Streats, 2 October 2000

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  • Streatsmart Interchange
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      Lock icon User-friendly SMRT: LTA responds Soon, lifts at MRT stations
      584 2 I REFER to the column by Mr Lee Han Shin (reprinted in Streats Sept 28, and the letter from Mr Alvin Ng (Sept 28). As part of our efforts to make the MRT stations more user-friendly, especially to the elderly, the
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      Lock icon Pregnancy no ground for dismissal: MOM
      194 2 WE REFER to Ms Yvonne Tang’s letter and “One Pregnant Woman’s Dilemma” (Streats, 20 Sept 2000). Pregnant female employees are protected under the Employment Act. The Act prohibits their dismissal during pregnancy except for proven misconduct and redundancy. In the case of redundancy, it
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      Lock icon Compassion and the law
      153 2 n understand that the law has to be tough to stamp out illegal behaviour and I fully support imposing harsh sentences on those who rape, kill and rob. But come on, this is an old lady who can't read and write. Even I, a graduate, sometimes
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  • Streatsmart local
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      Lock icon Baby bonus not enough
      350 3 FEWER than half of those polled by the Feedback Unit think the Government’s pro-family measures will boost Singapore’s birth rate. Only 45 per cent of 600 polled thought new measures, like the Baby Bonus scheme and giving mothers paid maternity leave for a third child, would
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    • Article
      Lock icon You won't get lost in Ang Mo Kio
      201 3 IF YOU happen to lose your way in Ang Mo Kio, just ask a resident for help. He may be able to give you full details of getting around Ang Mo Kio by bus. SBS has published a bus guide to Ang
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    • Article
      Lock icon Thief helps himself to cash
      134 3 A BURGLAR helped himself to $1,900 cash at a Chinese restaurant last Friday but passed on thousands of dollars worth of abalone and sharksfin. At about 9.10 am on Saturday, the owner of Yu Jia Zhuang Exotic Chinese Cuisine Restaurant, Mr Tommy Chua, reported to
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    • Article
      Lock icon Five arrested in drug bust
      148 3 FIVE persons were arrested near Holland Avenue on Thurday and Friday for possession and trafficking of drugs. On Thursday, CNB received information that a 26-year-old male Chinese drug trafficker was distributing drugs. They staked out his flat at Holland Ave and spotted him passing drugs
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    • Article
      Lock icon Counter kindness
      100 3 onekindact Sarah Ng, Streats reporter WAS paying for my shopping at Siglap Centre's Cold Storage one evening. "Miss, this two-litre bottle is not on sale,"said the cashier, "Do you want the cheaper one-litre packs?" He even volunteered to calculate how much I would save. I trusted him and
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        Lock icon Man dies after vomiting
        128 3 A MAN died on Saturday morning after a bout of vomiting. The 47-year-old man was a driver in charge of transporting goods at the airport. He had taken a shower at about 10am that morning. When he stepped out of the shower, his body suddenly went
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      • Article
        Lock icon Choa Chu Kang flat fire
        132 3 A FIRE broke out at Block 210, Choa Chu Kang Central on Saturday morning. Fortunately, no one was injured. The Singapore Civil Defence Force was alerted to the fire at a unit on the second-storey at 8.26 am. They arrived within eight minutes. The unit
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        Lock icon Boy survives fall
        135 3 A THREE-YEAR-OLD boy fell two storeys at Parkway Parade on Saturday afternoon. At about 2.35 pm, the boy, together with his mother and two siblings, were about to take the escalator from the second-storey down to the first floor. But the boy ran towards the escalator and
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        Lock icon Housebreaker caught
        105 3 A 37-YEAR-OLD man was arrested by police on Saturday for housebreaking and theft. At around 10.48 pm, the police received a “999” call reporting that a man was behaving suspiciously beside a coffee shop at Blk 24, Sin Ming Road. They arrived at the scene within 10 minutes,
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      Lock icon 3m treated at polyclinics last year
      387 5 THE Health Ministry’s 150 doctors treated almost three million patients at polyclinics last year, according to a ministry official. The high work load results in long queues and short consultation times, but this does not deter people for whom the cost of health care
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    • Article, Illustration
      Lock icon Mammobus
      121 5 YES, that’s what this gaily-paint-ed bus is called. Its purpose: To roam the HDB heartlands and spread the message of early detection of breast cancer. How? To bring mammogram service to the residents living in the HDB estates it visits. The bus was launched as part of Breast Cancer
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      Lock icon Our weather girl says...
      77 5 Our weather girl says Hello! I'm May, your new weather girl. Sadly, there're no sunny skies on my debut, but occasional showers with thunder in the late morning and afternoon affecting most areas. The temperature will go up to 31 degrees Celsius. If you still want to swim, then catch
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    • Just a minute
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        Lock icon From today...
        59 5 All childcare centres and kindergartens will have to close for at least a week, as a precaution against the hand, foot and mouth disease. The closure will affect about 140,000 children in 557 childcare centres and 440 kindergartens. Parents are advised to keep their children at home and
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        Lock icon Remember...
        43 5 The National Trades Union Congress'(NTUC) special recruitment drive is on. For the first time, NTUC leaders can recruit members outside their workplace, including families and friends, and be rewarded for their efforts. The recruitment drive will be on till Oct 3 1.
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        Lock icon Check this out...
        69 5 Head down to Raffles S Hotel's Jubilee Hall V at Bpm tonight and be inspired by the CandoCo Dance Company comprising disabled and able-bodied performers. The awardwinning British dance company will dazzle your eyes with their fresh and contemporary dance work. Tickets at $25, $3O, $45 and
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  • Streatsmart column
    • Article
      Lock icon Who's on trial in Jakarta?
      139 6 betweenthelines Mms Dur's latest move to urge the police to allow protesters to stone the residence of Suharto is extraordinary, to say the least. This is tantamount to a president giving violent people a blank cheque to run amok and damage property. The president should
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      Lock icon Crazy times call for crazy ideas
      639 6 THE only parts of me that is responding to the government’s procreation exhortations are surprise, surprise my hips. For the past year, they have been expanding at an alarming rate. “It’s the onset of child-bearing hips,” said a friend whose time has yet to
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  • Sreatsmart regional
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      Lock icon Hundreds rally in central Jakarta Protests over fuel hike
      299 8 Reuters Riot police were present but there were no immediate dashes JAKARTA Hundreds of protesters rallied in central Jakarta yesterday against a 12 per cent hike in fuel prices, raising fears of fresh civil unrest. Five busloads of protesters, accompanied by
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      Lock icon Hundreds held in Falungong protest
      87 8 -AP BEIJING Followers of the outlawed Falungong sect chanted slogans and raised yellow banners on Tiananmen Square yesterday, in a burst of protest that defied heavy security meant to ensure patriotic celebrations of China’s National Day. Uniformed and plainclothes police kicked and pummelled sect members,
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      Lock icon Anxiety over gangsters among Malaysian Indians
      175 8 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR The issue of gangsterism in Malaysia’s Indian community has been a growing concern. Ramli Yusuff, deputy national chief of detectives, recently disclosed that there are 38 Indian crime gangs in the Malay peninsula with a total membership of around 1,500. “Indians
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        Lock icon Suharto 'can be tried'
        127 8 -AP SANTIAGO, CHILE Indonesia’s President Abdurrahman Wahid said former dictator Suharto can still be tried and that he is prepared to pardon his country’s ex-leader only after a sentence has been imposed. “There are other situations in which we have to investigate the participation that former
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        Lock icon Manila troops close in
        135 8 -AFP ZAMBOANGA Philippine troops tightened the noose around a mountain area on southern Jolo island where Muslim extremists were believed to be holding 17 hostages, the military said. Armed forces spokesman Brigadier-General Generoso Senga said special action force commandos and army scout rangers had encircled Mount
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        Lock icon Quake rattles Taiwan
        70 8 AP TAIPEI Four quakes measuring up to 4.7 on the Richter scale hit eastern Taiwan yesterday, but there were no reports of casualties or damage, seismologists said. The latest quake struck at 1.21 pm, with its epicentre I.Bkm west of Haulien. It originated 11.7 km below the
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    • know or not
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        Lock icon Child blossoms at five
        62 8 She started menstruating when she was a year old and developed breasts at two. Now, at five, Sarawak girl Flora Anna Peter's body is so developed she can conceive. A doctor had told the family that the phenomenon was caused by an abundance of estrogen. He
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        Lock icon Water and oil don't mix
        62 8 Your tongue and throat are burning from that extra spicy fish head curry. You gulp down a glass of water. To your horror, the stinging sensation is still there. When you eat the spicy food, the spice-con-taining oil coats your tongue and throat, causing the
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  • Streatsmart global
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      Lock icon Second Greek ship sinks
      249 9 -afp American tourist is tone casualty ATHENS An 82-year-old American died after a Greek ship carrying 31 US tourists and seven crew ran aground and sank late on Saturday near the island of Naxos, officials said. The Zeus 111, chartered to take tourists for trips around
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      Lock icon Russia, India to fight terror together
      112 9 -AFP Moscow Russian President V| adimir Putin said on Saturday that Russia and India could cornet international terrorism and [®ligious extremism effectively Pooling their efforts, RTR TV re Ported. Regarding India’s warming Nations with the US, Mr Putin s aid: “Russia no longer views
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      Lock icon go figure.
      47 9 National Benchmarking Survey on Volunteerism in Singapore (July) The helping spirit Which Singapore ethnic group scores highest in voluntary spirit? Indians, with the highest volunteer rate of 19 per cent Eight per cent of Chinese and five Per cent of Malays are likely to volunteer.
      – National Benchmarking Survey on Volunteerism in Singapore (July)  -  47 words
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      Lock icon Police puzzle over drug sub
      105 9 AP Colombia On Sept 6, the police broke into a warehouse in the Bogota suburb of hacatativa. They were dumbfounded. The huge metal cylinders were sections of a submarine. Once completed, it could have ferried some 150 tons of cocaine to the US with almost
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      Lock icon 26 Palestinians hurt in West Bank, Gaza clashes
      223 9 -AFP GAZA CITY At least 26 Palestinians were wounded by Israeli soldiers who fired rubber bullets on stone-throwing demonstrators in separate incidents in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip yesterday, witnesses said. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian leader Yasser
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        Lock icon India to train for N-war
        142 9 -AFP NEW DELHI The Indian army will be trained to prepare for a nuclear war with an emphasis on weapons, tactics and war games, said new army chief General Sunderrajan Padmanabhan. Gen Padmanabhan, who took charge on Saturday, said that India’s military force needed to
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        Lock icon Yugoslav standoff
        109 9 -AFP BELGRADE Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic appeared determined to cling to power, dismissing opposition complaints over election results and reportedly rejecting a Russian offer of mediation. Demonstrations and strikes took hold across Serbia, even in towns where opposition activities have been little visible until now. Some 10,000 opposition
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        Lock icon Doctor playing the fool
        112 9 -AFP LOS ANGELES Gerald Barnes practiced medicine at clinics throughout the Los Angeles area, treating thousands of patients over 20 years. The only problem was that he was not a doctor. Last month, he left his minimum-security camp with a bus ticket and orders to report
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        Lock icon Obassanjo vows reforms
        120 9 -AFP ABUJA As Nigeria celebrated its 40th anniversary of independence, Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo said he aimed to fundamentally reform the country. After a civil war and years of corrupt military government, Nigeria is now perceived as the most corrupt nation in the world. “The whole world
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  • Streatsmart people
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      Lock icon Annabelle Chong: Politician?
      142 11 CAN you picture Grace Quek, aka Annabelle Chong, 28, as a politician? Yet that is what the porno actress has declared, as part of the plans to turn a new leaf. Known for her notorious record-breaking sex marathon with 251 men, Annabelle now has a new goal
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      Lock icon Media Works stars all tied up
      178 11 TODAY is a day to remember for SPH Media Works its first batch of new, yet experienced artistes, will be reporting for work. That’s Kym, Bryan, Darren, Yanqing and Guo Liang. And guess what these stars been doing between quitting Media Corp and resurfacing
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      Lock icon Tae does a Nicholas Tse, onscreen
      137 11 EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD Tae will be romancing Taiwanese actress Lu Xiaofen, who is in her 40s. Now fans, before you start panicking and thinking that Tae has decided to follow in Nicholas Tse’s footsteps, breathe easy the romance is just onscreen. The up and coming Thai
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      Lock icon Mopping sweat
      147 11 Reuters up sweat from athletes may not ev eryone’s idea of a great job at the n ey Games but Maggie Vos has e d every minute of it. For one thing it s you close to some of the big names /j e Olympics. b Vos and
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  • Streatsmart feature
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      Lock icon Breast Cancer: Check it early, Remove it painlessly
      584 12 Breast Cancer Check it early, Remove it painlessly On Friday, weranastory of a woman who cutoff her breasts as a way of preventing breast cancer. Today we have better news: The mammotomy a new technique for extracting lumps from the breast. Reporter SARAH NG and photographer CHARLES NG were at
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  • easy STREATS
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      Lock icon no Vain no pain
      429 13  -  by Sarah Ng High heels are torture on the buses and on the streets. So why do women still insist on wearing high heels to work? these heels, you would agree, Weren’t made for walking. Not on the streets, not for running after a bus, not
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      Lock icon Walking tall and sexy
      268 14 Tips on how to wear heels USE only the ball of your feet (the front part) when you board the MRT train. You don’t want your heels to be caught in the gap between the platform and the MRT carriage. YOUR high heels’ greatest enemies are
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    • easyStreats treats
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        Lock icon Ta Mee just like it used to taste
        199 15  -  two shoes by. Judi Low "SEDAP SEKALI" (absolutely delicious), was the verdict my mum handed this stall’s offerings. And she’s been around 80 years long enough to know what’s authentic and what’s not. I had been warned of its popularity. It seems
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        • Today's must-see TV...
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            Lock icon SCV METRO
            70 15 7.30 pm, TCS 5 The plot’s simple: Eddie k Murphy plays a police arbitrator who swears to i avenge the death of his I buddy who was killed by psychotic bad guy I (Michael Wincott). f Along the way, he is forced to team up with a f
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            Lock icon DHARMA AND GREG
            63 15 10pm,TCS 5 Who can resist Jenna Elfman’s impish face and Thomas Gibson’s good-natured A grin? Welcome back to wackiness with the third l season of Dharma and I Greg. In the debut I episode, Greg ques- I tions his place in the 1 universe and begins a
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            Lock icon SHOT THROUGH THE HEART
            79 15 9pm, HBO (SCV 60) This HBO Original Movie is a haunting true story about two longlife v friends who are sepV arated by the bloody 1 Bosnian civil war. 1 Croatian Vlado f (Linus Roach) joins the war when he realises that his child- V hood
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            Lock icon ENCINO MAN
            92 15 9pm, STAR MOVIES (SCV 58) This is really shaping up to be a movies night. While this particular one has been shown on TCS 5 a few times, it still makes fun viewing for those into light comedy. Brendan Fraser stars as a caveman who is rescued from
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            Lock icon MODEL BEHAVIOUR
            73 15 Bpm, Disney Channel (SCV 33) This is for all the teenage girls out there who read Sweet Valley High. Alex Burrows is a shy 16-year-old girl who exchanges places with a look-a-like model to live life as she has never experienced before. Justin Timberlake of N’Sync does a
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    • easyStreats sports
      • olympic scan
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          Lock icon Abera in Bikila's footsteps
          70 22 -AFP SYDNEY Gezahgne Abera (left) won the men’s marathon yesterday to cap a glorious Sydney Games for Ethiopia and draw a curtain down on the sporting action at the Millennium Olympics. Kenya’s Eric Wainaina took the silver and the bronze. Abera finished in 2hr 10min 11sec
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          Lock icon US survives scare
          90 22 AP SYDNEY The US men’s basketball team clinced its third consecutive Olympic gold medal yesterday, but only after a tougher-than-expect-ed 85-75 victory over France who with four minutes left trailed by only four points. The Americans, who now have taken 12 of 14 Olympic titles, were heavily
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          Lock icon No gold for US boxers
          85 22 AP SYDNEY American boxers will go home from an Olympics without a gold medal for the first time since 1948. Ricardo Williams Jr, (right) who had outpointed Diogenes Luna of Cuba 42-41 in a semi-final bout, settled for a silver medal when he lost 27-20
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          Lock icon Ex-world champ ousted
          49 22 Reuters SYDNEY Uzbekistan’s young star, Artur Taymozov, took just 37 seconds yesterday to cause the biggest upset of the final day in freestyle wrestling. Taymozov, 21, faced the 1998 World champion, Alexis Rodriguez of Cuba in the under 130 kg semi-final but just blew him away.
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          Lock icon Weightlifer caught doping
          77 22 Reuters SYDNEY Armenian weightlifter Ashot Danielyan was stripped of his medal for cheating with drugs yesterday when Olympic leaders announced two new positive tests for steroids at the Sydney Games. Danielyan, the fourth weightlifter to lose a medal because of doping, forfeited his bronze in the superheavyweight
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          Lock icon New hammer throw rules
          103 23 -AFP SYDNEY Two deaths this year caused by the men’s hammer have prompted the world governing body to consider changes to the implement in order to reduce distances. “We want to reduce the distances thrown to 65 metres,” said International Amateur Athletic Federation (lAAF) general Istvan
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          Lock icon Luxemburgo fired
          79 23 Reuters RIO DE JANEIRO Wanderley Luxemburgo (right) has been fired from his job as Brazil’s soccer coach, the Globo TV network reported on Saturday. Luxemburgo was told of his dismissal when he met with Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) president Ricardo Teixeira at a Rio de Janeiro golf club,
          – Reuters  -  79 words
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          Lock icon Tatiana's secret: love
          90 23 Reuters SYDNEY- Love has sent glamorous Australian pole vaulter Tatiana Grigorieva (left) soaring to new heights but her mother wishes she had been leaping for Russia. The Russian-born blonde, whose stunning looks have made her frontpage news everywhere from Sydney newspapers to Sports Illustrated, landed the Olympic
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          Lock icon Big welcome for Raducan
          79 23 BUCHAREST About 1,000 well-wishers welcomed home gymnast Andreea Raducan on Saturday with the country and Romanian sports authorities deeply bitter over a doping dispute that cost her an Olympic gold medal. “It is a lovely surprise on my birthday,” said Raducan, who turned 17 while en
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          Lock icon Athens is okay, says IOC
          68 23 AP SYDNEY Athens got the green light yesterday, just a few months after lOC president Juan Antonio Samaranch hinted that the 2004 Games could be pulled out of Greece. “There is no Plan B,’ Francois Carrard, director-general of the International Olympic Committee, told the final
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        Lock icon Pool scores over track
        407 22 Despiteallthe superstars of thetrack,it was the battle ofthepool which provided some of the bestmoments AP SYDNEY The world records in the pool stood out. So did Cathy Freeman. So too did nandrolone and ephedrine. Marion Jones tried to become the defining star of the Sydney Games
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        Lock icon Thailand's golden boy
        173 22 -AP SYDNEY -To the non-stop chant of “Thailand, Thailand,” boxer Wijan Ponlid slashed through the defences of Kazakstan’s Bulat Jumadilov to win his country’s first gold medal yesterday. The southpaw flyweight, looking a winner from start to finish, outpointed Jumadilov 19-12. It was only the second gold
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        Lock icon US suppressing results of drug tests: IAAF
        164 22 USATFhas failed to report up to 15 positive cases in the past two years -AP SYDNEY USA Track and Field continues to suppress details on at least 10 positive drug tests, including three for the same steroid allegedly used by CJ Hunter, the
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        Lock icon A Games to remember
        340 23 -AP Organisers wanted a relaxedshow that let competitors and spectators send the games off in style SYDNEY From the fields of play to Sydney’s spectacular harbour, Australia and the world’s athletes bid goodbye yesterday to two weeks of sporting triumphs and doping embarrassments a memorable Summer
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        Lock icon MEDALS TALLY
        302 23 G S B USA 39 25 33 Russia 32 28 28 China 28 16 15 Australia 16 25 17 Germany 14 17 26 France 13 14 11 Italy 13 8 13 Holland 12 9 4 Cuba 11 11 7 Britain 11 10 7 Romania 11 6 9 South
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        Lock icon Asia's best-ever performance
        341 23 -AP SYDNEY Beginning with a Japanese runner blazing to a gold medal, the Sydney Olympics had the best-ever showing by Asia. When the last event was over yesterday, Asian teams had captured 43 golds 14 per cent of the total compared with 31 at the 1996 Atlanta
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      469 14 J odWfc,. today, you share it with Sting Your Daily Horoscope mumms JAN 20-FEB 18 You assume universal acceptance of a difference that no one else has noticed. Be careful when diving into unfamiliar waters. Behave like a guest until you fully grasp the rules. PISCES FEB 19-MAR 18 K
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      234 18 < > I t Jf t j W M r 1 i 3 yp I The story so far. Mistaken by the innkeeper as Sima Yan, Yan Nantian was warmly welcomed and served an elaborate feast and wine. Yan decided to play along to get more information about Jiang Qin.
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