Today, 21 July 2003

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    13 1 TODAY SHARE YOUR FREE COPY Monday July 21, 2003 MITA (P) 002/11/2002 www.todayonline.com
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    Lock icon Celebrity needlework
    108 1 ALVINTOH In a strong show of support for "Fabric of the Nation", a patchwork project by Channel NewsAsia and the Community Development and Sports Ministry to celebrate Singapore's multiracial diversity and promote unity, 4,000 sewing kits were snapped up by the public in less than two hours at
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    Terror expert becomes target
    683 1  -  Derrick A Paulo Aussie newspaper launches attack on S'pore-based Gunaratna by derrick@newstoday.com.sg POST 911, it is difficult to imagine a man who has been quoted more often on the subject of terrorism than author and academic Rohan Gunaratna. But yesterday, in a scathing attack, a Melbourne-based
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  • HOT NEWS
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      The Singapore screen fantasy
      1124 2 News Comment/Kim-Kyna Tan Money is everything when you want to play catch-up in the global film-making arena MONEY isn't everything if you live under a rock in Utopia. But in the land of the proverbial five Cs, 'money no enough' that infamous moniker of the Jack
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    • IN THE NEWS
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        Lock icon MINISTER LIM'S HOPE
        85 3 Newsßadio 93.8, AFP SINGAPORE'S Environment Minister Lim Swee Say expressed hope yesterday that the recent advertisements put up by Malaysia on the water dispute would spark wider public interest in the bilateral dispute, and that more Malaysians will "hear both sides of the story". Today, Malaysia will
        — Newsßadio 93.8, AFP  -  85 words
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        Lock icon SECRET PLUTONIUM PLANT?
        67 3 Reuters NORTH KOREA may have built a second secret facility for producing weapons-grade plutonium, US officials said on Saturday. The NewYorkTimes reported earlier that sensors on North Korea's borders have detected elevated levels of krypton 85, a gas emitted as spent fuel is converted into plutonium. Computer
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      Lock icon Ingredients of service
      659 3  -  Derrick A Paulo by derrick@newstoday.com.sg Bubo cha cha is a dessert most Singaporeans have sampled, but how many of us are able to tell a foreign guest what ingredients make up this delectable local dish? Well, the staff at Meritus Mandarin would be able to answer this
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      'Expel Myanmar'
      406 4 Country should be booted from Asean if Suu Kyi's not freed: Dr M PUTRAJAYA It is one of the harshest statements yet from an Asean leader on the issue of Myanmar's handling of prodemocracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi. But Malaysian Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohammad had no
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      Special lessons for UK teachers
      234 4  -  -LeeChingWem MRS Patsy Evans and Ms Helen Dyson's trip to Singapore has been a special one The special-school teachers from Park School in Blackpool, England, ended a twoweek exchange programme with the Association for Persons with Special Needs Delta Senior School on Friday with ideas
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      Lock icon Festive welcome for cruise liners
      352 4  -  Pamela Pang Channel News Asia IT WAS a welcome return for the SuperStar Virgo, which docked in her home port of Singapore yesterday after a three-month deployment to Australia. The cruise liner left Fremantle on July 11, stopping in Broome and Darwin before docking at
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      77 3 Innovation Singapore Redefining performance Organisations committed to the NSRS constantly redefine work performance. lilUlllill recognise their people to scale new heights. jiitf*^' More than 5,000 companies are implementing the NSRS. More than J|r^ 100,000 have been trained, assessed, certified. And recognised for achieving high performance standards. j I I fl
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      52 4 XXXW \,jS!SSSt A WW l^&wFft&m&m^A^*~~*^ AmW li^li^k^ Aa. aa^H H^^a Promotion valid for a limited time only. All our prodn 100% vegetable oil. BON-FOOD PTE LTD We serve 10( Australian beef. The BURGER Ki \G jscent Logo Is a trademark ip the BONVESTS GROUP of Burger King Corporation. ©1999,2003 Bur-i
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      5 4 Today Monday July 21, 2003
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      126 5 Give Us Your Heart Today I Fold a heart today and we'll contribute $1 I to the SingTel Touching Lives Fund I 1. Cut out the red rectangle. 3. Fold and unfold to make the 5. Fold the bottom edge to centre 6. Pivot on 'O', fold in the bottom
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  • HOME NEWS
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      In sync with the NDP
      175 6  -  Tor Ching Li by chingli@newstoday.com.sg HOT numbers for National Day Parade (NDP) 2003: 1812, 1837, 1928 Hot tips for 4D punters? Not quite. But the numbers are significant for various reasons. According to show-segment cue master, Lieutenant-Colonel Ong Chia Choong, the fireworks in the grand
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      Lock icon Sign of racial harmony
      150 6  -  Derrick A Paulo A HOST of events yesterday launched Racial Harmony Day, which is today. The events included Internal Security Department (ISD) Heritage Centre's unprecedented decision to reach out to the public at the constituency level. The ISD disclosed information about Singapore's security history some of
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      264 6 BAPMI Executive MBA £l\ University m^ Singapore 9th Intake Register Now! Preview on Thursday, 24 July 2003 at 7.00 p.m. j© MSc Management 1 National University Project Mgmt Finance HRM Info Tech Marketing of leland Dublin My -fr Singapore 12th Intake Starting Soon! t_-a^-**"""'\TNr A POP F *Preview on Tuesday-22
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      160 6 WIN TICKETS YOU can win a pair of NDP preview tickets if you can answer the following questions correctly. 1) Who is the show-segment cue master for this year's NDP? 2) What music will the fireworks in the Grand Finale be synchronised to? 3) What does the show segment consist
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      388 7 business. How 'e'do you want to be? Power talks. (&3j& And now it walks, too. vSHr IBM ThinkPad G4O (*****8A) disaster recovery software bundled in for free Access IBM provides easy access to online C^^^^km\ bk Optional for your IBM ThinkPad: N||jj;i' Cisco Aironet Wireless 802.11b mini PCI Card S^si
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      No service, no tax
      113 8  -  Lee Keng Song IN many countries, a tax and service charge is imposed on purchases at some food outlets. Provided they get what they pay for, people often take the added charges for granted. But when you walk into some restaurants, you do not even get
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      Unusual name for a condo
      114 8  -  Michael Loh Yik Ming IF there is anything worse than being ostentatious, it is being ostentatious and failing to impress. I refer to the condominium project known as Rafflesia, ostensibly because it is near Raffles Institution. As is well known to students of that school,
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      3-point strategy
      267 8  -  John de Payva to help workers become confident, nimble I REFER to Mr Yak Chin Hua's letter, "Treat CPF as sacred cow, not economic tool" (Today, July 17). Many people would share Mr Yak's view that one should defend the CPF, since companies retrench when they are still
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      Public too quick to judge in video incident
      496 8  -  Liane Ng I REFER to the report, "RJC video throws up IT dilemma" (Today, July 16), and the letter, "Why shoot the messenger?" (Today, July 18). I am appalled, not by the behaviour of the student or teacher involved in the incident,
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      29 8 Your letter can also appear on this page. Give your full name and address and write to: Today, 24, Raffles Place, #28-01/06, Clifford Centre, Singapore *****1; Fax:6s-*****217; E-mail: news_.newstoday.com.sg
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
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      S'pore stocks shine
      596 10  -  Vasu Menon Local bourse was region's best performer last week along with Hang Seng by news@newstoday.com.sg WHILE most regional markets took a breather last week, the local bourse rose by 2.3 per cent, making it the best performer in the region, along with Hong Kong's Hang Seng.
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      Lock icon AOL Time Warner sued for $440m
      249 10 -AFP SACRAMENTO California's state employee retirement fund sued AOL Time Warner for US$25O million ($439.75 million), claiming AOL's fraudulent financial statements cost it that much. The California Public Employees' Retirement System, or Calpers, said that AOL inflated its revenues artificially by US$l.7 billion before
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    • Market Watch
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        Lock icon Your S$1 buys
        41 10 SGX Bloomberg Information provided by: USS UK£ Yen HK$ RM Euro Rupiah Baht 0.5682 Peso 0.3572 A$ 67.3097 Indian Rs 4.4318 Won 2.1593 C$ 0.5040 Yuan 4733.36 NZ$ 23.7122 NTS 30.5282 0.8770 26.2721 671.961 0.7983 4.7032 0.9915 19.5864
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        Commodities
        21 10 Sold us$/oi 347.30 iilver us$/oi 4.735 'latinum us$/oi 690 irent crude US$/barrel 31.96 iubber cents/kg 177.75 'aim oil RM/tonne 1365
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      Lock icon $5.2 billion Indon gas deals signed
      207 12 Reuters BALI (Indonesia) Natural-gas supply deals worth US$3 billion ($5.2 billion) were signed in Indonesia on Saturday in a boost for the industry. The deals include one by ConocoPhillips which will serve Singapore's Island Power for 15 years beginning in 2006. The deal involving
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      Lock icon Steel-making nations closer to accord
      200 12 Bloomberg PARIS The United States, the European Union, Japan and other steel-making nations said they moved closer to an accord on ending subsidies in the US$35O billion-a-year ($616 billion) industry, although a final agreement probably will not come until next year. Three days of talks
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      Lock icon Bonds for rail project?
      303 12 Reuters M'sia may issue $6.9b worth: Report KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia may issue bonds worth RMIS billion ($6.9 billion) to finance a mammoth railway project which will be part of the planned transAsia link, reported The Edge. The project requires Malaysia's existing rail network to be electrified
      — Reuters  -  303 words
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      Lock icon Mortgage boom fuels windfall
      321 14 -AFP NEW YORK A US home mortgage boom, driven by rock-bottom interest rates, delivered a windfall to the major US banks, latest profit results show. Citigroup, JP Morgan Chase and Bank of America reported sharp increases in profits for the April to June period. The three
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      Yield play at Singapore Post
      373 14  -  Carmen Lee AMONG the big cap stocks here, Singapore Post has fared well, holding above its IPO price of 60 cents. Recently, it hit a high of 70 cents. Interest in the stock is bolstered by its attractive dividend yield. This has led to a
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      Lock icon The race for a trade deal
      363 24 -AFP Australia in a hurry to seal pact before elections at home and in the US SYDNEY Australia and the United States must settle trade differences to meet their ambitious goal of signing a free trade agreement by the end of the year, Trade
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      Lock icon Tough times, so dealers pay to go back to work
      365 24 -AFP LONDON You know that times are tough for stock market dealers when they start paying to go to work. After several years of market turmoil and thousands of job cuts in the financial services industry, a growing band is
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      Lock icon Weak demand hits telecom equipment manufacturers
      115 24 -AFP PARIS The telecommunications equipment industry continues to battle weak demand for new infrastructure and strong competition for handset sales, causing many to predict that sector growth will appear next year at the earliest. This year is expected to be difficult according to forecasts
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      389 10 SPEAK GOOD ENGLISH PUZZLE R n [*****8 I I I I p m* 6 m ACROSS 7 3 Some people don't have the s 1 1 patience to queue so they (4,2) I 1 1 1 1 1 4 Something that has stopped working is said to be this (6)
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      127 14 /n?pc WEALTH MANAGEMENT B S^^ I I J HONG KONG SINGAPORE TAPIEI Learn about Singapore's first no-expense fund" at a special seminar to introduce the revolutionary APS Alpha Fund Jul 26 and Aug 2 (Sat) 10am 12pm Suntec Tower 5 Register for free only at www.dollarDEX.com Priority for dollarDEX Private
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      351 15 No DIGIC Colour reproduction based on natural colours Xmm Colours attractive to the eye; colours that recreate the atmosphere of a scene; beautiful colours as they reside in our memory. DIGIC aims to reproduce colours so the resulting image conveys «the emotional intent of the photographer. This approach is profoundly
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      136 16 U||l Z~^^~y Protect your toJ Um- children's vision. .^■.^■ifca iLt About half of our children jd HIHEJ^ develop myopia (shortsightedness) y* *f by the age of 12. r AYm Am***lm* mmm AjTjk if ,ffc^ Severe myopia can lead to blindness. f r> ifl Remind your children to take '1/ tf
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      592 24 Every Monday, we will carry a table of dividends declared by companies listed on the Singapore Exchange (SGX). The list, compiled with the assistance of Telekurs Financial, will appear every Monday on our business and finance pages. The new service is in line with the efforts of the editorial team
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  • WORLD NEWS
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      Kelly plot thickens
      422 26 Defence Ministry admits revealing arms expert's name LONDON The plot of the suicide of the British weapons expert, Dr David Kelly, is getting thicker and is likely to be a sword of Damocles hanging precariously over the British government In a dramatic twist of events, the Ministry
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      Handphones may not cause cancer: Study
      149 26 SYDNEY An Australian study has found that long-term mobile phone use may not cause cancer. Researchers at Sydney's St Vincent's Hospital carried out the study by using live human brain cells to test whether long-term mobile phone users had a higher chance of suffering
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      Lock icon Revealing jump
      52 26 AFP photo World famous British streaker Mark Roberts jumps in to the pool during the 10th World Swimming Championships in Barcelona, Spain, on Saturday. Mr Roberts who has been dubbed as the world's most prolific streaker has shed his clothes over 150 times at many sports events around
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      Lock icon Susilo sticks by ethics
      110 26 -AFP JAKARTA Indonesia's Security Minister Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has said it was neither ethical nor timely for him to announce whether he will run in the 2004 presidential race. In an interview published by the Koran Tempo newspaper, Mr Yudhoyono said it was "too premature" to
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      Lock icon Heat off Tung – for now
      201 26 Heat off Tung for now Reuters HONG KONG Beijing's fresh public backing for Hong Kong leader Tung Chee-hwa (picture) may cool political tensions for now but the government must take steps towards more democracy to win back public confidence, analysts said. Chinese leaders threw Mr Tung a political lifeline on
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    • AROUND THE WORLD
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        EXPLOSIONS IN NICE
        34 26 Sixteen people were injured yesterday by two blasts in front of the regional tax and Customs offices in Nice, France. An official told AFP that the injured lived in nearby buildings.
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        Lock icon ANOTHER TORONTO SARS DEATH
        29 26 -AFP A 58-year-old nurse died in Toronto of Sars, bringing Canada's death toll to 41 Currently, there are less than 20 Sars cases in Canada.
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        Lock icon IRAQI SHEPHERD SUES US ARMY
        64 26 -AFP An Iraqi shepherd launched a court case yesterday against US military leaders after a US plane shelled his desert camp. Seventeen family members and 200 sheep were killed. Mr Abud Sarhan, 71, has sued US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and the soldier who led
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        Lock icon COKE BEING SUED IN NZ
        48 26 -AFP An Auckland family is suing Coca-Cola for NZ$ 130,000 ($131,500) after a Coke bottle exploded in their car in 2001. The explosion injured Mr Rasoul Adjani, his wife, Fatima, and son, Jason, 13, the Sunday Star-Times reported. Jason suffers from psychological problems.
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        Lock icon CHINESE CLONE OF OSAMA?
        74 26 -AFP A Chinese man from south-eastern Jiangxi province was sentenced to 1 8 months in jail for claiming to be a cloned version of Osama bin Laden and threatening to derail a passenger train. Li Dade, an interior decorator from Ji'an, made three phone calls on
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  • COMMENTARY
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      Lock icon Pawn shop generation 2
      850 27  -  Shobha Tsering Bhalla CPF can preserve the dignity of those who have lost their jobs ON weekdays, whenever I take the MRT, I have to pass a pawn shop. Unlike many pawn shops, which tend to be tucked away in sleepy corners or forgotten alleyways, this
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      224 27 www.lycos.com.sg MAKE YOUR BODY WORK FOR YOU 26 July 2003 12.45pm -4.45pm I Collyer Room, Raffles City Convention Centre MAKE YOUR BODY WORK FOR YOU is the seminar that will empower you with the knowledge you need to make informed choices about personal health. What you will learn: Holistic Practices
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  • WATZUP?
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      Lock icon Fans love 'silly girl'
      637 28  -  Yong Shu Chiang Jeanette Aw shines after move to Ch 8 by shuchiang@newstoday.com.sg THE ability to look natural while crying is a must for thespians. Queens of Caldecott Hill Zoe Tay, Huang Biren and Xiang Yun have proven themselves masters in this respect Relative newcomer Jeanette
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      Global English
      529 30  -  Jason Chong Singaporeans urged to speak a widely intelligible form of the language by news@newstoday.com.sg ALL of us know the importance of English to students in Singapore. Good English speaking habits remain important for working adults, especially in these tough times when companies are watching the bottom line.
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      Children, tell a story about dayak hornbill carving
      272 30 GIVE your child a lesson on Asian culture in a fun and creative way in the Words and Art Children's Creative Writing Competition this year. This annual competition is aimed at fostering interest in literary works and Asian art, culture and heritage
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    • LIVING & LEARNING
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        Don't score? Don't pay
        534 31  -  Low Shi Ping High Q is committed to the success of each and every student by news@newstoday.com.sg ARE you thinking of pursuing a Master's in Business Administration (MBA) in a world-class university? Chances are you will need a high score on the Graduate Management Admission Test
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    • EAT OUT
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        ' Gulping grasshoppers!'
        581 32  - Gulping grasshoppers!' Karman Tse It's surprises galore at Restaurant J Bar ONCE in a while, you find yourself confronted by a situation that is a challenge. When that happens, you either stay within your comfort zone, or look the challenge in the eye, push the limits and have one more
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    • IN CINEMAS
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        Lock icon J Lo trims her bottom line
        200 33 IMAGES featuring the most famous behind in Hollywood have had to be retouched to its owner's satisfaction. Full-bodied Jennifer Lopez is reported to have demanded that her curvaceous bottom be digitally-reduced for publicity posters of her new movie, Gigli, which show her and beau
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      152 28 ENGLISH PROGRAMMES No Programme Channel Rating 1 SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE-TITANIC (R) Ch 5 13 2 GURMIT'S SMALLTALK Ch 5 9 3 SUNDAY PRIME MOVIE -TITANIC (R) Ch 5 8 4 UNDER ONE ROOF-40th ANN SPECIAL Ch 5 7 5 THEAMAZING RACE 4 Ch 5 6 6 JUST FOR LAUGHS GAGS
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