The New Paper, 3 October 1988

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  • 17 1 the new paper MONDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1988 MCI (P) 179/4/88 50 CENTS the 4/ new* paper M>er
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    • 203 1 SOF EGGSHELLS For 21 v 545 athletes from 161 nations, it's time to go home. Not a moment too soon, writes Ken Jalleh Jr. Another day of goodwill and something would have blown. Page 13 4AONCING BACK Stripped of her Miss America title for nude poses in Playboy, Vanessa Williams
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  • 44 1 Moving: Athletes and performers fill the floor of the Olympic stadium for closing ceremony. It's a lovely end to Games packed with drama. See pages 16 to 26 for photo highlights of the ups and downs in Seoul. Picture/ AFP
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 662 2  -  By Irene Hoe AT least six MPs who don't need to set up town councils till 1990 or 1991 are getting an early start on their planning. But none of the dozen or so MPs approached by The New Paper plans to take over running HDB
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    • 141 2 A CAR, a pick-up and a van crashed head to tail at a Bedok junction early this morning. No one was seriously injured in the accident which happened at the junction of Bedok North Road and Bedok North Avenue 1, said police. The car,
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    • 450 2  -  By Ng Wan Ching TWO 25-year-old men were found dying of stab wounds about three hours apart and in different sections of the city yesterday. In the first incident, a bloody trail led police to Mr J.K. Fong, a driver, dying of
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    • 181 2 AN UNARMED security guard chased a rape and robbery suspect armed with a gun and brought the man to the pavement with a rugby tackle. Only then did he realise the weapon was a toy. Mr Mohd Irman bin Mohd Ali, 18, chased the
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    • 432 3 When at Orchard Road, many Singaporeans do as the Romans do. They throw coins into the Trevi Fountain or rather, a styrofoam replica, and visit the plywood Coliseum. I s 1 ***** threw a coin into the fountain. Others even had their pictures taken
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    • 129 3 THEY are all dead now, the whole family. And the woman who set herself on fire because she suspected her husband of having an affair has also died. Both, the sole survivor of the Bukit Batok gas explosion and the woman, died yesterday. Little
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    • 265 3 CAST a net into a monsoon drain and you never know what's going to turn up. Last week it was fierce and toothy piranha fish. Now it's 142 bullets likely left over from the Fall of Singapore in 1942. The
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 25 2 THE WEATHER THE weather outlook today for Singapore from noon to midnight: Fair. Maximum temperature: 31 degrees. Sunset today: 6.56 pm. Sunrise tomorrow: 6.50 am.
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 340 4  -  By Thusitha de Silva THE junk which sank off Sentosa on Thursday night is making another trip today. This one starts from the bottom of the sea. Attempts are being made to haul it up to the surface. A salvaging company was scheduled
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    • 171 4 THESE words appear in our stories today. The following notes will help in case you need to check their meanings. Moated: Something that is bloated is bigger than usual because it has too much liquid or gas in it. caffeinated: Caffeinated coffee contains caffeine which is a chemical substance
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    • 92 4 HAWKERS at the food centre of Blk 254 in Jurong East used planks to make bridges for their customers because of a 10 cm flood there over the weekend. The Chinese-language daily newspaper Lianhe Wanbao reported that there has been a week-long problem of wa-ter-clogging. About
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    • 305 4  -  By Karen Goh AN undergrad got a Seiko watch and $1,000 reward for her honesty but she couldn't have done it without her mum. Joanne Lim, 19, was on her way to the National University of Singapore at about 9.40 am when she spotted
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    • 279 5  -  By Angeline Song IT'S a new and better life for the tortoises at the Phor Kark See Temple. Not long ago, home for the little animals was two crowded, dirty and disease-ridden ponds on the temple grounds. Not surprisingly, many died of disease. Following
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    • Article, Illustration
      435 6  -  Saturday sales boom downtown By Lim Phay-ling LAST Saturday was "the best Saturday ever" for Esprit, the Orchard Road store, which saw queues of people visiting the shop for its sale. For the other three department stores also on sale, the day was unusually good although they
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    • 392 6 THE Malay-Muslim community must be united in all self-help efforts, says Dr Ahmad Mattar, the Minister-in-charge of Muslim Affairs. This would show that the Malays could be self-reliant and did not just depend on others. He said in yesterday's Berita Minggu, the Malay-language
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    • 131 6 SOME days smokers look everywhere for an ashtray and can't find one. At Marine Drive, one cause of this problem was Tan Hiong Eng. Tan, 31, admitted in court on Friday that he vandalised HDB property by stealing cylindrical ashtrays that were on top of dustbins from
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    • 330 7  -  By Geneieve Kwek I T was the first Pitch-A-Tent Contest for schools yesterday, but those who pitched their voices highest stole the show. And the winning cheer teams' costumes were as loud as their voices. That's because they were made of safety pins, coconut shells, pom
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    • 228 7  -  By Harjinder Kaur THE HDB also knows how to party. For the fourth year, area offices showed they could organise a residents' party as well as handle bills, summons and complaints about lifts and garbage. Yesterday, was HDB Area Office Day in
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 260 9 Wire services. POLITICAL parties will compete in the Nov 16 elections in Pakistan. One hour after the country's highest court ruled that the elections would be par-ty-based, the Justice Minister Mr Wasim Sajjad, made the announcement and said the election commission would have increased powers
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    • 206 9 Wire services. THE CURFEW in Karachi, Pakistan, has been extended to more areas because violence between rival ethnic communities is growing. Nearly 300 have been killed in Karachi and in Hyderabad, 160 km to the north, hospital sources said. Masked men in cars continued
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    • MAILBOX: Letters to the Editor
      • 365 9 SIR, As a teacher from the UK, I listened with great interest while on a recent holiday in Singapore to your Prime Minister's televised speech on education. I was also privileged to make an informal visit to one of your Junior Colleges. I was more
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      • 194 9 Child or adult, safety comes first PSA SIR, I refer to the article on the wa-ter-taxis (Sept 20). One boatman was reported to have said that the PSA imposes a limit of 12 passengers per trip for his boat. The number of passengers a harbour craft can carry is governed
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      • 233 9 SIR WE WISH to reply to Mr Alfonso Chan's comment "We can do better than this" in your paper on 12th Sept, 1988. We are glad to have helped to keep* squash alive and well, as noticed by Mr Chan during the recent Singapore Open
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    • 333 10 Wire services. THE Soviet Union plans to revise laws that have been used for decades to crush political dissent and religious practices, says a senior US official. Mr Richard Schifter said the Kremlin plans to repeal a law which makes it a crime to "defame"
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    • 44 10 Starry encounter: Soviet First Lady Raisa Gorbachev (left) shares the spotlight with US singer Mary d'Arcy at a theatre in Moscow. Mrs Gorbachev was attending the premiere of a US-Soviet music-and-dance tribute to jazz star Duke Ellington. Picture/ Afp
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    • 59 10 Picture/r To safety: Trust the buffalo to take over where cars fear to tread. Floods in Punjab's Ferozepur town have turned streets into canals making it impossible for traffic to pass. Those made homeless by the lashing rains turn to buffalo carts such as this one
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    • 227 10 Wire services. DISCOVERY'S space crew has dedicated its voyage through the heavens to the seven astronauts of the fallen Challenger. The US shuttle Challenger exploded just minutes after lift-off nearly three years ago. All on board died in history's worst space disaster. Discovery
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    • 253 10 Wire services. FORMER Deputy Premier Musa Hitam has quit the government benches in the Malaysian Parliament to become an independent MP. Observers say the move marks his final break with Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad. Datuk Musa said yesterday in Kota Tinggi, Johor, that he
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  • WORLDTODAY/ STOCKS
    • 277 11 Wire services. TRADE ministers from 28 developed and developing countries still could not reach agreement on global agriculture trade and matters relating to copyright and piracy. Delegates said differences "remained unresolved" at the three-day informal conference to review the General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs (Gatt)
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    • 174 11 Wire services. INDIAN farmers protesting against low prices for their crops have filed more than 200,000 bankruptcy petitions to try to stop banks recovering their loans. They carried the petitions in a truck to a local magistrate to register their anger at what they described
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    • 51 11 Rubble: i 4 cinema in Besancon, France, lies in ruins the price of giving in to a temptation. The cinema had continued showing the controversial movie, The Last Temptation of Christ, despite bomb threats. Nobody was inside the theatre when a time bomb exploded last night. Picture/
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    • 239 11 Wire services. JAPAN'S construction companies are racing to go underground. The idea is to hit below the ground before the government restricts property rights to certain depths. Under current legislation, property rights extend as high and as deep as land can be used. Analysts said
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    • 127 11 Wire services. HUNGARY has given the green light to its first legally authorised video sex cassette. The "Teaching Sex" cassette will cost $82, and more than 4,000 copies are on the market. Mr Mihaly Szegoe, who heads the "Sex ABC" producing firm, said in an
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    • 62 11 riciure/ r Balancing act: It's a tough job but someone has to do it. To win this race, a contestant has to run for 4 km while balancing a tray with two glasses and a bottle. These runners were among 350 waiters and waitresses who took part
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    • 173 11 Wire services. RIDING high on his nearly 90 per cent win in Britain's opposition Labour Party balloting, Mr Neil Kinnock vowed to gain power in the next general election. Aides said the walloping given the vocal left wing on the opening day of the party's annual conference
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    • 62 11 Reuter. SHARE prices opened mixed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange today after Saturday's steep declines. The Nikkei index edged up 29.87 points, or 0.11 per cent, to 27,730.00 in the first 10 minutes of trade. Securities house, communications, non-life insurance, rubber, pharmaceutical, real estate and mining shares rose.
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  • 447 12 FOODNOTES A I BALANCED diet is important in fighting pre-menstru-al syndrome (PMS) and period pains. These pains are often dismissed as all-in-the-mind pseudo-diseases of "the weaker sex". PMS symptoms include cramps, headaches, irritability and depression. Period pains take the form of bloated tummies, fatigue and
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  • 269 12  -  TRYTHIS By Lim Swee Hong FIBRE Trim Fruit Tabs seem to work best with will power. An effervescent fibre tablet, when dissolved in a glass of cold water and drunk before a meal, is supposed to give you a "full" feeling and make
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  • 364 13  -  THE NEW PAPER SPECIAL PULLOUT SEOUL BEAT Ken Jalleh Jr "IT was war," declared Gelindo Bordin, after running 42.195 km for the last piece of precious metal in these Games of friendly strife. It was for the marathon, named after a place where men crossed swords
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  • SEOUL BEAT
    • 446 15 From Page 13. Grantland Rice, the great American sportswriter, once wrote that "wars are made by old men, but oh, how young they are where all the crosses stand." With the exception of perhaps Ben Johnson and Carl Lewis, the athetes of these Games do like
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    • Article, Illustration
      285 16 THEY are the names that will be remembered and mentioned. Time and again. In every flashback. In every conversation well after the Seoul searching is over. These are the ones who made the biggest impact in the Olympics in the positive sense, of course. The most bemedalled, the
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  • Article, Illustration
    93 17 You win some. You lose some. In some cases, you stumble and fumble all the way home. But it's not the winning that matters, it's the participation. Even if you have to be captured in such embarrassing moments, it's fine...for the sake of fun and Games. Over and
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  • Article, Illustration
    178 18 These are the outsiders. The ones who created history. By creating sensational upsets. By winning against all expectations. They were tne unknowns, the ones who competed for the sake of the Olympic ideal, but went home more than fulfilled. Call them the true champions, call them what you
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 1776 19 television SCREEN Entertainment This Week Olympic Moments Cine Showcase GEMS W (sbc 5,11.00 pm) The 24th Olympiad The Longest Day (B/W) (r) ft THIS week, ETW lcxiks at (SBC 12, 8.30pm) i (SBC 12,10.00pm) the end of the writers'strike in DARRVT r A CITING look spills is a detailed examination
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  • Article, Illustration
    183 21 These are the outsiders. The ones who created history. By creating sensational upsets. By winning against all expectations. They were tne unknowns, the ones who competed for the sake of the Olympic ideal, but went home more than fulfilled. Call them the true champions, call them what you
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    • 104 22 Tk New Paper Redott USA RedottO MEDAL jW tally my THE TOP TEN GOLD SILVER BRONZE m USSR 155 31 46 J (VP EAST GERMANY 37 35 30 USA [36 31 27 \*mt\ SOUTH KOREA 12 10 11 V V WEST GERMANY 11 14 15 HUNGARY 11 I 6 6
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    92 23 They came with high hopes. Defending champions some, world No. 1 others. But, at the end of their events, their hopes remained just dreams. All failed, not for want of trying, but because their best was not good enough. Dobre: Being the world champion, much was expected of
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  • 329 24 SEOULBEAT THE Gaines spoilers. The Olympic wreckers. Call them what you want. We call them the Seoulbusters! For these are the wrongdoers, the lawbreakers, the evil weevils and the hopes-on-dope. They are the ones who have brought shame and disgrace to Seoul and the Olympic movement. Without them,
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  • MALAYSIACUP
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    • 290 25  -  Stories/i Abdul Shukor YOU can count on us, Singapore. That's the firm assurance from 75 fans who travelled to Ipoh even though the Perak-Singaproe clash had no bearing on our League standing. These are the die-hard fans. Win or lose, they are there to share the joy
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    • 124 25 PERAK'S coach Abdullah Nordin is in danger of being sacked by the Perak FA after his team's exit from the Malaysia Cup. Abdullah, back with Perak after 15 years, watched helplessly as his team slumped in the second half against Singapore in Ipoh last night. The
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    • 508 26  -  By S. Gulam FOR 44 minutes Singapore looked anything but the Malaysia Cup League runners-up. Then suddenly, it woke up from slumberland and taught Perak a valuable lesson on counter-attacking. Was it arrogance? Or was it simply over-confidence? Whatever it was, Singapore can consider itself
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    • 310 26  -  By Abdul Shukor FOR Man-of-the-Match Hasnim Haron, his goal on the stroke of half-time is probably one he will cherish for a long time. Just when Singapore looked like trodding into the changing room for a goal-less first half, Hasnim struck. K. Zulkifli, who had
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  • RASMONTODAY
    • 526 27  -  By Brenton Wong HE WAS the designer who single-handedly created his own fabric fireworks in this year's National Day Parade costumes. He was also the hand behind the National Costume for Miss Singapore/Miss World 1985. He was also on a panel of 11 international judges
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    • 324 27 NYT. IT is getting difficult to find the standard garden variety of ice cream in the supermarket today. Light, low-calorie, lowfat, no-cholesterol, lac-tose-free alternatives are crowding out the familiar products. Today, healthful frozen desserts can taste rich, full-bodied and refreshing. But not all manufacturers have been
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  • S&owtot*c
    • 388 28  -  By Sonja Tan IF you think children are best seen and not heard, think again especially if you are taking part in this year's Mrs of the World/Singapore Contest. In fact, children are a blessing in this contest. Each child entitles the contestant to two bonus
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    • 579 28  -  By Sonja Tan Adeline Woon T ,HEY are wary of each other but they can't do without each other. That's the fine balance in the relationship between artistes and critics here. "A congenial but cautious relationship" is Ms Ruby Lim-Yang's description. She is
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  • Page 29 Miscellaneous
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  • SHOWTIME
    • 389 34  -  Stories/ Brenton Wong HANIS International will be the first local modelling agency to groom girls for the international circuit. It begins operations today, and Hanis International will also be bringing in models from Taiwan and Australia. Fronted by Ms Hanis, our Singapore superstar on the international
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    • 308 34 w p ORKING overseas should be no problem for Singapore girls. Permits are available so long as they don't try to hang around after the fashion show ends. Most models working in Europe are foreigners. They usually go there on holiday visas,
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    • 374 35  -  By Adeline Woon MODELLING. That's what Mick Jagger's girlfriend, Billy Joel's wife and Idi Amin's ex-wife all do in common. If last night's Supermodel Of The World (SBC 5, 9.35 pm) was anything to go by, the taste in models this year is
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    • 352 35  -  By Lo Tien Yin S BC is gearing up to cater for the English-speaking viewers with a taste for local drama. Besides having local En-glish-language plays on air soon, SBC is also building up a pool of full-time English dubbing artistes. So far, SBC has
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    • 198 35 THE tall frame of Samuel Chong stalked Dubbing Suite 4 of SBC. He stopped occasionally at one of the dubbing artistes, gave a few pointers, then motioned to the technician at the control panel outside. There was a beep and the word, RECORDING,
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    • Article, Illustration
      186 35 AND GOD CREATED WOMAN (Lido/Changi) A TALE of a free-spirited girl who marries a guy just to get out of prison. Rebecca DeMornay stars in this Roger Vadim film. Many sexy scenes have been badly and obviously cut to leave a very disjointed story. Times: Lido: 11 am, 1.30,
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    • 567 36  -  Red Sorghum film maker talks to The New Paper: By Vivien Chiong WHEN you talk of China's internationally-acclaimed film Red Sorghum, you're talking about China's Zhang Yimou. But there was a time when he had to sell his blood to buy a camera. He has since
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    • 355 36  -  By Griselda Loo ARTIST Henry Chia has done what most people just dream about. He has combined his work with fun. Sailing and wood etching are his hobbies. The second is also his business. Henry, 37, works in an unusual medium. He uses a
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    • 366 37  -  By Adeline Woon JULIANNE Phillips' three-year marriage to Bruce Springsteen is on the decline, but her movie career is taking off. They are now separated, but not legally. Explained Phillips in an interview with American magazine Us, "There're no papers or anything like that it's
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    • 295 37 USA Today. COMEDIENNE Carol Burnett is going to the the Soviet Union to tell the Russians that there is nothing funny about alcoholism. Her parents both died from drink at the age of 46. For her, it's a chance to discuss alcoholism as
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    • 878 38 11 111 MONDAY ►Gallery ART BY THE HANDICAPPED. Brush paintings by two cerebral palsy victims. Chang Yee Chiew and Urn Sue Ling. Free. Casablanca Wine Bar and Restaurant, Emerald Hill Road. Open from noon to midnight. CHINESE CURRENCY. The exhibition traces the evolution of money from
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    • 18 38 OUT AND ABOUT: Baboons at the zoo FOOD: Wallowing in waffles COMING UP: Modern dance class
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    • 133 38 A picture paints a thousand words. 80 does Jean-Pierre AmieL He is a Swiss mime artiste. He tells stories through actions and facial expressions. Starting tonight, he will perform an act called Un Jour la Terre meaning One Day, The Earth. It roughly chronicles the origins and
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