Streats, 13 September 2000

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  • 21 1 STREATS Treats for the Streets WEDNESDAY 13 September 2000 Another quality publication of Singapore Press Holdings E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 103/06/2000
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  • morning rush
    • 54 1 THE next time you receive an appeal for blood via e-mail, you’ll know it is genuine and not a chain-mail scam if it was generated by the Blood E-mail Appeal System (Beas). The tamper-proof Beas is being perfected by two law students, Charles Lim, 24,
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    • 60 1 YOU'VE not been imagining things if you noticed a slight haze in the air in the last few days. While the air remained within the healthy range, satellite pictures have shown the cause: a significant increase in the number of hot spots and smoke plumes in Sumatra. This
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    • 56 1 THE 22nd Speak Mandarin Campaign gets underway this Saturday. It will be launched by Mr Mah Bow Tan, Minister for National Development at the premiere of a Chinese movie, A Tale of the Sacred Mountain, at 7.30 pm at GV Grand. It features a Mandarin film festival and
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  • 255 1 YOU must be quite desperate to use your mobile phone to even think of charging your battery at an MRT station, of all places. Why not use the public phones there instead? Besides, how long could you get away with it if you knew where
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  • 189 1  -  by SARAH NG IF your train was late last night, it was because of a technical failure at Choa Chu Kang MRT station. A reader, Mr K K Chugh, called the Streats hotline at 7.38 pm to report a 20minute delay at Yew Tee station. A check
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  • 193 1 There will be such a plethora of information that people won't know what to read f, and also to believe. Every day, I get so many newspapers and magazines. At the end of the week, before I finish any of
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  • Streatsmart local
    • 594 2 The story behind the second volume ofSM Lee Kuan Yew's memoirs, From Third World To First, to be launched on Saturday W H 0 /5 it for YOUNGER Singaporeans “must know that our survival did not happen naturally. We survived because we carefully examined our
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    • 339 3 LESS than two hours after this desperate call to the police at noon on Monday, 51-year-old cabby Cheung Lip Keng was dead. Earlier that day, Mr Cheung had arranged to go fishing in Marina South with a few
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    • 242 3 YET another TV star has left Media Corp to join SPH Media Works. Evelyn Tan, actress-singer-compere and a bright star of MediaCorp’s Chinese Drama Unit, announced her move to Media Works yesterday, reported Lianhe Wanbao. The 24-year-old is the first drama artist to leave Media Corp.
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    • Interchange
      • 288 3 Background: The Straits Times conducted a survey of some of Singapore's food centres last week, with the verdict that most had poor hygiene standards. A mention was made of Ang Mo Kio Avenue 6 food centre as being "dirty, dirty, dirty',' leading the district
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    • 167 3 FORMER airport auxiliary policeman was yesterday jailed for three months for pocketing a discman and CDs which had been left on a plane. Adnan Haji Abol Hassan, 29, was handed an Aiwa discman, a black pouch andl2 CDs by a cleaner
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    • 278 4 He broke down and admitted the offence when police found and detained him FIFTEEN minutes is all it took for seven police officers to catch a suspected snatch thief on Monday afternoon. Clementi Police Station Commanding Officer DSP
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    • 195 4 FIRST, staff-crunched hospitals were recruiting foreign nurses. Now, foreign nursing students are being sought. Nanyang Polytechnic, faced with sharp falls in the number of nursing students, wants to take in students from abroad. In the coming months, a team from its School of Health Sciences
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    • 240 4 FARMS could take to the skies to help keep Singapore in vegetables in the next decade. Singapore could see hightech rooftop farming, said AgriFood and Veterinary Authority’s CEO Ngiam Tong Tau. “We can bring the farms up to the rooftops,” he said. “The aeroponic system
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    • news scan
      • 86 4 A FORMER associate professor who sued the National University Hospital for causing his IQ to fall to a “low average” level has decided to withdraw his court action. Mr Richard Low, a former accountancy lecturer at the Nanyang Technological University’s Nanyang Business School, initially claimed that
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      • 126 4 A SHOPKEEPER sold two Tare Panda soft toys but lost $12,300. On Monday around 1.30 pm, two men and a woman entered Madam Yin Kin Hwee’s toy and gift shop in Aljunied Avenue 2. After purchasing the two toys, the three suspects requested for them to be
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      • Article, Illustration
        132 4 A MINIBUS overturned onto its side after hitting a central road divider along Jalan Bukit Merah at about 3.30 pm on Monday. According to the 54-year-old minibus driver, he was travelling on the extreme right lane of Jalan Bukit Merah towards Alexandra Road when a silver car suddenly
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    • 248 5 CONDITIONS at your workplace are going to get better. Singapore is taking steps to improve conditions for its workers, many of whom are currently not covered by occupational health legislation. The announcement last month that the Factories Act was being reviewed to cover
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    • 79 5 Our weather girl says Hi! Partly cloudy and slightly hazy weather continues today, so I'm keeping my sunglasses with me. The temperature will reach a high of 33 deg C. If you want to go for a swim, the first high tide will reach 2.6 m at 11.35 am, and
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    • Just a minute
      • 46 5 If you are young or female or have never donated blood, the fourth Nationwide Emergency Blood Exercise (NEBE) is targeted at you. It will start tomorrow and runs on until Sept 17. The National Blood Centre will accept blood donations on all four days.
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      • 29 5 Remember The Sydney Olympics will start on Sept 15, which is just two days away! Remember to tune in to Sports City and support our sportsmen, or log onto
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      • 65 5 www.sporstcity.com.sg and wish our athletes all the I best in their quest for I glory. The Games end on I Oct 1. Head down to the Atrium at MITA Building at lunchtime today for some jiving jazz! You will be entertained from Ipm to 1.45 pm by
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  • Streatsmart column
    • 562 6 IF YOU have not travelled with your parents since you became financially independent, here’s a piece of friendly advice do it at the risk of your bank account. And peace of mind. In my case recently, both the bank account and my patience ran dry. And
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    • 87 6 ffhope the LTA will release details of its survey that found the country does *have a "world-class transport system". I beg to differ. We are not even close to world-class. The integration of public buses; the MRT and taxis is far from efficient. Punctuality, frequency integration and
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  • Streatsmart regional
    • news scan
      • 52 7 Reuters TAIPEI Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, could visit Taiwan in November. Quoting an unidentified Presidential Office source, the Independence Evening Post said the Dalai Lama was expected to meet President Chen Shui-bian and preach Tibetan Buddhism on what would be his second visit to
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      • 77 7 Reuters UNITED NATIONS The Security Council will send a mission to Indonesia next week to investigate the resurgence of military strikes against UN relief workers and Timorese civilians trapped in refugee camps. The delegation would “convey a strong message to the government” to disarm and disband
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      • 68 7 Reuters BANGKOK A bomb exploded outside a hotel in the Laotian capital of Vientiane on Sunday. Nobody was hurt by the explosion in the early hours of the morning outside the Asian Pavilion Hotel. Police said five people had been questioned after the blast but gave
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      • 96 7 Reuters MELBOURNE Police and anti-globalisation protesters clashed for a second day outside a World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting as activists resumed a blockade at dawn yesterday to try to stop delegates from getting into the event. Police managed to get seven buses through. Hundreds of police surrounded
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      • 82 7 Reuters PHNOM PENH Cambodia plans to expel foreigners suspected of sex offences, regardless of whether they are found guilty of any crime. A blacklist of all foreign sex-crime suspects would be drawn up, the Cambodia Daily reported, and those on the list would be denied a
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    • 213 7 Reuters JOLO, Philippines Rebels have taken three kidnapped Malaysians to Jolo, outpacing the navy with a speedboat bought with ransom received for previous hostages, officials said yesterday. Colonel Candido Casimiro, the police chief on southern Jolo island, said some 200 armed Abu Sayyaf men were
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    • know or not
      • 57 7 At 103 m, the world's tallest Buddha statue in Tokyo may soon have to hand over the title to a 150 m bronze one that's to be built in India. A religious group in India has hired a British company to design the world's tallest Buddha statue,
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      • 48 7 Jennifer Aniston's shag hairdo may have started a trend, but the Friends actress is now part of another trend. Fitness magazine named Ms Aniston's body type as one that has the "lollipop look"- a stick-thin body that makes your head look too big.
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    • 230 7 Another Finn, Seppo Franti, says one guerilla used him as a human shield during afirefight Reuters HELSINKI One of the four European hostages freed at the weekend by Philippine guerillas said some of the female hostages released earlier had been raped by the rebels,
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    • 290 9 Reuters Troops sent to Nagoya area; soldiers rescued 30 people stranded on rooftops NAGOYA, Japan Flooding and landslides from Japan’s worst rains since 1891 have killed four as authorities urge almost 400,000 to flee their homes in the
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    • 252 9 Reuters CANBERRA The dream of building a railway network across Australia is back on the drawing board with three projects in the pipeline. Australia is turning to private firms to fill in the gaps in the national rail network. The government, once owner and
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    • web cites
      • 59 9 Don't you just hate it when you're nine-tenths of the way into downloading a 20MB movie file and your PC freezes? End such disasters by going to GoziHa.com or Getright.com, where you can get help to resume broken downloads. The programs offered can even shut down
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      • 53 9 Sending huge files over the Internet is foolish and costly. Compress your files and save some disk space with Winzip.com. When you need to use the file, just unzip it. Winzip is also a great archive utility for Windows, saving you time when transferring
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  • Streatsmart global
    • 331 10 Reuters In London, lines grew for the last dregs of petrol before dawn even broke LONDON Britain said it might invoke emergency powers to prevent rising panic over petrol, which has escalated into a nationwide crisis disrupting schools, food and
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    • 172 10 -AP DHAKA, Bangladesh A man who has taken 14 men hostage has demanded a nationwide ban on smoking and a crackdown on crimes before he releases his captives. The middle-aged hostage taker, who identified himself as Tayebur Rahman, has been holding the men since late
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    • 51 10 gofigure_ How much will it cost to send your two-year-old child to university in 16 years' time? It will set you back about $66,000 to get your child to a local university. To send your child to the US, you will need about $333,000. survey commissioned by
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    • 255 10 Reuters Murderer maintains that another man raped and killed the victim RICHMOND DNA tests sought by a Virginia death row inmate hoping to avert his execution may instead have sealed his fate by confirming that his blood was under the victim’s fingernails. Virginia Govenor Jim
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    • news scan
      • 81 10 Reuters ALBUQUERQUE A federal judge unexpectedly delayed the release of former Los Alamos nuclear scientist Wen Ho Lee after his lawyers and prosecutors failed to agree on last-minute details for a plea bargain. The Taiwan-born scientist had been charged with 59 counts of illegally copying US
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      • 95 10 Reuters CAPE CANAVERAL Astronaut Edward Lu and cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko left the space shuttle Atlantis shortly before Ipm Singapore time on Monday, and spent more than six hours working on the orbiting International Space Station, a US$6O billion (Sslo4 billion) project which is expected to be completed
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      • 73 10 Reuters LONDON Addiction to nicotine may start within a few days of starting to smoke and after just a few cigarettes, contradicting belief that nicotine addiction is a gradual process. “The first symptoms of nicotine dependence can appear within days to weeks of the onset of occasional
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      • 93 10 Reuters BOGOTA Gunmen claiming allegiance to an anti-communist death squad in Colombia have shot dead a journalist and dumped his body on a remote roadside. Carlos Jose Restrepo, editor and publisher of two regional publications in central Tolima province, was the fourth journalist murdered this year in
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      • 68 10 Reuters STANTON, Delaware The wife of Democratic vice presidential candidate Joseph Lieberman defended her husband from criticism over his call for a “constitutional place for faith in public life”. Hadassah Lieberman said her husband had always been a “firm advocate of First Amendment rights” and the
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  • Stratsmart people
    • 201 11 EX-MEDIACORP actress Deborah Sim may have left the TV station, but she’s not out of showbusiness. And she’s not coming over to SPH Media Works either. Deborah has set her sights beyond local shores at the Hongkong and Taiwan markets. And wait till you hear
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    • 146 11 GEORGE W Bush’s campaign dismissed a report that the Republican presidential nominee may be dyslexic, calling it “fiction stranger than truth”. An article in the magazine Vanity Fair by best-sell-ing author Gail Sheehy concluded that the Texas governor’s often-mocked malapropisms could stem from dyslexia. It is a language-based
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    • 79 11 HOLLYWOOD star Jennifer Lopez sent temperatures soaring on an already hot London night as she arrived for the British premiere of The Cell. Hundreds of fans packed into Leicester Square to catch a glimpse of Lopez as she arrived wearing a short, silvery Anna Molinari dress and pink
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    • Article, Illustration
      120 11 RYOKO HIROSUE fever has hit Japan yet again. The popular Japanese actress-singer of Beach Boys fame is so hot that she is causing a stealing frenzy among her fans, reported Hongkong’s The Sun. Posters of the 20-year-old in a health drink advertisement are being torn down the minute
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  • Streatsmart feature
    • 444 12 one ofa kind We continue with our series, where ourphotojournalist; Francis Lee, meets his first real challenge in being a real-life Mr Nice Guy TODAY was an especially tough day. I had to get up at 6am in order to be at Bukit Batok
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    • 63 12 Has someone been kind A k to yon today? sa m<hil V.U v.t We want to know about it. Share your experience and, if we publish your story, you'll win a limited edition Streats watch Here's how: Call the Streats Hotline at 1800 844-5566 (10am to 10pm), or e-mail streats@sph.com.sg
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  • easy STREATS
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      52 13  -  mewitdii hour by 'Cara van Miriah Were you where it was happening earlier this month? Where were you when Womad was happening at Fort Canning? If you weren't one of the thousands who went wild, let the Witch fill you in on what went on. Flip the page;
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    • easyStreats fun
      • 357 14  -  thewitch's nour by Cara van Miriah IF you weren’t at Fort Canning for Womad earlier this month, kick yourself. You missed a spiritual awakening. Womad was rockin’. It was an alternative diet dying to happen. But wait. Where were you when all this was happening? What is
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      • 431 15 THE us entertainment industry aggressively markets violent niovies, music and electronic games to children even when they have been given adult ratings. So says a US federal government report released on Monday. The report was ordered by President Bill Clinton and
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      • channel scan
        • Today's must-see TV...
          • Article, Illustration
            69 15 10.30 pm, TCS 8 Who cares if this serial has a a plot thinner than Kleenex? This abs and pecs j show is a sure I antidote for I audience l| ennui. Tonight’s v episode sees 1 Pier (Tay Ping Hui) finally popping the question to
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          • 62 15 10pm, Arts Central This movie won the Best Picture Award at the 1991 Nantes Film Festival in France, as well as the Silver Award at the 1991 Tokyo Film Festival. It tells the tale of five girls who grow up together in a backward village,
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          • 34 15 2am, Sports City This is European soccer at its best, k with stars like m Real Madrid’s Luis Figo providing the sparks. Will Real Madrid beat f Sporting Lisbon? Stay tuned.
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          • Article, Illustration
            60 15 10pm, VV Entertainment (SCV 56) It’s never a boring night when comedy king, Stephen Chow, takes to the > screen. He plays Wan Tin-Sau, i a struggling I actor who I never has luck I on a film set. 1 Karen Mok stars as the bargirl who
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          • 69 15 9pm, National Geographic (SCV 35) Photo enthusiasts, take note! This programme is a profile of Max Vadukul, one of the fashion industry’s top photographers. The man has beaten heavy-weights like Helmut Newton and Richard Avedon for the top spot at the New Yorker and takes regular
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    • Streats Life
      • Article, Illustration
        269 17 Guess her job, win a Swatch! Name: KHs Ng Age: 22 Gets on MRT at: Boon Lay Gets off at: Tiong Bahru lam... An optimistic person. I don’t want to feel sad. Even if I have to do something I don’t like, I look at the positive side
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    • easyStreats sports
      • olympic scan
        • 83 22 -AP SYDNEY A Canadian water polo player says she’s honoured to have joined the crowd of athletes posing nude for magazine previews of the Olympics. Waneek Horn-Miller appeared on the cover of the Canadian edition of Time magazine last week holding a water polo ball and wearing
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        • 81 22 AFP SYDNEY Chinese gymnastics star Lu Yufu (right) has been ruled out of the Olympics after taking a tumble during training, team officials said yesterday. Lu, 22, a member of China’s dominant men’s team favoured to win gold, injured his neck after a heavy landing from a
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        • 61 22 -AP MELBOURNE The US basketball teams made a bizarre, pre-dawn exit from their besieged hotel yesterday after getting final clearance from “Zippy the Mohawk,” a young demonstrator. With massive protests taking place outside their hotel, which hosted the World Economic Forum, the men’s and women’s Olympic
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        • 91 22 Reuters SYDNEY Fed up with the media glare, France’s triple Olympic champion Marie-Jose Fterec (right) is preparing to desert her five-star Sydney hotel for the obscurity of the athletes’ village. The unpredictable 32-year- old has refused all interview requests since arriving on Friday and The Australian newspaper,
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        • 76 22 AFP SYDNEY Three women who apparently work as prostitutes found their way into the pub at the Olympic village where journalists are staying while covering the Games. Police “are conducting an inquiry into how they got in,” said Geoffrey Bennun, manager of the media village. The three
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      • 418 22 An Olympic gold is the only prize missing from the Welshman's 15-year career as the best 110 m hurdler Reuters GOLD COAST (Australia) When Colin Jackson said it would be “nice” if he could finally land the 110 metres hurdles Olympic gold medal it could be considered
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      • 236 22 A decision on who will light the flame will be made tomorrow -AFP SYDNEY Bets totalling A 5500,000 (*****,000) have already been taken on who will light the Olympic flame on Friday. Centrebet agency says the total is expected to go upto A$ 10 million. Australian
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      • 273 23 Reuters there were butterflies in mystomach looking out ofthe window and seeing Australia -Marion Jones, on arrivalin Australia MELBOURNE Marion Jones, who plans to make history at the Sydney Olympics, confessed to feeling nervous after flying in to Australia yesterday morning. The American sprinter is bidding for
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      • 262 23 Sportsmen detailing ill with a variety °f ailments, most housed by overtraining THEY seem the picture of health. But there are alarming signs that athletes are finding it increasingly difficult to cope with the unrelenting drive toward excellence. “Most athletes say that
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      • sport scan
        • 67 23 Reuters LONDON -A rare goal by Tottenham Hotspur defender Sol Campbell left West Ham United rooted at the foot of the Premier League on Monday. Campbell’s 67th minute bullet header from an Oyvind Leonhardsen corner gave Spurs a deserved 1-0 win and boosted them from eighth to fifth
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        • 80 23 -AFP SYDNEY A North Korean sports leader said yesterday there were still “many difficulties” for his Stalinist state to co-host the 2002 World Cup finals, despite a growing mood of interKorean reconciliation. North and South Korea have agreed to walk side by side behind a joint flag
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        • 80 23 -AFP LONDON Manchester United defender Gary Neville (right) has launched a stinging attack on the Champions League, claiming there are too many weak teams. Neville does not like the new format introduced last year by European soccer’s governing body Uefa which means some teams which finish
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        • 75 23 -AP MONZA (Italy) The Jordan team on Monday scratched Formula One tests at the Italian circuit of Mugello this week because the fatal firstlap crash at the Italian Grand Prix left them short of cars. Two of the British team’s cars were badly damaged in Sunday’s
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        • 56 23 Reuters MADRID Real Madrid defender Roberto Carlos (left) has urged the club to keep fellow Brazilian Savio, who was reportedly close to a move to Chelsea. Chelsea is understood to be ready to pay around U 5512.41 mil- lion (Ss2l million) for him, but Roberto Carlos
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        • 68 23 Reuters PARIS Barcelona take on English qualifiers Leeds United at the Nou Camp stadium tonight in what could be the pick of the evening in the first phase of the Champions League. Barcelona kicked off its domestic campaign this weekend with an away win at Malaga where
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    • 299 17 YOU take the spotlight every weekday as the face among the commuters that captures our photographer's eye. Today our StreatStaris Kris Ng. What's her line of work? Guess and win a Swatch Call 1900-911-0005 by midnight today. Three correct callers will each win a Swatch. Each call will be charged
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    • 503 18 X your birthday v.ypu share it I f it ell Chen Your Daily Horoscope AQUARIUS JAN 20-FEB 18 Finally you blink. Even you’re amazed by the power that you wield at this time. There are still a few hours left to perform one last miracle before it all slips away
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 339 19 WEDNESDAY 9 13 September 2000 Streats iTherelisialwortcf *tclr #3*l*ll* U* I I The story so far... Jia Yuzhen Is a 69-year-old renowned antique dealer. He buys an ancient screen for US$3 million. A year later, jet black hair sprouts on his previously bald head,and he looks 30 years younger... Has
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    • 267 20 WEDNESDAY Q 13 September 2000 The story so far... After Princess Uanxing glared at him, Hei Mian Jun simply toppled over and hit the ground. His shocked accomplices called out to him, but he was already dead. Too scared to retaliate, they made a run for it. Alas, Princess Uanxing
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