Streats, 18 October 2000

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  • 22 1 STREATS Treats for the Streets WEPNESBAY 18 October 200 Q Another quality publication of Singapore Press Holdings E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 103/06/2000
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  • morning rush
    • 52 1 MORE than 24 hours of intense diplomacy by US President Bill Clinton paid off at the emergency summit in Cairo yesterday with Israel and the Palestinians agreeing to a deal aimed at ending 20 days of spiralling violence and of resuming the faltering peace process. Full story on
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    • 51 1 PMGOH Chok Tong will attend the 3rd Asia-Europe Meeting (Asem) in Seoul (Oct 19 to 21), after which he will visit Japan (Oct 21 to 23). Asem involves leaders from 10-Asian countries, 15 European Union member countries and the European Commission. It aims to strengthen AsiaEurope
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  • 368 1  -  78% k A of working women found women bosses more difficult [s9°/d believe successful women abuse power as much as successful men 59% L A say their worst enemies at work are women by Sarah Ng A SURVEY involving 476 Singapore working women shows that most
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  • Streatsmart local
    • 234 2  -  He entered Singapore illegally, gotpast immigration at airport by Deepa Vijayasingam HE was just minutes away from boarding a plane bound for Tokyo. But his luck ran out. Sivapalam Sevaraja, a 23-year-old Sri Lankan national managed to get past a customer service agent and an immigration officer
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    • 267 2 THESE “eyes’ are watching and keeping guard. Even at night. Secret cameras installed along Singapore’s coast are the Police Coast Guard’s latest weapons in its battle against illegal immigrants, pirates and smugglers. The Electro-Optic cameras, bought from the United States for about $8 million,
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    • 148 2 TWO men were charged in a district court yesterday with murdering a moneychanger, while a third man was accused of killing a taxi driver. Wan Kamil Mohd Shafian, 33, and Ibrahim Mohd, 34, were charged with shooting moneychanger Jagabar Sathik on Aug 26 at a pedestrian
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    • 146 2 A TOTAL of 2,024 cases of hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) have been reported since Oct 1 after it became a notifiable disease. The number of cases peaked on Oct 4, but has fallen steadily since. About 1,400 of them occurred during
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    • 203 3 Money changersays he lost cash to runaway babbie AN early morning taxi ride on Sunday apparently turned out to be a costly $395,000 affair for one passenger. Assistant money changer Abdul Jaleel s/o Moideen Abdul Kader; 58, had gone to his employer’s home in Villa Marina
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    • 132 3 TAMIL theatre group Agni Koothu has accused the National Arts Council (NAC) of threatening to withhold the licence of a forthcoming play. The experimental drama group told the Straits Times yesterday that the NAC had unreasonably included two members of a reli- gious group
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    • 232 3 The guilty has 44 previous convictions IT WAS an accidental bump on the street but the situation quickly turned nasty and landed a man in court. Mohamad Farhad Akbar, 35, was sentenced by the district court yesterday to for seven years in jail
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    • news scan
      • 101 3 A CONSTRUCTION worker died after he was crushed by a one-tonne concrete block at a work site at Admiralty Link. Mr Chen Hu Lai, 39, a Chinese national, was seriously hurt when the pre-cast slab fell on him at the HDB building site on Monday. He was taken
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      • 115 3 TWO sisters gave in to temptation and stole clothes worth $lO9 from the Seiyu department store in Parco Bugis Junction. At about 3pm on Aug 29, Malaysians Lee Ah Lan, 41, and Lee Mooi, 44, were browsing in the Ladies Wear section at Seiyu. A security officer,
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      • 87 3 WHEN the managing director of H&H International arrived at his workplace at 119 Genting Lane on Monday morning, he discovered that the front door to his offices was ajar and the lock tampered with. Mr Goh Yong Bak subsequently discovered that the cabinet drawers in the office
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    • 121 4 onekindact Jeffrey Law, 58, freelance writer A puppy was trying to crawl over to the other side of the road. It was the rush hour and nobody bothered to take a look at it, let alone lend a helping hand. Fortunately, a man in his 60s
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    • 291 4 Verdict The 15-year-old has been placed on probation for 15 months and ordered to do 180 hours of community service NOT everyone copes well under stress. A 15-year-old girl who was stressed over her exams handled it the worst possible way she threw killer
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    • 201 4 LION dancers too scared to give blood were an example of the unfounded fears many people have about giving blood, a donor recruitment workshop heard yesterday. Parliamentary Secretary Chan Soo Sen said the lion dancers declined his request to donate blddd because they were afraid
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    • 415 5  -  by Sarah Ng NICE to have, but no thanks. We don’t need it. That’s the surprising answer you gave us when we asked if you wanted an Internet home, fully wired to the technological' super highway. Three out of four people interviewed in a Streats straw poll
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    • 72 5 Our weather girl says Don't panic if your vision's slightly blurred. It'll be slightly hazy and partly cloudy today. You can also expect showers in the early morning mainly over northern and eastern Singapore. Temperatures will go up to 32 degrees Celsius. High tide will reach 2.9 m at 1.41
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    • Just a minute
      • 52 5 Good news for commuters of Service 70. The evening operation of Service 70, currently plying between Yifi Chii Knnn Tt*rminnl nnH IGeylang Lorong 1 Terminal, will be extended to loop in Marina Centre. The daytime Service 70, plying between Yio Chu Kang and Shenton Way will not
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      • 41 5 Deepavali's round the corner. So don't forget to send cards to all your Hindu friends wishing them a te. Happy Deepavali. And while you're at it, why no, heed down to Serangoon Road to Bsoak I tfiefSj Festival of Lights?
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      • 52 5 If you're feeling a little stressed and need someone to talk \to, call the HeakhLine at 1 1800-223-0313. Dr Aw Soh Choo, a consultant k psychiatrist will be available to i answer all queries ion stress-related m and mental wk health issues 111 today from HI 9am
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  • Streatsmart column
    • 254 6 betweenthelines. mb the digital economy, it will not be enough to compete for the investor's dollar just on account of having a better or more efficient trading or investment regime. New strategies have to be mapped out It is in this context that
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    • 594 6 IT used to be that the PSLE was a necessary evil one got through willy-nilly. My parents’ involvement got no deeper than the occasional “got study or not” and sometimes “don’t study too much ah” when I got too engrossed in my books. These days, parents
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  • Streatsmart regional
    • news scan
      • 120 7 -AFP HONGKONG An elderly man who claimed welfare payments left some HK$lBO million (Ss4o million) when he died. Choi Ching-man, who died aged 72 in late 1996, had a fortune in bank deposits, shares and property but claimed tens of thousands of dollars from Hongkong’s social welfare
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      • 121 7 -AFP TAIPEI An earthquake measuring 4.5 on the Richter scale hit southern Taiwan yesterday, but there were no reports of casualties or damage, seismologists said. The quake struck at 10.36 am local time (10.36 am Singapore time) with its epicentre 25.3 km northwest of Taitung city
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      • 109 7 -AFP JAKARTA Human rights monitors warned Indonesia that its imminent ban on flying separatist flags in the province of Irian Jaya could feed a “vicious circle” of brutal violence. “The ban is a provocation and could well lead to renewed clashes between Indonesian security forces and Papuans,”
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      • 101 7 -AFP JAKARTA Four former leaders of proIndonesia militias, who helped run a campaign of wholesale murder and looting in East Timor last year, have offered to reveal everything they know in exchange for guarantees of safety. In a letter to the UN Security Council, they accused the
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    • 229 7 -AFP BEIJING A Chinese military think tank warned that if Republican candidate George W Bush wins next month’s presidential elections he would undermine the “One China” policy, destabilise the global balance of power and restart the Cold War. “Bush’s position on Washington’s China policy is
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    • 219 7 AP BEIJING Before China sends astronauts to the moon, Chinese robots will explore the lunar surface, mapping out landing sites and places for human exploration. A report by the Xinhua News Agency provides the latest glimpse into China’s secretive space programme as it progresses
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    • 279 8 -AFP ffdonot associate with (gambling bosses). I do not drink with them, I do not play mahjong with them -Vice President Gloria Arroyo MANILA Philippine Vice-President Gloria Arroyo yesterday offered to unify opposition to President Joseph Estrada, facing impeachment over accusations he took bribes
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    • 173 8 -AFP Americans on top, Japanese at the bottom KUALA LUMPUR Malaysians outperform the Japanese but are still pretty sluggish between the sheets, according to the results of an international sex survey released yesterday. The 2000 Durex Global Sex Survey conducted in 27
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    • know or not
      • 15 8 THE opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven. didyouknow.com
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      • 87 8 THE largest whale shark on record got wedged in a fish-trap off Chick Island in the Gulf of Thailand in 1919. The creature was stuck in the trap for seven days. It was so big over 18m long that although the water was more than 9m
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  • Streatsmart global
    • 286 9 -AFP They will resume peace process SHARM EL-SHEIKH US President Bill Clinton announced yesterday that Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat had agreed to end 20 days of spiralling violence and resume the faltering peace process. Spelling
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    • 150 9 -afp LONDON Six people were killed yesterday and scores injured, many seriously, when part of a train derailed and overturned north of London, police said. Police said there were a “significant number” of serious casualties and 80 others slightly injured. The high-speed
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    • web cites
      • 57 9 Have you been accused of being a "rager" of the road kind? Have those journeys to work or school in your car become increasingly colourful in language? If you have answered yes to any of these questions, then maybe it's time for you to test
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      • 56 9 Any Ah Beng road ragers will not hesitate to give road hogs "the bird". So, why do people give the one-finger salute when infuriated? Go to www.mrtraffic.com/thefinger.htm and let Mr Traffic enlighten you with the histo- ry of this universally recognised hand gesture which dates
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    • 110 9 AFP LONDON One in three Britons feels miserable, a survey said on Monday. One in four fears a “hopeless future”, one in three feels “downright miserable”, and one in 10 thinks he or she would be better off dead. A quarter said life was unfair, and more than
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    • 254 10 ’-afp 50 per cent of women who ask to cut their hours or work from home are turned down LONDON The British government is scrapping plans to give mothers the right to return to work part-time after maternity leave, The
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    • 171 10 AFP LONDON An inventor who offered £1 million (552.6 million) to anyone who could crack his jigsaw puzzle is selling his house after someone found the solution, a newspaper reported yesteiday. Christopher Monckton laid down the challenge last year as he launched Eternity,
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  • Streatsmart people
    • 205 12 Reuters OSLO Wedding hopes were dampened in Norway, when Crown Prince Haakon said he would not be getting married any time soon to his live-in girlfriend MetteMarit Tjessem Hoiby. The media had reported on Monday that he and his girlfriend, a former waitress with
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    • 120 12 Reuters LONDON After more than a year in a Myanmar jail, British human-rights campaigner James Mawdsley will finally be going home. The Myanmar authorities had sentenced him to 17 years in prison for handing out pro-democracy leaflets. However, they have now decided to release
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    • 231 12 Reuters NEW YORK Gus Hall, who headed the Communist Party in America for more than 40 years and ran for the presidency four times, has died at the age of 90. A party spokesman said on Monday that Mr Hall, a diabetic, died at Lenox Hill
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    • 230 13 HEAVENLY KING Andy Lau has one thing in common with movie star Jackie Chan. No, Andy did not father a child out of wedlock. The Hongkong heart-throb, like the gongfu star, has made ipr> entry in the Guinness [Book of Records 2001, I reported Lianhe Wanbao yesterday. Jackie
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    • 169 13 MALAYSIAN pop princess Siti Nurhaliza will receive Indonesia’s AMI Sharp Award on Friday. According to Bernama news agency, the popular singer will be the first recipient in the foreign artist category. Siti, who is in Jakarta, narrowly escaped a stabbing attempt on
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    • 148 13 EVER wondered what it would be like to sit on Hongkong pop princess Kelly Chen’s face? Thanks to Japanese website, Excite, you can now experience it. With Kelly’s approval too. Kelly is the spokesperson for Excite, and in a promotional gimmick, her face
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    • 802 14 ail iil*t§B a •Smm «:ss cw rJ r^Aa¥^’; What /5 it with twentysomethings? Do they think they're still young or what? One can understand an early-twentysomething (21? 22?) acting carefree and complacent about the rest of their lives, but a late-twentysomething (28, 29...)? Let it just happen I mean, one
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    • 1069 15 ;v mication tips MARRIAGE SPECIALS PROGRAMMES Supported by the Ministry of Community Development and Sports es the risk of breast cancer for women sre are physiological reasons to rush. life expectancy for Singaporeans is s which means that at 30, two-fifths r life is over.) r Santiago, 31, a website
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  • easyStreats
    • easyStreats fun
      • Article, Illustration
        281 16  -  By Sarah Ng PUT on your swimsuit. Or a raincoat. Or perhaps a pair of shorts. Stand in front of a mirrdr and see how you look. Great? Good. If you think you’ve got IT, we want you. What for? To be our Weather Girl. Streats is
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      • channel scan
        • Today's must-see TV...
          • 61 16 Bpm, TCS 5 When it debuted last week on our local channels, this Emmy-winner proved itself up to all the hype. Malcolm in the Middle is not only funny, its also heart-warming and refreshingly j unpolitically-correct. A Tonight’s episode sees Malcolm and I his brothers in
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          • 55 16 8.30 pm, TCS 8 One of life’s guilty little pleasures. Watch as eight hapless contestants are made to expose their innermost thoughts on national TV, while being traded off like sides of beef to potential life-long mates. Host Mark Lee is particularly good at “suaning” (making fun of)
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          • 49 16 7pm,Sportsdty So, you faithfully followed all the thrills and spills of the recently concluded Olympic Games. Now get k ready for round two k as the Paralympics kick off. Join stars I like Kylie Minogue f as they perform at the grand opening ceremony.
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          • 54 16 10pm, Central This Alfred Hitchcock thriller stars Joseph Cotten as Charley Oakley, a bitter man who has strangled several widows for their fortunes. He’s the object of his niece’s affection till his curious behaviour as well as visits from detectives lead her to realise that her
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          • Article, Illustration
            85 16 9pm, HBO (SCV 60) If you like your villains big and bad, it doesn’t get any better than this. This 1998 movie sees everyone’s favourite Japanese lizard crashing his way through New York and l laying a couple of Ĕ eggs along the way. M Matthew Broderick is H
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    • 265 17 Reuters LOS ANGELES Remember the hoopla when someone stole the Oscars earlier this year and a junk dealer found them in a trash bin? Remember the publicity when he then got a US$5O,OOO (5587,580) reward and an invitation to go to the Academy
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    • 425 18  -  hour by Cara van Miriah SO, when was the last time you watched a live gig? If foreign acts like Robbie Williams, Stephen Gately or even Atomic Kittens spring to mind, no, that was not what I meant. What about local live gigs? I
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    • 417 19  -  by by Yvonne Kwok BRIT band Radiohead is shocked by their US success. The quintet, widely acknowledged as the best band in the world today, recently slammed into the US Billboard charts at No 1 with their fourth album, Kid A. And this is despite
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    • 312 22 Just one question I WILL only take Viagra if there's a necessity If not why should I? Viagra should be taken by women who don't have a fulfilling sex life. But if you are enjoying your sex life,
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    • easyStreats sports people
      • 285 26 -AFP MILAN Eighteen years after leading Italy to its third World Cup victory in Spain many of the leading lights of Enzo Bearzot’s fabled 1982 side are finally coming of age as coaches and administrators. The past week has seen 1 many key
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      • 242 26 Reuters LONDON Liverpool coach Gerard Houllier has told his hattrick striker Emile Heskey to be more selfish and to have more faith in his abilities. Heskey had scored only one goal this season before putting three past Derby County in the 4-0 Premier League
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      • 308 26 -AP SYDNEY With a solemn bow, hands held in a prayer-like clasp at his chest, Cambodia's standing volleyball captain Cha Hok announces to the world his two life ambitions: he wants a Paralympic gold medal and a homeland rid of landmines. Isn’t that
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    • easyStreats sports
      • 260 27 -AFP United needs a win to boost its chances in Champions League LONDON Manchester United could be without England striker Andrew Cole when it faces PSV Eindhoven in a crucial European Champions League clash at Old Trafford (tomorrow, 2.30 am Singapore time). Manager Sir Alex
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      • 283 27 -AP He will be placed on a six-month treatment programme MIAMI Even after several days of meeting doctors, specialists, family and friends, Alonzo Mourning (above) still had some questions about his kidney disease. So he called Sean Elliott. “There’s a lot of questions that he
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      • 204 27 Reuters LONDON Newcastle United moved up to third in the English Premiership after beating North East rival Middlesbrough 3-1 at the Riverside Stadium,yesterday. The visitors took the lead eight minutes from half time when Kieron Dyer found Peruvian international Nolberto Solano down the right wing.
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      • sport scan
        • 81 27 AP RIO DE JANEIRO The interim coach of Brazil’s national soccer team stepped down on Monday, leaving the team coachless ahead of a World Cup qualifier against Colombia next month. Assistant coach Candinho had been expected to continue as coach after Brazil defeated Venezuela 6-0 earlier this
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        • 93 27 Reuters LAUSANNE, Switzerland Germany’s Olympic wrestling champion Alexander Leipold (left) may lose his gold medal after failing a drug test at the I Sydney, Olympic chiefs said. Mongolian freestyle wrestler Oyunbileg Purevbaata also failed a dope test at the Olympics. Leipold won Germany’s first freestyle wrestling
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        • 78 27 Reuters TRIPOLI, Lebanon Underdog Kuwait produced the first upset of the Asian Cup as it surprised South Korea 1-0 with Bashar Abdallah’s first-half goal. This victory eased the pressure in the final phase of the first round for Kuwait when it faces China, which routed Indonesia
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        • 106 27 AP MANCHESTER George Weah (right), the former Fifa world soccer player of the year, may have seen his illustrious career end when he was released from his two-year contract at Manchester City. The 34-year-old Weah, who has scored four goals in nine games for the mid-table
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        • 63 27 AP LONDON Barcelona’s Dutch striker Patrick Kluivert said he will be out of action for up to a month with a hip injury. Barcelona’s team doctor Ricard Pruna said last week he hoped the striker could be back in a fortnight. But Kluivert has ruled himself out of
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    • 315 21 Five winners will each win a Paulaner Brauhaus Sunday Brunch for two and a limited edition STREATS watch the'difference Clue! There are W YOU are our keen eye for the day! There are some elements that are different in the two pictures. Simply count the number of differences. differences between
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  • Page 22 Miscellaneous
    • 498 22 Nr* I/ m Your Daily Horoscope by Kelli Fox at Astrology.com AQUARIUS JAN 20-FEB 18 GEMINI MAY 20 JUN 19 libra SEP 22 OCT 21 Love, or maybe just good healthy lust cuts a wide swathe across your orderly day. Why does it amaze you that life can be so
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  • Page 23 Miscellaneous
    • 314 23 easy (Mldirtf The story so far... Jia Yuzhen is a 69-year-old renowned antique deaier. He buys an ancient screen for US$3 million. A year later, Jet Wack hair sprouts on his previously bald head, and he looks 30 years younger... Has Jia Yuzhen discovered an anti-ageing agent? Or, has he
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    • 155 24 The story so far... Xiao Yuer learned to kill by diverting the enemy with laughter, a tip from little Monk Ha Ha Er. Using that advice, Xiao Yuer killed five dogs, four wolves, two leopard cats and a cub. His tiny body was covered with more than 20 scars. Xiao
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