Project Eyeball, 12 June 2001

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    11 1 projecteyeball. eyeball-asial-com-sg Mita (p) 105/03/2001 Tuesday, June 12, 2001 80 CENTS
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      430 1 BITCHING ABOUT DOGS Dave Barry becomes a dog show judge and sniffs out the... See Page 14 rj BARING IT IN A BIKINI Older women here in Singapore are opting for the two piece. See Pages 18-19 TAKE A CLOSER LOOK Ven Subramanian thinks Singaporeans should go beyond seeing Nepal
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  • NEWS & VIEWS
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      Lock icon QUICKIE
      117 2 ONE in 12 British women are willing to lose a limb in return for a perfect body, according to a survey by Woman’s Own magazine. Other things they’re willing to do include saying “No” to chocolate forever (61 per cent), giving up all their life savings (30 per cent)
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      Lock icon Slimmer menu for The Big Buffet
      424 2  -  Changes include shorter shew, new time and faces BY DAWN WONG fun@eyeball.com.sg IT’S MESSY. It’s too long. There are too many items in each episode. And the presenting’s rough. The Big Buffet, MediaWorks’ flagship English variety programme, has attracted its share of criticism, since
      Desmond Wong  -  424 words
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      Lock icon HEW STAR
      143 2 CELEST CHONG is the latest celebrity to join MediaWorks’ Chinese entertainment channel Channel U. The model and sometime-actress, who would admit only to being “twenty-something”, signed on Wednesday. Channel U’s chief operating officer, Man Shu Sum, 49, said Chong would star not only in local productions, but regional
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    • Eyeball NEWS
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        Lock icon SCV poor picture quality resolved
        74 2 TRANSMISSION of the affected channels including the Discovery Channel and Star Movies on cable TV provided by Singapore Cable Vision (SCV) has been rectified. Over the past few days, SCV subscribers had been frustrated by jerky pictures and the like, which SCV said were caused
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      • Article
        Lock icon Women outnumber men in Singapore
        119 2 WOMEN now outnumber men in Singapore and the population is ageing fast as fertility levels < Ji o r 'j j 1 j <i i l jl' l. i u decrease, according to the official census report released by the Department of Statistics. Singapore’s population
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        Lock icon National survey on health status
        100 2 IF THERE’S a stranger at your door requesting to test your eyesight, don’t panic. The Health Ministry is conducting a national survey on Singaporeans’ general health and lifestyle practices. Interviewers will visit 10,000 randomly selected households till December. In collaboration with the A E 1.
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      • Article
        Lock icon ‘No need for aircraft carrier’
        124 2 SINGAPORE’S Air Force has no real need for an aircraft carrier, said David Lim, Minister of State for Defence and Information and the Arts. The Minister, also chairman for the Advisory Council on Community Relations in Defence (Accord), was responding to queries from the Accord
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      • Article
        Lock icon Court hearing for SLA eviction notice
        116 2 THE dispute between the Tampines fish farmers and the Singapore Land Authority (SLA) looks set for conclusion. A court hearing, on the eviction notice that SLA had issued to the farmers, is scheduled for tomorrow. Of the 18 farmers on tenancy agreements who were
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      268 3 ROME Silvio Berlusconi took the oath of office as Prime Minister of Italy’s 59th government since 1945 and prepared for his first foray on the international stage at the Nato and European Union summits this week. [Houston" The death toll from the flooding caused by the remnants of
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      Lock icon No sex for youth before marriage
      294 3  -  Texas judge slaps this on sex offender SALON TEXAS A district judge in Texas, who made a name for himself last month after ordering registered sex offenders to identify themselves, has hit the headlines again. This time, District Judge J Manuel Banales ruled that
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      Lock icon Sunny side up
      37 3 Solar-powered cars from some of the 15 teams from Japan, Taiwan and Malaysia competing against each other during yesterday’s 1,000-km race for the first World Solar Car Championship at the Sepang International Circuit. AP
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      Lock icon Baldness ‘cure’ has Netizens buzzing
      230 3 LONDON There is feverish excitement on the Internet over a revolutionary new treatment for baldness. Early trials of the drug dutasteride have shown dramatic success in restoring hair on bald men, reported the Observer on Sunday. Top baldness researcher Dr Marty Sawaya has hailed the
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    • Eyeball FOCUS
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        Lock icon Where’s the forum?
        1280 4  -  PAP website launched without typical website function the ability to post comments BY SUE-ANN CHIA sueann@sph.com.sg IT HAS all the bells and whistles of other websites audio clips, flash animation and picture galleries but yet there’s just something missing from the new People’s Action Party (PAP) website.
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      Lock icon Ransom paid, hubby safe, questions raised
      548 5  -  Does paying off Philippine kidnappers make Singaporeans vulnerable? BY WONG SHER MAINE sher@sph.com.sg ANOTHER kidnapping and another quiet ransom payment later, Singaporeans visiting the Philippines can’t be blamed for feeling wary that they could be next. After all, families of kidnapped Singaporeans are meekly
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    • Singapore
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        Lock icon Asiaweek’s figures ‘ring hollow’
        585 6  -  Claim of high cost of mobile calls in S’pore disputed BY EUGENE WEE eugene-w@sph.com.sg A MOBILE phone call in Singapore costs on the average US$O.3l (550.55 cents) a minute, making it the most expensive call anywhere in Asia. At least that’s what Hong Kongbased current affairs
        Bong Fortin  -  585 words
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        Lock icon Software to block SMS is here, but...
        499 6  -  S.M.S. SPAMMING BY LIM PUAY LENG puayleng@sph.com.sg SINGAPORE company Buzzcity.com has come up with a software that will allow you to block unwanted SMS messages on your mobile phone. With SMS-Scan, subscribing telco customers can block phone numbers by keying them in a
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      • Article
        Lock icon S.M.S SPAM IS PRICEY
        71 6 Don’t dismiss SMS-Scan as just another software package the cost of receiving Short Messaging Service (SMS) spam can be tremendous. A report released by a European Commission study in February said: “Internet subscribers worldwide are unwittingly paying an estimated 10 billion euros a year (5516.3 billion)
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    • Health
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        Lock icon Eating liquorice can lead to early birth
        349 7 Sweets may stimulate hormones which induce labour, finds study HELSINKI It’s been said that pregnancy can play havoc on what a woman craves to eat. But be warned: Eating liquorice could mean an earlier birth, reports the BBC Online. New research has found
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      • Stork OPTIONS
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          Lock icon Varicocele surgery is safe
          430 7 DEAR Dr Chen: We have been trying to conceive for the past three years, but to no avail. Recently, my husband went through a semen analysis and found out that the varicocele affected his fertility. The doctor strongly recommended that my husband undergo a minor surgery
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      • Article
        Lock icon Kids with pets less allergic
        274 7 ONE LINE CAPS AP SAN FRANCISCO Contrary to many parents’ instinct, infants who grow up with cats or dogs may be less likely to suffer from allergies and asthma later in life, suggests preliminary research. “Traditionally, most people have thought that increased exposure to these
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    • The World
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        Lock icon Arroyo gives in to Abu Sayyaf
        498 8 Rebels seize 15 more hostages as President agrees to let Malaysian negotiators In Wires MANILA At the height of the Jeffrey Schilling hostage drama earlier this year, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo had offered the Abu Sayyaf rebels the “peace of the graveyard”. But yesterday,
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        Lock icon Gus Dur plans Cabinet reshuffle
        623 8 CHAPPY WITH ECONOMIC TEAM JAKARTA President Abdurrahman Wahid is fighting off an imminent impeachment with another round of fire-and-hire. This time it is the turn of his economic team, although the capital is abuzz with whispers of a military leadership reshuffle as well. There were
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        Lock icon Top legal officer made me drop case: judge
        265 8 AFP KUALA LUMPUR Another disclosure came from the Malaysian judge who made waves last week when he said he had been pressured to drop a politically-sensitive case. He revealed yesterday that the order came from a then top officer in the judiciary.
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        Lock icon McVeigh dies quietly, with eyes open
        449 9 LAST MEAL: TWO TUBS OF ICE CREAM Wires TERRE HAUTE (Indiana) The government that Timothy McVeigh so despised executed him by lethal injection yesterday, taking his life in exchange for the 168 lives lost when he blew up the Oklahoma City federal building six
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        Lock icon Mobile phone shields coming
        555 9 Nokia, Ericsson and Motorola working on radiation reducers, but still say users not at risk LONDON The top three mobilephone makers are hedging their bets on the controversial handset radiation issue by patenting devices to reduce the risk of brain tumours among users, without accepting claims
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        Lock icon Did pork cudets kill Mozart?
        164 10 AP CHICAGO Forget rheumatic fever, kidney stones, heart disease and even poisoning. What may have really killed Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart were pork cutlets. The latest theory about the composer’s untimely death on Dec 5,1791, at age 35 in Vienna suggests the culprit was trichinosis. The
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        Lock icon Biotech food spreads
        347 10 Trend almost Irreversible NYT CHICAGO It’s becoming almost impossible for consumers to avoid genetically modified (GM) food, given the near irreversible trend of biotechnology in the world’s food supply. More than 100 million acres of the world’s most fertile farmland were planted with GM crops last year,
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    • Technology
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        Lock icon Ulala hits phones in all her 3D glory
        143 11 Wires SAN FRANCISCO Her name is Ulala. She sashays as she walks, her tiny waist pivoting, her arms swinging like a runway model’s. She lives in the 16-bit colour screen of J-Phone’s new J-SHO7 mobile phone. Ulala is the animated and pixel-perfect
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        Lock icon Schools use software to catch cheats
        366 11 High-tech spying tools to prevent plagiarism USA Today LOS ANGELES Schools across America are using the summer vacation to deploy a new breed of high-tech countermeasures to catch and prevent campus cheating. When students get back to schools such as Georgetown University, UCLA, Wake
        – USA Today  -  366 words
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        Lock icon Smart Tags feature in Windows XP may hurt websites
        443 11 LOSING CUSTOMERS AP SEATTLE The newest version of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer Web browser will be able to direct surfers to other sites without the permission or even the knowledge of the page’s owner. And US Internet analysts are al-. ready saying
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    • Business
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        Lock icon Sony breaks into Internet banking
        58 13 Just as it wooed music fans with the Walkman and wowed video-gamers with the Play Station, Sony Corp aims to lure Japanese depositors with its cutting-edge online banking services. Sony Bank president Shigeru Ishii kicked off the operations with a smile at an opening ceremony
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      • Article
        Lock icon Aiwa Singapore lays off 250
        315 13  -  Its sales staff may be next BY NUCHOLAS YONG nicyong@sph.coms.g FOR the R&D staff of Aiwa Singapore, the music has just stopped. The Japanese audio-equipment maker said yesterday that it was laying off 249 people at its research and development as well as international procurement
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      • Business BUZZ
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          Lock icon STI down
          59 13 THE Singapore stock exchange lost 1.3 per cent yesterday following last week’s gains and losses on Wall Street, dealers said. The benchmark Straits Times Index fell 21.5 points to close the day at 1,685.98. Mainboard-listed Asia Pacific Breweries was one of the biggest gainers in absolute terms, closing
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          Lock icon Dollar drops
          79 13 THE Singapore dollar retreated to 1.8112 from 1.8085 against the US dollar as concerns over a looming recession in Japan pushed the yen lower. The yen is believed to carry substantial weight in Singapore’s trade-weighted basket of currencies because exports to Japan account for around 12.5 per cent
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        Lock icon What freeze? These guys are still hiring
        588 13  -  ASSET-MANAGEMENT INDUSTRY GROWING BY NICHOLAS YONG nicyong@sph.com.sg AT A time when other industries are downsizing, asset-management companies seem to be on recruitment mode. Said a manager from a foreign asset-management company, who declined to be named: “Fund houses are still recruiting across the
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    • Mailbox
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        Lock icon I smell a winner
        1005 14  -  BY DAVE BARRY Miami Herald RECENTLY, it was my great honour to serve as a judge in the Key West Kritter Patrol Dog Show, which is considered one of the most prestigious dog shows held in the entire Key West area on that particular weekend. This
        – Miami Herald; Mik Zarzuel  -  1,005 words
      • Expat EYE
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          Lock icon The pall over Nepal
          679 15  -  BY VEN SUBRAMANIAN venkat@sph.com.sg IT’S not every day that a tiny mountain kingdom like Nepal, makes headlines. In the past week, though, the country has been in the spotlight because of the massacre of almost its entire royal family. Most Singaporeans that I’ve spoken to think
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      • Article
        Lock icon US$3b tobacco suit is just the beginning
        257 15 This smoker got US$3 billion (June 8) RICHARD BOEKEN was awarded US$3 billion (555.46 billion) the highest sum ever for an individual in a suit against a cigarette company last Wednesday. Boeken, 56, a securities and oil broker, had accused Philip Morris of
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      25 2 (food morning! u Showers with thunder in the late morning and afternoon, affecting many areas High: 32C1 Low: 25C Tides: 2.07AM/2.7M 4.05PM/2.2M Met Service: http://www.gov.sg/metsin
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      24 10 How Singapore is dealing with GM food, and Singapore’s Genetic Modification Advisory Committee has some rules on the use of GM products: http://www.gmac. gov-sg
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  • EyeSport
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      Lock icon POWER RANKINGS
      396 16 Formula One Canada was a race of attrition with only nine cars finishing the race. Eye Sport ranks those with staying power, and those without. It’s too early to start talking about a turnaround, but Jean Alesi is on a roll for these guys, who couldn’t do a
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      Lock icon ‘I’m not racing for Minardi’
      482 16  -  Yoong, team deny claim of Malaysia’s Ministry of Sports BY ADAM HASHIDY hashidy@sph.com.sg MALAYSIA’S Alexander Yoong isn’t going to be scooting around Grand Prix circuits with the likes of Michael Schumacher and David Coulthard anytime soon. And he certainly won’t be steering a European Minardi
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      Lock icon Fuel put Ralf on podium
      263 16 Wires THE Canadian Grand Prix came down to fuel consumption. Not to take anything away from Ralf Schumacher’s brilliant drive in Montreal, but the BMW Williams’ superior fuel consumption meant that he could stay out longer while big brother Michael went for his pit stop,
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    • Article, Illustration
      Lock icon Iverson standing in Lakers’ way
      500 17  -  LA, 76ers slugging out great Finals BY PAUL WESTPHAL LAT-WP LOS ANGELES Despite being subjected to many horrible calls by the officials, Kobe Bryant commercials and too many talking heads, Game Three of the NBA Finals was still fantastic for basketball lovers. The Los Angeles
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    • Article
      Lock icon HORRY-FYING TIME FOR THE SIXERS
      237 17 AFP PHILADELPHIA Kobe Bryant scored 32 points and Robert Horry scored seven crucial ones in the final 47 seconds to lead the Los Angeles Lakers past Philadelphia 96-91 here yesterday in Game Three of the NBA Finals. Former US President Bill Clinton was among more
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      Lock icon Merci beaucoup, says Kuerten
      366 17 OPEN WINNER THANKS CROWD IN FRENCH AFP PARIS Winning the French Open a few times was enough to turn Gustavo Kuerten into a Francophile. As the Brazilian claimed his third trophy at Roland Garros on Sunday, he showed that he’d been brushing up on his French
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  • Unwind
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      Lock icon 40? 50? Bikinis? No problem
      779 18 Being in your 40s or older and into bikinis? Its not such a rarity anymore here in Singapore, reports JUNE! WAN (junewan@sph.com.sg). OTSY BITSY they may be. But that hasn’t stopped older Singaporean women from taking to the water in bikinis or two-piece swimsuits. Florence
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    • Fashion
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        Lock icon BUST BUTS
        334 19 June Wan TRADITIONAL thought gives slim, svelte nymphets such as Ase Wong whose bikini turn in Tiger Beer’s What Time Is It? commercials turned more than the heads of the boys in the ad. But women 40 and older are starting to reach out for a piece of
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        Lock icon More women seek the world -in two pieces
        721 19 NYT LEESA LEVERETTE, an educational tester from savannah, Georgia, does not easily fit the profile of someone who would be moved to push a credit card across a counter in exchange for a neon-peach string bikini. She’s 40, a mother of a
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      • Personal STYLE
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          Lock icon Pop tradition
          1168 20 Bond girls enjoy a tradition of being sexy, alluring and fashionable. These female classical string players bear no relation to Agent ooy, but that hasnt kept them from living the adventurous life in style. JUNE WAN (junewan@sph.com.sg) talks to two members of the mesmerising quartet. T USED to
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      • Article, Illustration
        Lock icon Restoring vogue
        586 21 AP Not seen in New York since the days of Andy Warhol and Studio 54, the trendy Fiorucci is reopen ing its doors to a young group of shoppers hunting down the coolest looks. JULIA CHAPLIN reports. ACKIE O, Cher and J Elizabeth Taylor shopped there; Andy Warhol
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      • Fashion LOG
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          Lock icon Keep time for dad
          92 21 IT’S still not too late to shop for that Father’s Day gift. Cortina Watch’s new one-stop boutique at Millenia Walk has a range of designer time-pieces and accessories housed in its 12 boutiques. Yes, 12 boutiques in one, ensuring privacy and range. Good-looking pieces include the
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          Lock icon Club 21 on sale
          102 21 GIVEN up on the chic collections of Club 21 because you think you can’t afford them? Don’t! The group’s regular end-of-season knockoff sale is now on at Forum Galleria, with slashed prices starting from $lOO. While the Collections sale with offerings from Costume National, Paul Smith
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          Lock icon La Perla’s touch of glass
          76 21 LA PERLA, maker of gorgeous swimwear and sexy intimates, has combined organic and geometrical shapes to create stylish and sinuous lines for its debut 2001 sunglasses collection. The jewel-tinted lenses with graduated colours and a slight mirror effect will up that movie star glamour mystique
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          Lock icon Lavender station
          54 21 June Wan FANS of the scent and colour lavender can now rejoice. The Scent Shop’s creators have opened Lavender at the Raffles City basement to offer yes, you guessed it lavender aromatherapy, bodycare and toiletry products. Other popular items are the colourful face/eye/foot travel gel packs from $13.90
          – June Wan  -  54 words
    • Gender BENDERS
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        Lock icon Fat chance
        99 22 IS OBESITY contagious? If a bunch of researchers from the University of Wisconsin are to be believed, apparently so. In a study they conducted, the results suggested that a virus might just be responsible for those spare tyres. When the team injected chickens with a human virus from
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        Lock icon Nutty solution
        123 22 YOU are dazed and confused. You have more alter egos than Jim Carrey, Clark Kent and all the superheroes from DC Comics put together. Now, before you hire a bomoh to chase these multiple personalities from your body, consider the humble betel nut. Chewing on betel nuts, it
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        Lock icon Nookie before footie
        99 22 KH Wong NO SEX before the big game? That’s a crock of baloney, according to Emmanuele Jannini, who conducted a study at the University of L’Aquila in Italy. The good researcher found out that aggression levels surged to a peak when men spent more time in the
        – KH Wong  -  99 words
    • Gender
      • Venus & MARS
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          Lock icon Scrap the tiara
          735 22 Lat Who wants to be a fairy-tale princess waiting to be rescued, says SUSAN CAMPBELL, when you can be a warrior princess and rescue yourself. HEN I was a girl, Wthe toy I begged for on shopping trips was a princess kit. It had a tiara, a
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    • Arts Fest
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        Lock icon FESTIVAL PROFILES
        440 23  -  BY TAN DAWN WEI dawntan@sph.com.sg Who: Contemporary Korean dancer-choreographer Sen Hea Ha collaborates with a family of traditional Indonesian court dancers Mangkunegaran Kraton -for a multi-dimensional, multi-cultural, multi-generational dance performance, Labyrinth. The performance here is touted as the Asian premiere, although it is being staged for the first
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        Lock icon Taking a breather
        573 23 Known for its slick performances, local group Theatre OX will be stopping here in the middle of its Italy-Moscow-Austria tour. Founder Ang Qey Pin tells CLARA CHOW (clarac@sph.com.sg) about One Breath Left, the work-in-progress it’ll be staging at Sculpture Square. NG GEY PIN is A speaking to
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      47 23 Read our review of last night’s opening of Les Deux Mondes’ Leitmotiv, a musical drama about the atrocities of war. Log on to http://eyeball.asial.com.sg One Breath Left will be on from June 15 to 18, at 8 pm, Sculpture Square. Tickets at $26 from Sistic (348 5555).
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    • Chat & Mouse
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        Lock icon A horse, of course
        161 24 A horse of course A MAN was sitting quietly reading his newspaper one morning, peacefully enjoying himself, when his wife sneaked up behind him and clobbered him on the back of his head with a huge cast-iron frying pan. “What was that for?” the man screamed in pain. “What is
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        Lock icon Time for a confession
        131 24 FOUR Catholic mothers got together over coffee and tried to impress each other over the importance of their sons. Said the first one: “My son is a priest. Whenever he walks into a room, people say: ‘Father.’ Said the second: “Nice. But my son’s a bishop.
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      Lock icon Madonna back on stage
      394 24 MADONNA traded her cowgirl look for a kilt as she kicked off her world tour in Spain. The Material Mum, who plays in London next month, mixed the tartan with a sleeveless black top for a spectacular debut in Barcelona. Her new image could be a
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      Lock icon A*mei’s also coming back — to Beijing
      78 24 A*mei’s also coming back to Beijing CHANG HUd-MEI, the Taiwan pop star banned from performing on the mainland since she sang at President Chen Shni-bian’s inauguration party, will retake centre stage in Beijing in August. Chang, (right) popularly known as A*mei, has been enlisted to sing at a concert before
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