Today, 24 March 2001

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    6 1 TODAY SjltlirdilY March 24, 2001 Mr&cejtMWUKCO
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    20 1 A Thai traffic cop wearing a mask to draw attention to a road-safety campaign in central Bangkok yesterday. AFP photo
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  • Article
    S'porean couple nabbed
    50 1  -  Bernama JOHOR A Singaporean couple have been detained in Johor Baru on drug charges. The couple were arrested on Thursday in a hotel room, where the police found a packet containing heroin, Ecstasy and other drugs. They face the mandatory death sentence if they are found guilty.
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  • Article
    GST warning
    58 1 THE Inland Revenue has ruled that retailers who continue to fail to show the post-GST price of goods can be fined up to $5,000. In a recent audit of about 250 GST-registered retailers, the IRAS found 30 who failed to display GST-inclusive price tags despite prior reminders. Many
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  • Article
    Doc, please talk more
    577 1  -  Leong Phei Phei Course to help doctors communicate better by ph eiph ei iiewstoday. com. sg OUR men-in-white have a major problem with their bedside manners. And Changi General Hospital hopes to help doctors overcome this communication problem with their patients by holding a course aptly
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    Less money for AMP
    216 1 THE Association of Muslim Professionals (AMP) is going to get less funding from the Government, The Ministry of Community Development and Sports announced yesterday that while it is increasing the matching grant to Muslim organisations from $3.5 million to $4 million, it had also revised the
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    The truth about Fann and 1988 Star Search
    169 1 A CHINESE newspaper created quite a stir among both fans and foes of MediaCorp artiste Fann Wong by claiming that she had lost to Zoe Tay in the first Star Search contest in 1988. On March 8, Shin Min Daily News carried
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  • HOT NEWS
    • Article
      Lock icon Kofi runs again
      211 2 Agencies Popularity may keep him in top job at UN NEW YORK UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has announced he will run for a second five-year term of office. If, as expected, he is granted another term it will mean that Africa will have headed the organisation
      – Agencies  -  211 words
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      Search on for heavyweight PAP candidates
      141 2 PRIME Minister Goh Chok Tong says the PAP has already identified 25 new candidates for the coming General Election. Speaking to reporters during his visit to Hungary, he clarified that his comments two days ago on the possible time frame for the next General
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      USS Kitty Hawk a symbol of close ties
      116 2 DIGNITARIES visited Changi Naval Base yesterday for a tour of the 86,000 tonne US aircraft carrier, the USS Kitty Hawk. Mr Peter Ho, First Permanent Secretary of Defence, Rear-Admiral Lui Tuck Yew and Mr Herbert W Schulz, Charge d'Affaires of the US
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      Lock icon Yet another blow
      262 3 -AFP Sino-US ties hit by missing Chinese chief arms negotiator BEIJING The reported defection of a Chinese People's Liberation Army {PLA) officer to the United States is expected to once again strain the already sensitive diplomatic relations of the two countries. China said the government is investigating
      -AFP  -  262 words
    • Article
      Hong Leong restructures its finance operations
      155 3 HONG LEONG FINANCE (HLF) and Singapore Finance are to form separate finance and property units under a restructuring scheme announced last night. The transaction will result in Singapore Finance doubling its size to become the biggest finance company here, while the restructured Hong Leong
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      Small screen's big success
      131 3 WITH only three years' experience in programming strategies and three more in airtimes sales, vice-president for MediaCorp TV's Ch 5, Miss Alice Tan, has been voted as one of the top 25 most influential broadcasters in Asia by Television Asia, the region's authoritative trade magazine for
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      Lock icon Facelift for landmark
      360 4  -  Chelsea Chua 38-year-oldTaman Serasi centre to go for road by rep o rter@ne wsto day. c o m.sg BOTANIC Gardens will be getting a $35 million facelift at the expense of a beloved Singapore landmark, Taman Serasi Hawker Centre. Cluny Road will be realigned, with two lanes,
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      TB down but still too high
      316 4  -  Ruth Kam by rep o rt er@ne wsto day. c o m. sg THE incidence of tuberculosis (TB) in Singapore has declined over the past few years, but it is still much higher than in many developed countries. Last year there were 47 new
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    • Article
      'Worst' drug case
      122 4 "THIS is one of the worst cases I've seen," a Subordinate Court judge told a man pleading guilty to drug trafficking and possession charges yesterday. On Jury 27 last year, CNB officers made a morning raid at Le Charming Hotel in Geylang. Room 503 held a jackpot
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      The security thieves
      97 4 THEY were security guards with a hidden agenda. They stole from the very company they were keeping watch over. Security guards Rosli Sutargi, 30, and Sandra Sagran, 45, pleaded guilty in the High Court yesterday to one charge of theft and another charge of committing mischief by
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      114 4 READ 0N... Media Realities Cost and competition are major factors/6 What's a bear market? Basically, a mood at the exchange/9 Enter the bulls On bargain hunting and short covering/10 Bizarre twist to murder Headless body may not be that of journalist/ 14 Bigger bang needed Singapore's competitiveness depends on its
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  • LETTERS
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      Media realities
      217 6  -  Narayana Narayana Cost and competition are major factors IT IS difficult to disagree with Mr See Leong Kit's idealistic views on the duties and responsibilities of the Press. Although Mr See's comments are in a local context, the Press, in general, try fiercely to maintain their freedom and
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      House locked, keys returned but meter reading up
      153 6  -  Abdul Gafaor I WAS staying at Blk 132, #05-1340 Jalaii Bukit Merah. On Dec 5 last year, I submitted my water meter readings of *****, gas (*****) and electricity (*****) to the PUB and told them to disconnect supplies and close my
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      How about NS nurses?
      138 6  -  Aloyskire Ng THE Ministry of Health (MOH) is facing a major shortage of nurses in Singapore. To counter this problem, many suggestions and recommendations were proposed. The Ministry of Manpower (MOM) has raised the ceiling for employing foreign nurses in the Institute of Mental Health. But
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      Madonna video banned
      267 6  -  Rachel Lo Considered too violent to be telecast by rac hel® newstoday. com. sg HOW does it feel to be a girl living in the vio-lence-filled society of today? This is what Madonna is trying to address in her new single What It Feels Like For a
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      Police bust gambling syndicate, 23 arrested
      157 6 THEY had an escape plan but they got caught anyway. The operators of a gambling syndicate placed a stepladder under the kitchen window of a gambling den along Lim Teck Kim Road, but it was removed by officers from Central Police Division who were
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      Accident boy dies
      82 6 THE 12-year-old boy who was hit by a lorry while crossing a road in New Upper Changi Road on Mar 19 died in hospital three days later. Teo Zong Yi was at a zebra crossing in front of Blk 24 at about 7.40pm when the accident happened.
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      What about those who have 4 kids?
      363 7  -  Anizah Binte Abdul Karim I HAVE read a lot about benefits, schemes and grants implemented by the Government baby bonus, CPF Top-Up, just to name a couple. As a mother of three with a fourth due in August, I am speaking on behalf
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      No disparity in Tamil language exam
      226 7  -  Mrs Chan fee Kun WE refer to the letter, "Language Exam Disparity", by M Jaya (Today, March 19). We wish to clarify that all the 'B' syllabus examinations, namely the Malay language (ML) 'B', Chinese Language (CL) 'B' and Tamil Language (TL) 'B' examinations,
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
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      Book fight
      552 8 As retail stores here pop up all over WITH bookstores popping up left, right, and centre in Singapore, you'd be forgiven for thinking that business is booming. Yet many industry watchers believe that it's more a shakeout that's on the cards. Corporate Watch finds out. It was not
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      Mastering the fine art of investment
      98 8 FOR seven weeks, some 60 retail investors learned the fine art of stock market investments. The course, conducted by the Securities Investors Association Singapore (Sias), taught the participants how to invest wisely and get the best returns from the stock market. Course participant Mr
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      Lowest consumer price rise in months
      125 8 SINGAPORE'S consumer prices rose at the slowest annual rate in seven months in February as prices of food, transport and communications dropped. The consumer price index rose 1.3 per cent in February from a year earlier. This was lower than the two per cent
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      Lock icon 3.7% jobless in Taiwan
      81 8 Bloomberg TAIPEI Taiwan's jobless rate rose to a record in February as falling overseas demand forced manufacturers to shed workers and companies moved production to China to cut costs. Unemployment rose to 3.7 per cent from January's 3.5 percent, seasonally adjusted, the Directorate-General of Budget, Accounting
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      One in six bank on Net
      229 8 A SURPRISING one in six Singaporeans is involved in Internet banking. This was shown in a study by Wirthlin Worldwide Asia, a strategic research and consultancy firm. Convenience, efficiency and speed are the reasons cited by the users for banking online. The survey showed
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      GM launches S'pore bond
      81 8 GENERAL Motors Acceptance, a funding vehicle of General Motors Corporation, has launched a $100 million fiveyear fixed rate bond issue here. The parent company is one of the world's largest automotive and in-line vehicle manufacturers. Mr Lui Chong Chee, Managing Director of Citicorp Investment Bank (Singapore),
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      What's a bear market?
      520 9 Basically, a mood at the exchange HI, it's me again, Alfredo, from Sage Cafe. All the cafe chat this week was about the powerful grip of bear claws on the stock markets. What exactly is a bear or bull market anyway? I decided to call on
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  • MARKET NEWS
    • Enter the bulls
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        On bargain hunting and short covering
        551 10 THE market has been oversold for a while and has failed to sustain a relief rally in the past few attempts as the party was spoiled by waves of indiscriminate selling both here and in the US. The bulls seemed to have won a
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        Little interest or activity
        438 10 KUALA LUMPUR After much volatility seen on the Malaysian market the past few days, the last trading day of the week saw a tired bourse, with little interest or activity. This is not surprising, considering the long weekend coming up, with next Monday being a holiday
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  • WORLD NEWS
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      Lock icon Police to grill govt critics
      279 11 Reuters Anwar's wife scheduled for questioning KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian police will grill government critics over their remarks on the racial clashes early this month which killed six persons. Mrs Wan Azizah Wan Ismail, wife of Malaysia's jailed former finance minister Anwar Ibrahim, and head of
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      US schools venue for violence
      129 11 LOS ANGELES Schools are becoming a familiar venue for violence in the United States as depressed students resort to guns to vent their frustration. After a recent spate of shooting sprees in California schools, an 18-year-old student wielded a shotgun and a handgun, and again
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      Lock icon Pakistan to back revolt
      79 11 Agencies KARACHI Pakistan, saying nuclear rival India was not responding to its peace overtures, vowed to continue backing a Muslim revolt against its neighbour. Pakistani President Mohammad Rafiq Tarar issued the statement during Pakistan's National Day, amid reports that Indian President K R Narayanan and Prime
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      Lock icon File against injunction
      94 11 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR Sabah's chief minister, Mr Osu Sukam yesterday asked the state's Attorney-General's Office to file an application to set aside an injunction filed by three Umno members. The members challenged the appointment of Mr Osu's successor, Mr Chong Kah Kiat, saying it was illegal and
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      Lock icon TV3 sportscaster Ras Adiba attacked
      65 11 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's TV3 sportscaster Ras Adiba Radzi was given outpatient treatment after being assaulted by four men in front of her house in Taman Maluri early Thursday. The men, who were on two motorcycles, attacked her as soon as she came out of
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    • Article
      Playing hardball?
      350 12 Bush ignores concerns, Moscow prepares 'painful' response WASHINGTON The United States yesterday tried to play down its ongoing espionage row with Russia by insisting that the expulsion of 51 Russian diplomats would not affect their ties. US President George Bush ignored concerns that the fragile US-Russian relations would
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      Lock icon Mir completes mission
      187 12 -AFP KOROLYOV, Russia Mir space station yesterday completed its mission, described as unprecedented in space history. "Mir has completed its triumphant mission," said an announcer at Mission Control outside Moscow. Russian Mission Control officials said Mir plunged to earth yesterday after they fired engines to nudge it
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      Prof Tommy Koh's three world scenarios
      246 12 HONG KONG There are three possible scenarios of how the world could develop this century, says Singapore's Ambassador-at-large Professor Tommy Koh at the Chinese University of Hong Kong on Thursday. The first is one dominated by the US while the second has ttwo power
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      Lock icon Protests stifle Indian parliament yet again
      155 12 -AFP NEW DELHI India's parliament adjourned amid pandemonium yesterday. For the eighth consecutive working day, both houses were adjourned within minutes, as opposition MPs demanded that Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee's government resign over the arms bribery scandal. It was the last day of
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      Lock icon China blast fugitive arrested
      112 12 Reuters BEIJING Jin Ruchao (right), the deaf fugitive wanted for a string of explosions in an urban residential district in Shijiazhuang, in Hebei province, has been arrested. Police caught Jin, who is in his 40s, at the southern Chinese city of Beihai, which borders Vietnam. He
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      Lock icon Napster back in court
      274 13 Reuters Failed to remove copyrighted songs LOS ANGELES A music industry trade group yesterday said it will file a complaint in court next week saying Napster has failed to comply with an injunction requiring it to strip copyrighted songs from its directory. "It's clear that Napster
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      Lock icon Daylight robbery
      110 13 AFP MOSCOW A 19th-century painting by French artist Jean-Leon Gerome was stolen during busy hours of the day on Thursday, prompting security guards to search all of the Hermitage Museum's visitors and employees, news agencies reported. Unknown thieves cut the painting named Pool in a Harem out of
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      Thai PM backs shake-up of airline bosses
      132 13 BANGKOK Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra yesterday threw his weight behind the move to force Thai Airways International's (THAI) board of directors to resign. The board is set to step down on Apr 1, Mr Thaksin expressed his support for Deputy Communication Minister Pracha
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      Lock icon Bizarre twist to murder
      332 14 -AFP Headless body may not be that of journalist's KIEV Shock and disbelief spread through Ukraine's political circles yesterday, after new DNA evidence suggested that a headless body at the centre of a murder scandal rocking the government, might not be that of dissident journalist Georgy
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      Lock icon Child's innocent grief
      45 14 -AFP photo A young boy caressing the face of his dead father jitsl before the funeral on Thursday in Kriva Palanka, near the Macedonian capital of Skopje. The police officer was shot dead during an attack in an Albanian-majority market area there.
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      Lock icon Five hurt as scaffolding erected for Oscar ceremony falls
      102 14 Reuters LOS ANGELES Five workers were injured when scaffolding being erected for Sunday's Oscar ceremony collapsed yesterday, but organisers said the show would go on as scheduled. Two of the injured were on the scaffolding when a 12.2 m structure built
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      Lock icon Cartoon legend Hanna dies
      56 14 Reuters CALIFORNIA Animation legend Mr William Hanna, the cofounder and chairman of the Hanna Barbera Studios died on Thursday at the age of 90, Warner Brothers said. Mr Hanna who helped make such cartoon characters as Huckleberry Hound, Yogi Bear and the Fiintstones household names, died
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      Lock icon Canadian minister's racist accusation
      223 14 Reuters OTTAWA It's hard to imagine how you could land in trouble for denouncing racism, but that's just what Canadian cabinet minister Hedy Fry has managed to do. Ms Fry, the ruling Liberal Party's secretary of state for multiculturalism, caused an uproar in Parliament on Wednesday
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      Lock icon Thai addicts to face military training
      86 14 AFP BANGKOK Drug addicts in Thailand cleared of trafficking charges will be sent to a rehabilitation programme that includes military-style boot camp. The plan comes in the wake of revisions to Thai drug laws that are intended to distinguish drug abusers from traffick- ers,
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      Lock icon Ireland latest victim of animal disease
      171 14 Agencies DUBLIN The foot-and-mouth crisis reached Ireland yesterday and spread in the Netherlands as measures to contain it proved inadequate. Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern told a sombre Parliament that sheep on a farm in Louth, near the border with Northern Ireland, had tested
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  • COMMENTARY
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      Bigger bang needed
      728 15  -  Steven Ooi by steve n@ ne wsto day. c o ra. sg Singapore's competitiveness depends on its move towards value-creation Value-added. How many times have Singaporeans heard that term? It is an obsession, just like "upgrading" and "A-stars" and other catchwords in the lingo of the Republic
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  • RELAX
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      Lock icon Bad boy or bad man?
      463 16  -  Rachel Lo "Nicholas has become more mature in spite of his tender age by ra chel newstociay. com. sg Hong Kong bad boy, Nicholas Tse, may not look like his tender age of 20, nor does he sing songs most 20-year-old Asian singers are singing,
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      Lock icon It's a tight race
      303 17 Reuters Hollywood may split the highest honours This year's battle for the Oscars, held in Los Angeles, has turned into a suspense-filled Hollywood cliffhanger. Except for Julia Roberts, who is headed for a coronation, there seem to be no clear front-run-ners. Nobody knows if Gladiator is
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      My Oscar picks
      963 25  -  David Ngiau The race is wide open, which makes it even more interesting by david@newstQday.com.sg The Academy Awards are upon us, airing here on Monday at 9am on Channel 5. And I'm still scratching my head. So are most of my colleagues, apparently, as they've yet to
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  • Page 18 Miscellaneous
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      1151 18 SATURDAY LISTINGS RADIO HIGHLIGHTS Rocketman ■EflP^^S!n^9HF;S SAFFC vs Home 93.8 FM 1 3fc- y^ SportsGty, 7pm A goofy computer expert iß** i VS» All about Food fiy w*^l possible Im, J -Ofta The dash of the titans. 10-11 am mhfe*T% choice to replace an ail- Tit V'■ After disappointing starts
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      852 19 Bichhoo ~iffi Tonight in Person With m Vasantham Central, Mr Tana Wee Sung f\^ A 10.15 pm This movie is about Jeeva, a hired killer with a haunted past. Tonight In Person's host is none MORNING His neighbour Kiran's father other than Drjannie Tay, manag- 6.00am Graphic Headlines deals in
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      1032 20 SUNDAY LISTINGS RADIO HIGHLIGHTS Nixon 11 Sunshine Cops K*l SfrS 9(0 d EM results announcement i«.J(>^ I every weekend at A controversial portrait m J^L Selected to join the 7,30pm. of the US politician 'Sunshine Cops'project, Music From and president, present- \m*'&9^ policemen 1120 and Srarwind Studios 8-11pm ed as
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