piece
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    • Business
      • Business BUZZ
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          93 13 SHARES in Singapore finished lower in a broad selloff yesterday as cautious investors played safe and cut positions ahead of a key interest-rate meeting of the United States Federal Reserve today. The Straits Times Index finished 1.37 per cent, or 23.28 points, down at 1,680.07. The index is
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          Lock icon Chip market up
          62 13 SINGAPORE’S semiconductor market grew 31.7 per cent last year to reach $8 billion in revenues, technology research house Gartner Dataquest said yesterday. This year, the Republic’s semiconductor market is expected to decline by some 12.3 per cent to $7.1 billion. In the Asia-Pacific region, the semiconductor market
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          Lock icon SingTel confident
          94 13 YESTERDAY, Singapore Telecommunications (Sing Tel) said it didn’t see any obstacles to gaining US licences, allowing it to transfer confidential military information via satellite an issue that had cast a cloud over its multibillion dollar bid for Australian telecom giant Cable Wireless Optus. Sing Tel has been in
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          Lock icon Investment to rise
          50 13 CAPITAL investment in Singapore’s telecommunications sector is likely to exceed $3 billion over the next five or six years, Yeo Cheow Tong, Minister for Communications and Information Technology, said yesterday. He was speaking at the second Asia Pacific Telecommunications and Information Technology Forum and Exhibition in Jakarta.
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        Lock icon The chips are down
        59 13 The 26-storey office building of Taipei’s largest PC maker Acer Group sits gutted after a raging fire which broke out on Saturday at the Taipei Eastern Science Park. Lawmakers blamed fire fighters and inadequate equipment, while others complained that the sprinkler systems were not functioning properly.
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        Lock icon Risking the IPO scene
        490 13  -  Electronic firms Enzer and Unidux to list this week, despite weak market By Francis Kan francisk@sph.com.sg CALL it, if you will, optimism in action. Two companies both distributors of electronic components are in the market with initial public offers (IPOs) at a time when stocks are
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      • Article
        Lock icon No more rush for Net trademarks
        407 13 SOUP.COM, CARPARTS.COM, GROCERIES.COM NYT THE dotcom bust has more or less busted the rush for Internetrelated trademarks. After two years of dramatic increases in requests for trademarks with a “dotcom” tag or an “e-” prefix, the number of these applications plummeted last year at
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    • Mailbox
      • Article, Illustration
        Lock icon Hi, Dance? Wanna Patty with me?
        991 14  -  By Dave Barry SO I was at this party, and I wound up at a table where three attractive single women were complaining about- Surprise! men. Specifically, they were complaining about the pickup lines that had been used on them in a bar a
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      • Expat EYE
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          Lock icon The world through Irish eyes
          725 15  -  By Bhagyashree Garekar bhagya@sph.com.sg IT IS in curious ways that Singapore sometimes reveals a wisp of its still-nascent spirit to me. As the seasons crowded together on cloudy-sunny-rainy days, I attempted to touch it through a seemingly unlikely medium music: Through U 2, said to
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        • Article
          Lock icon CABBIE SELL
          80 15 SHOULD cabbies be allowed to tout? 46% No it gives Singapore a bad rep. 16% Okay, if they have approved arrangements with the hotel. 12% -They ’re only trying to make a living. 10% -No, it’s clearly a case of abuse. 8% -Well, at least they aren’t touting
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      50 2 Departments: Enquiries 730-5800 ey enews@sph.com.sg Local News 730-5461 local@eyeball.com.sg Foreign News 730-5807 world@eyeball.com.sg Business News 730-5864 biz@eyeball.com.sg Eye Sport 730-5832 sports@eyeball.com.sg Unwind 730-5844 leisure@eyeball.com.sg Tech 730-5815 tech@eyeball.com.sg Online Edition 730-5811 Archives 730-5726 stlib@cyberway.com.sg Subscription fax line 746-1925 Snail Mail Project Eyeball News Centre, Level 6 82, Genting Lane Singapore *****7
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
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      32 2 Qood morning! m i Showers with thunder in the late morning and early afternoon, mainly over northen, eastern and western Singapore. High: 33C 1 Low: 25C Tides: 3.03AM/2.4M 5.46PM/2.0M Met Service: http://www.gov.sg/metsin
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      18 3 Don’t oversell missile defence, says the man who invented the concept of nuclear deterrence, Thomas Schelling: http://www.msnbc. com/news/*****5.a5p
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      31 5 •What say you about young children taking up golf? All for it. If they like it, why not? It’s just more pressure on them. □Absolutely ridiculous. Let us know at http^/eyebalLaslal.com.sg
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      42 7 0 Send in your fertility queries to talk@eyeball.com.sgor mail to Project Eyeball, Stork Options News Centre, Level 6, 82 Genting Lane, Singapore *****7. Introducing The Boston® Multifocal RGP contact lens for NEAR and FAR visions. m m mwmm Visit your optometrist NOW.
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      21 8 To read the interview that Gus Dur gave Newsweek: http://www.msnbc. com/ news/*****2. asp#bodv CNN’s special report on Indonesia: http://asia.cnn. com/SPECIALS/2001/ indonesia
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      154 9 m sw M 0* vt Two $250 Japlo vouchers (Japlo is a leading brand of baby feeding accessories, apparel, toiletries and other baby products in United Kingdom.) AMS- .s -> s*?': i'/jm 1 m Just send us a non-returnable photograph of your baby (below 1 year old) and a birth
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      70 10 Follow events in the run-up to Britain’s general election next month at these sites. http:// news.bbc.co.uk/ vote2ool Day-by-day coverage of election campaigns. http://politics.guardian. co.uk An interview with Prime Minister Tony Blair. http://election.indepen dent.co.uk/comment Former top Labour spin-meister Peter Mandelson argues for vision and values over spin and presentation. http://www.thetimes.co. uk/article/0..2-*****0.00.
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  • Page 11 Miscellaneous
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      56 11 HELEN, SWEETHEART OF THE INTERNET so, vollg z.\, i see you're <3ROWfM<3 OUT YOUR HAIR. THE 7REMP MOW IS FOR A MOPERAT6LY CONSERVATIVE LOOK. LIFE, OF COURSE, BEING SIMPLY A SERIES OF TRENPS AMP MOMENTS, THAT, OF COURSE, BEING NONSENSE. IM GOING BACK TO MY OLP LENGTH. YEAH, MAYBE FOR
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  • EyeSport
    • Sport IN SHORT
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        Lock icon Roma on track
        86 16 AFP ROME Serie A leader AS Roma kept on course for the Scudetto by edging Atalanta 1-0 to stay clear with just four games to play. A second-half goal, headed in by Vincenzo Montella off a corner by Hidetoshi Nakata, ensured it stay five points ahead of
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        Lock icon Madrid stays ahead
        67 16 AP MADRID Real Madrid threw away two points after a 2-2 draw against Espanyol but has a six-point lead over its nearest challenger. The Madrid giants scored first through Luis Figo and Raul’s 20th goal of the season. But Espanyol pulled a goal back through Pablo Rotchen,
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        Lock icon Bayern needs draw
        39 16 AP MUNICH German colossal Bayern Munich only needs a draw against Hamburg SV next week to win its 17th Bundesliga title. Over the weekend, Bayern defeated Kaiserslautern 2-1 through goals from Carsten Jancker and Alex Zickler.
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      • Article
        Lock icon Aussie fourth team?
        59 16 Reuters SYDNEY Wallabies coach Rod Macqueen says the fact that two Australian sides have reached Saturday’s Super 12 semi-finals shows the World Cup holders should have a fourth team. Five of the Super 12 teams are from New Zealand. Two of those, Auckland Blues and Canterbury Crusaders,
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        Lock icon Petit to stay
        105 17 BARCELONABarcelona midfielder Emmanuel Petit looks set to disappoint a host of clubs hoping to get him to return to the Premiership, reported football36s.com. The ex-Arsenal star would give Barcelona priority, provided “I don’t have to live through another such terrible season”. He added that his friend, Patrick
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        Lock icon Zelic says no
        60 17 AFP SYDNEY-Australia will go to the Confederations Cup without star defender Ned Zelic. National coach Frank Farina admitted he had failed to persuade the player to return when he named his squad yesterday. Australia is in Group A with France, South Korea and Mexico. Zelic left in
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      • Article
        Lock icon Woods beaten
        68 17 AFP IRVING-Tiger Woods lost in the closing rounds of the Byron Nelson Classic in his comeback tournament after winning the Masters. Robert Damron beat Scott Verplank on the fourth playoff hole to claim a rare win. Woods initially took the clubhouse lead at 14-under 266, after he fired
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    • Article
      Lock icon BAR files complaint against Raikkonen
      281 16 FOR ALLEGED ILLEGAL OVERTAKING Reuters SPIELBERG (Austria) Kimi Raikkonen’s fourth-place finish in the Austrian Grand Prix was thrown into uncertainty after the British American Racing (BAR) team appealed against the result. A spokesman for the International Automobile Federation (FIA) said the results, with the exception
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      Lock icon Barrichello’s blood boiling
      448 16 He resents having to let Shuey pass him Wires SPIELBERG (Austria) It was just two points, but it could come at a very high price for Ferrari in its bid for a second straight driver’s championship. The chemistry of the team, which has never been very good
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      Lock icon Sports CLICKERS
      142 16 NBA: Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O’Neal are looking like the best one-two punch in the playoffs right now. And according to the 22-year-old Bryant, he won’t let his beloved Los Angeles Lakers be denied its destiny. Listen to what Bryant has to say on CBS Sportsline. (http://www.sportsline.com/) GOLF:
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      Lock icon Kobe the sorcerer
      565 17 Be anchors 119-113 beating of Sacramento to push Lakers to conference finals Wires SACRAMENTO Not to be outdone by Allen Iverson or Vince Carter, Kobe Bryant on Sunday became the NBA playoffs’ latest sorcerer. And when the final buzzer sounded, the 22-year-old clapped his hands, eased his
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      Lock icon Houllier: We are going places
      444 17 COACH TO KEEP TEAM TOGETHER, EYES MORE HONOURS ALTER winning two domestic trophies and a European one still within sight, Liverpool’s coach Gerard Houllier is determined to keep his team intact in the next couple of years. But it’s not with promises of more money.
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  • Unwind
    • Fashion
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        Lock icon Bulls, bears and burns
        894 18 USA Today Hemlines are no longer reliable as an indicator of how well your stocks are doing. Sideburns, argues BARBARA NACHMAN. should be the new barometer for Wall Street. PORGET that old saw about skirt lengths and stock prices. Maybe the two once rose and fell
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        Lock icon SEXY, UNTIDY OR JUST A SIGN OF LAZINESS?
        421 19 SINGAPORE’S celebrities and trendies on the appeal of a good pair of sideburns. “Well, I've had them for at least 12 years. I think it’s a reaction to the horrendous mullet hairstyle I had before. It’s two-inches long, and I still have
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        Lock icon Sean chic
        502 20 New Media Works artiste Sean Lee is a babe magnet. He talks to MM HUI LING (fun@ eyehall.com.sg) about retro fashion, facials and what he would wear to impress a hot date. IS eyes are doeful like a fawn’s; his hair is fashionably tousled. In fact, he reminds
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      • Fashion LOG
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          Lock icon Playboy goes to Europe
          137 20 BUNNIES in tow, Playboy founder Hugh Hefner launched a European tour that kicked off with a clothing deal with Fiorucci in Italy’s fashion capital. Italians can now buy metal-studded Playboy denim jackets or bottle openers with bunny ears at Fiorucci’s trendy Milan flagship store. Playboy Enterprises
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        • Article
          Lock icon Designer breaks
          43 20 UPTOWN trendies in the Big Apple will soon be able to have breakfast with Tiffany’s Elsa Peretti. The legendary jewellery designer and designer Stephen Burrows are opening a bed and breakfast on 125th Street. Two more locations are on the cards.
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          Lock icon Spiders in the dust
          81 20 AS IF front-row fashion worshippers didn’t have enough problems worrying about attacks from Peta, at Australian Fashion Week the wildlife itself is coming out of the woodwork. Sydney label Paablo Nevada chose a country theme for its show, sprinkling hay from the ceiling along with a
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          Lock icon Moss wants a baby
          69 20 MOTHERHOOD’S becoming fashionable again. Tabloids in Britain have been speculating about Kate Moss’ ambitions to become a mother. London’s Daily Mail quoted an ever-reliable unnamed “friend” as confiding that the tiny terror and her current beau, Dazed Confused editor Jefferson Hack, are bonking like rabbits in
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          Lock icon Pet Shop Boys shirts
          125 20 June Wan DESIGN company Rude has linked up with the Pet Shop Boys to design T-shirts for a play set to open in London next week. Closer To Heaven is a musical comedy written by Jonathan Harvey (of Gimme, Gimme, Gimme and Out In The Open
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        Lock icon COSTUME PARTY
        73 21 Depp has played few contemporary roles, preferring period or outlandish parts in films such as Sleepy Hollow (above) and Edward Scissorhands, all the while in flamboyant costumes. There are reports of a special prop department for Depp’s sunglasses in Blow, where he wears a wacky array of retro
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        Lock icon Dressing Depp
        563 21 LAT-WP It may be true that clothes make the man, hut bizarre clothes define actor Johnny Depp's persona. LOW CHIC is the fashion term The New York Post is using for Johnny Depp’s wardrobe in his new movie Blow. Designed, or assembled, by Mark Bridges, the costume designer
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        Lock icon Long live the mullet
        575 21 NYT EAT your hearts out, fashion plates: Your expensive hairdos don’t make it on the Internet. Sure, occasionally a designer or a male model pays homage to the king of hairstyles, but he’s just borrowing it from the real people. It’s called the ape drape. The
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        Lock icon Truth from the Mens Room
        595 22 She dates extremely polite men (lucky girl!) and scoffs at Donald Trump. CLARA CHOW (clara@sph.com.sg) gets on the line with Brook Lee, Miss Universe iggy and now the mistress of TV Work’s 13-parter, The Mens Room. What Is the one big thing men should know
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        Lock icon Cellulite faces the cut
        350 22  -  DESPAIRING over cellulite? Well, help could be at hand. The technology that’s been a saviour for women with hair and pigmentation problems, Intense Pulse Light (IPL), could help bust cellulite too. Discovered by Italian cosmetic laser giant Laser.com, the technique is said to be the first
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    • Gender
      • Venus & MARS
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          Lock icon Vanity and the male species
          758 23 AP So you thought that, unlike women, men seldom fret over achieving physical perfection. Well, you thought wrong, says SUSAN SWARTC. THE sunny weather may be begging for a bit of body baring, but there are lawnmower gods out there hoping for the sun to
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      • Gender BENDERS
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          Lock icon Snip a hop away
          104 23 FRENCH men now have away of circumventing an archaic, 200-year-old law which bans them from getting a vasectomy. They can undergo the procedure by going on a vasectomy tour in England. This service is offered by family planning charity Marie Stopes International. For about $5OO, the
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        • Article
          Lock icon Pious prudes
          67 23 COULD it be divine intervention? Apparently, a Western Australia study has revealed that medical and nursing students who listen to sermons and attend church regularly are likely to develop negative attitudes towards sex. Ditto with virgins, those leaning right politically, and those from less well-off families. Religious women
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          Lock icon Flat feet at risk
          112 23 KH Wong IF YOU’RE a flat footer, you probably know that your fallen arches make you more prone to joint and lower back pain. But more bad news is in store. New research as reported in Men’s Health has shown that flat feet or even just
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      327 24 Chat Mouse Idiot meter You can be sure someone is an idiot when he: Spends 20 minutes looking at an orange juice box because it says “Concentrate”. Puts lipstick on his forehead because he wants to make up his mind. Gets stabbed in a shoot-out. Sends a fax with a
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      63 24 BRITISH TV star Joanna Taylor (above) of Hollyoaks fame stole the show at the British Academy Television Awards (Bafta) ceremony in London’s Grosvenor House hotel on Sunday by appearing in a plunging gown held in place by toupee tape. The 22-year-old donned an eye-catching Jenny Packham dress with
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      125 24 GERI HALLIWELL (right) will be adding spice to Britain’s Labour Party campaign for the elections next month. In a political advertisement aired yesterday, the music star was featured making and serving tea to pensioners, reports abcnews.com. A press release also quoted her as saying that
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      118 24 DENNIS RODMAN threw a grand party to celebrate his 40th birthday over the weekend but police shut it down mid-way through. According to nandotimes.com, Rodman made a dramatic entrance in a chopper that circled a few times above his house before illegally landing at Newport
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      98 24 MARILYN MANSON (right) lashed out at religious protesters who are against him performing at the Ozzfest in Denver on June 21. He has apparently been accused of influencing the teenagers who turned killers at Columbine High School near Denver. Church communities in the area recently
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        100 24 RE NARAYAN, 94, author of the popular Malgudi novels, passed away on Sunday. He had been hospitalised two weeks ago in Chennai, following heart and lung trouble. The Chennaiborn novelist, wrote his first novel Swami And Friends set in the imaginary South Indian town of Malgudi in 1935.
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