Project Eyeball, 13 September 2000

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    11 1 projecteyeball. eyeball.asial.com.sg Mita (p) 077/02/2000 Wednesday, September 13, 2000 80 CENTS
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      160 1 LINKS $3.4 million bid for F***edCompany Bids are pouring in by the millions of dollars for the gossip website, and its founder says he will sell the popular domain name if the “price is right”. See Page 10 Interested in making a bid? http://cgi.ebav.com/ awcgi/eßaylSAPl.dll./ Viewltem&item=*****l4s6 i f l u
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      281 1 Stolen goods? Software companies say that buying pirated software is no different from buying stolen goods, and they liken it to paying less for a stolen car smuggled into Singapore. They want people who buy them to be punished. f V Vt -4 tv m Ail: a J* V 0
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  • News & Views
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      Lock icon QUICKIE
      193 2 THIS man just chose the wrong job to sleep on: burglary. A thief who had broken into a hospital in Madrid fell asleep on an ergonomic chair, only to wake up to the sight of police officers. The 27-year-old thief, who had prised open a large metal box in
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      Lock icon Pasar malam pirates sail on
      477 2  -  Police checks don’t deter them By Andrew Chin andrewc@sph.com.sg THE heartland pirates are alive and well, despite spot-checks made by police. At the Toa Payoh Central pasar malam near Block 187, they were still hawking their goods with impunity when Eyeball checked at 4 pm
      Mike Lee  -  477 words
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      Lock icon WHAT THE AUTHORITIES SAT
      92 2 7 have been informed that at this point of time, the spot checks have not revealed any illegal software Davinder Singh MPfor Bishan Toa Payoh GRC, at 2 pm ‘lt is the PA’s long-standing policy of not allowing grassroots events connected with the PA to sell
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    • Ground ZERO
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        Lock icon Psst, would you buy
        1127 3  -  By Eugene Wee eugenew@sph.com.sg CALL this a trick question: Would you pay more than $3OO for Windows ME when a pirated copy is available for $10? If the answer is yes, you have deeper pockets than most. Or you hold yourself to a higher moral standard
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      Lock icon You only have to say ‘I do’
      834 4  -  SDU aims to serve as a one-stop marriage centre •Wedding venue complete with Internet cafe •Solemnisation Marriage counselling •Reaching undergraduates By Sue-Ann Chia sueann@sph.com.sg THE new Social Development Unit (SDU) has given “leading up the garden path” a different meaning: It is prepared
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      Lock icon From bust to boom
      1008 6  -  By Desmond Wong Desmond Wong The Phoenix Awards 2000 was started to recognise technopreneurs who had clawed their way out of failure to build successful businesses. This is the first time they are being commended. The organisers, led by the National Science and Technology Board, will
      – Desmond Wong  -  1,008 words
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      Lock icon Tot dies from foot and mouth disease
      230 8 Childcare centre closed as precaution A TWO-YEAR-OLD from the Cutie Kids Playhouse died of suspected hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD), and there are four other children down with the contagious diseases at the childcare centre. Baby boy Lam Rui Qi was admitted
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      Lock icon What’s your problem, Dino? ‘Doc, I’m extinct’
      87 8 World-renowed paleontologist Dr Robert Bakker is mad about dinosaurs. He fell in love with the extinct giants at the age of io and now, at 55, is adjunct curator of the University Museum at the University of Colorado. He was also a consultant
      Alphonso Chan  -  87 words
    • Local LOG
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        Lock icon Haze may be back soon
        174 8 BRACE yourself, the haze may be back. Satellite pictures have shown a “significant increase” in the number of hotspots in central and southern Sumatra in the past few days, with smoke plumes being observed in some of those areas. The Environment Ministry (ENV) and the
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        Lock icon Visitors from Asean
        56 8 from slash-and-burn forest fires many started illegally to clear Indonesian land blanketed large parts of South-east Asia, taking a heavy toll on health and tourism. Delegates of the Asean Inter-Parliamentary Organisation paying a courtesy call on President S R Nathan and the First Lady. An Istana garden
        Dominic Ong  -  56 words
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        Lock icon Cabby dies after hornet attack
        115 8 A 51-YEAR-OLD taxi driver died after being stung by a swarm of hornets. Chuang Lip Keng was waiting in Marina South for his friends on Monday afternoon to go fishing when he was attacked. He managed to call the police on his cellphone before he
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        Lock icon Need a short-term PC? Try iStation
        223 8 IF YOU are an entrepreneur who does not wish to work from home or rent a full-time office, and if you happen to stay in or near Tampines, here is some good news for you. NTUC Income has come up with what it calls
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        Lock icon Timeshare firms still playing dirty
        169 8 TIMESHARE companies are changing their names to escape the stigma of blacklisting and using physical threats to collect “unpaid” debts, said the Consumer Association of Singapore (Case) yesterday. Case said that since it set up a hotline this month, 50 per cent of the calls
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      Lock icon Shopping with other people's money
      436 9  -  Errand service saves workers time By Joanna Lim joanna@sph.com.sg SURE, Janice Tan’s list of work duties go on and on. But there is one thing that always brings a smile to her face she gets to buy something she likes with someone else’s money. Don’t
      Dominic Ong  -  436 words
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      Lock icon Dancing on the dead
      84 10 Young residents of the southern city of Oswiecim, Poland, seem oblivious to the history of their surroundings while dancing at a new discotheque last Sunday. The disco opened in August on the grounds where a former tannery was located. It is the place where prisoners of
      AP  -  84 words
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      Lock icon Bids pour in as gossip site goes up for auction
      451 10 F***edCompany founder will sell if ‘price is right’ NEW YORK Ironically, F***edCompany, the dotcom gossip site which runs a dotcom dead pool, where surfers compete to identify Internet companies that are most likely to fail, is up for sale. No,
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      Lock icon That’s not all, folks – interactive cartoons now online
      443 10 That’s not all, folks interactive cartoons now online CHARTCTERS MIMIC HUMAN RESPONSES NYT NEW YORK In an effort to fuse entertainment, education and artificial intelligence, a company in Massachusetts is starting a website featuring interactive cartoon characters that mimic human responses. Zoesis Studios hopes to create a new medium of
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      Lock icon Abused and tortured for your benefit
      526 11 Quality testing of mobile phones is taken to the extreme AP ILLINOIS The men in polo shirts don’t look angry. But here in an underground chamber they are frying, pounding, dropping, squashing, freezing and otherwise whaling away on one of the world’s most beloved
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      142 11 ifufii iiifi m m ii wlw gwmm Each phone is dropped “at least hundreds” of times from varying but undisclosed heights on to steel, tile and concrete. At a time, 32 phones are loaded into an oven. After being baked, they are frozen. In the Dust Room, fine-grained dust from
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      Lock icon Young smokers get hooked fast
      304 11 TOBACCO THREAT AP LONDON Children who experiment with cigarettes can become physically hooked on tobacco faster than people think. Scientists have confirmed a suspicion held by some smokers but never proven: It takes just a few cigarettes to develop an addiction. Research reported yesterday in
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      Lock icon Soldier bought fatigues for cult
      275 12 AL-MA’UNAH CASE Wires KUALA LUMPUR A Malaysian soldier yesterday testified that he bought army fatigues and camouflage gear used by members of a Muslim cult to raid two heavily guarded armories in northern Malaysia. Hiezir Zulkifli, an army lance corporal, was the first witness in
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      Lock icon Hostages whisked off to hideout
      578 12 Kidnappers escaped in powerful speedboat bought with ransom money Wires JOLO Muslim rebels have taken the three men they kidnapped from a Malaysian dive resort, Pandanan, to their remote Philippine hideout. But the Philippine government is considering using force to stop the rebels once and
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      Lock icon Nagoya besieged
      241 13 City suffers most rainfall ever TOKYO Flooding and landslides from Japan’s worst torrential rains in a century killed at least seven people, forced 100,000 to flee their homes and compelled the nation’s biggest carmaker Toyota to stop production. Authorities in the major city of Nagoya ordered about 140,000
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    • World WIDE
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        236 13 AFP JAKARTA The Indonesian government yesterday said defiantly that it would refuse to meet a UN Security Council mission when it arrives next week to probe the killings of three UN staff in West Timor. “Today’s Cabinet meeting has decided that the Indonesian government
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        235 13 AP MOSCOW In a dispute over unpaid bills, a Russian utility company cut power to a strategic missile base, where officers responded by sending troops to capture a power station, officials said yesterday. Government officials harshly criticised the power company for the blackout,
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        120 13 AFP KIEV An assassination attempt against Russian Pte'sident Vladimir rrouha' '> tuodE but; bo r ni Putin was foiled last month at a summit of ex-Soviet nations in Yalta, said the head of Ukraine’s security services, Leonid Derkach. He said the Ukrainian law enforcement authorities
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        135 13 AFP BANGKOK Some 400 rice farmers from the northeast protested against the introduction of genetically-modified (GM) crops to Thailand. Thai farmers and the public are concerned about GM crops because there is still a lack of in-depth research on the effects of genetic modification
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        Lock icon Russian minister: Best to leave Kursk at the bottom
        145 13 AP MOSCOW Russia’s atomic energy minister said yesterday it would be best to leave the sunken nuclear submarine Kursk at the bottom of the Barents Sea, warning that “carelessness” could pose an environmental threat. “From the point of view of nuclear
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      179 15  - BIZ SITE OF THE DAY www.sp21.com Francis Kan WOULD you like to make the whole process of buying or selling less of the dreaded chore that it is? That’s now possible by using sp21’s one-stop solution for the property market. Like other sites of its kind, this one provides property
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      84 15 Bulls Bears Straits Times Index (STI) Top 3 Active VOLUME CENTS SingTel 14,990,000 286.0 Ipco 13,794,000 505 East Tech 8,70,000 121.0 Top 3 Gainers CENTS JSHSOOUSS 287 15 5.5 SingTel 10 287 11 4.0 SingTel 100 287 H 4.0 Total number of gamers: 66 Top 3 Losers CENTS Venture 1950
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      Lock icon Shell spies keep tabs on prices
      587 15  -  Company says there’s no cartel By Francis Kan francisk@sph.com.sg IT COULD be a scene from an edge-of-the-seat thriller movie. The stars: The innocentlooking guys at your neighbourhood Shell station, who fill up your petrol tanks and sell you cigarettes. At least that’s the part
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      Lock icon ‘WE’RE NOT OVERCHARGING’
      281 15 SHELL yesterday admitted that it did take longer to lower pump prices than to raise them an accusation that has been levelled at it repeatedly by the public. But the company rejected claims that it was overcharging Singapore motorists. How have local petrol prices risen compared to
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      Lock icon Napster usage has soared four-fold since Feb
      223 16 ILLEGAL‚ SAYS GOVT AP NEW YORK Despite the uncertain legality of the Napster online music-sharing service, the number of people using it more than quadrupled in just five months, officials said on Monday. That made Napster the fastest growing software application ever recorded
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      Lock icon Power clicking
      599 16 KodakS DC4BOO is perfect for the camera enthusiast who's also a control freak on the side, as MIKE LEE (mikelee@sph.com.sg) discovers. KODAK’S latest digital camera is aimed at the hobbyist who’s a bit of a control freak. Most existing digital cameras offer a few basic colour-balance settings, but
      AFP; Dominic Ong  -  599 words
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      Lock icon English to dominate Net
      205 17 Keyboards curtail use of Asian languages, says Bill Gates AP MELBOURNE English will remain the language of the Internet despite its skyrocketing use in Asia. So said Microsoft chairman Bill Gates said on Tuesday. He was commenting on a report released on Monday by consultants Deloitte
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    • Tech FILES
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        Lock icon Magazine covers local R&D scene
        75 17 NOW you can know about the latest developments in Internet technologies or gene therapy. Innovation, the first magazine to report on the research and development (R&D) scene in Singapore was launched yesterday. So if you are itching to know about the latest breakthrough in semiconductor
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        Lock icon Siemens’ new phone has built-in MP3
        107 17 SIEMENS has scored a technological breakthrough with the SL4S, a mobile phone that comes with a built-in MP3 player. With dimensions of 10.5 x 4.2 x 1.7 cm and weighing at 88 grams, it is a lot smaller and lighter than Siemens’ most recent
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        Lock icon IBM to build Linux centres in Asia
        97 17 IBM says that it will invest US$2OO million (***** million) to build Linux development centres in Asia, according to CNet. Linux is an operating system which has frequently been touted as an alternative to Windows. Some versions of Linux are available for download
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        Lock icon The goose that flew only once
        62 17 The Spruce Qoose, the world’s largest plane, being prepared to be moved to the Captain Michael King Smith Evergreen Aviation Educational Institute in the United States. The wooden transport plane, built for World War 11, has only ever been taken to the skies once.
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        Lock icon Speech Works and Palm team up
        113 17 A REPORT carried by CNet (http://news.cnet.com) says that Palm, the market leader for personal digital assistants (PDAs), has entered a partnership with Speech Works, a company that develops speech-recognition technologies. The partnership seeks to provide phone-based access to information stored online through Palm’s Any
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        Lock icon Privacy not an issue with Net shoppers
        68 17 DOES anybody bother to read the privacy policies of websites before proceeding to surf? Probably not. ZDNet (http://www.zdnet .com) reports that only a fraction of online shoppers read privacy policies before sharing personal data like names or card numbers. Only nine out of
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        Lock icon Boy crashes car he bought online
        72 17 TALK about the perils of online shopping. A 15-year-old boy in Florida is under investigation after crashing a car he is suspected of buying online. According to The Register (http://www.theregister.co.uk), the boy bought the car, a Plymouth Neon, by using a service that lets
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      Lock icon Better uses for cash
      426 18 ‘Big telco payout’ (Sept 12) HOW do you want Sing Tel and Starhub to spend the $2 billion windfall, given to them as compensation for the early liberalisation of the local telco market? Eyeball readers’ wishlist: CHILD CARE, OR NURSES I’M SHOCKED. It seems quite a
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      Lock icon Fulfil personal dreams yourself
      270 18 FANZ ‘Where’s the money for adventure sports?* (Sept 12) FLYING and shooting are relatively low-profile activities (note I didn’t say sports), compared to basketball and soccer. There’s no point asking for sponsors to put their money into activities in which I think only the privileged and
      FANZ  -  270 words
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      Lock icon DON’T WAIT FOR FUNDING
      80 18 I HAVE a suggestion for funding. Participants of low-profile sports can create a website where they share as much information about the sport as possible. Alternatively, get a TCS actor/actress to participate in the sport (for free) and then post some publicity digital pictures on site.
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    • Single’s SAY
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        Lock icon Get women on top
        514 19  -  By Soh Wen Lin wenlin@brandeis.edu WANTED: a few good men not by single women to marry, but by Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew. Men to hand the torch of running our country to. It seems that these days, much to SM Lee’s dismay, the men the
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      Lock icon What really happened at Los Alamos?
      448 19 NEW YORK TIMES EDITORIAL THE case of Wen Ho Lee, which largely collapsed last weekend with his agreement to plead guilty to a single felony count, must be reviewed by an independent examiner to determine if the government used racial profiling or other unfair
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      169 9 NEC Monitors Imagination. Sol uti ons. lil MM rcwpu JSSS3I 99 2000 ■--tfEWBOK flWftROsN u:\lmK WARDS w The complete range of LCD CRT monitors follows the tradition of quality and reliability set by previous generations of NEC award-winning monitors to give you peace of mind. NEC monitors are designed for
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      27 9 If what your company does tops Andersen Consulting’s Concierge, or has interesting work practices, we want to know about it. Tell us what you do at asial.com.sg
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      37 10 http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/ eßaylSAPl.dll?Viewltem&item=*****l4s6 The link to the eßay site where FC is being auctioned http://news6.thdo.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/ business/newsid%sFs93ooo/*****7.5tm There was a US$lO-million bid for year2ooo.com. But it was fake. http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-*****85.html But someone else did fork out US$7.5 million for business.com.
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      19 11 Find out more about nicotine addiction and smoking at these sites: http:// www.kickbutt. org/learn/index.html http://www.quitnet. org/ qn-main.html http://www. thetobaccolawyers.com/
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      108 14 iiimarkets www.asiaonemarkets.com c> m MM Before investing in angora frog farming, log on to asiaonemarkets.com Asia’s new one-stop investment site has all the tools you need to make smarter investment decisions. Brought to you by SPH Asia One and The Business Times, it gives you credible and up-to-the-minute information on
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      32 16 Visit Napster at http:// www.napster.com To go to the Media Metrix website, type in http://www.media metrix.com For some Napster tips and tricks, visit The Ultimate Napster Resources Site at http://pzcommuni cations.com/napster/ main.htm
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      40 17 You can now buy your car, arrange for loan financing, or get your car repaired, all online. Read about the launch of a local one-stop auto e-centre, and how the auto-industry is moving online in a big way, at com.sg/Eyeball/Tech
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      37 18 What do you think of the telcos’ compensation? Or do you want to discuss other issues in today’s paper? E-mail us at: feedback (<ieyeball.com.sg or join our forum at http://eyeforum. asial.com.sg. Selected views are published here daily.
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  • EyeSport
    • Sydney 2000
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        750 20 Vitriolic anti-dope crusader Talbot tells bis swim team to keep mum SYDNEY Now that IS rich. Don Talbot, swimming’s rent-a-quote when it comes to thrashing drug cheats, has ordered his athletes to steer clear of sinister talk. The head coach of Australia’s Olympic swimming team can always
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        Lock icon Mark Spitz predicts Aussie pool domination
        315 20 SYDNEY Swim legend Mark Spitz yesterday predicted that “a lot” of world records would fall at the Olympic pool. He is quite relaxed about saying that, mainly because he expects the records to be shared all around. In other words, no one is going
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      • Inside the RINGS
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          131 22 Reuters BOXING legend Muhammad Ali happily mingled with fans in Adelaide yesterday as he started an Australian tour which will take him to the Sydney Olympics. Ali, who won an Olympic gold medal at the 1960 Games in Rome, visited the factory of paper products company Visy. The
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          65 22 Reuters THE International Olympic Committee (IOC) awarded Australia gold on Tuesday for its Sydney Games tourism drive, saying it hoped it would be a model for future Olympics. lOC director of marketing Michael Payne said Australia was the first host nation to exploit fully the tourism potential of
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        Lock icon Golden hope for Asia
        315 22 Hidayat heads an imposing Indonesian line-up Wires SYDNEY The feathers were flying at about 200 km/h as teenage badminton sensation Taufik Hidayat took aim at an Olympic gold medal. The world’s No 1 player heads an Indonesian men’s team that is among the favourites to win
        – Wires; Reuters  -  315 words
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        Lock icon Sprinters cross swords
        367 22 TRASH-TALKING WAR Wires SYDNEY The two sprinters are at it again. We don’t know whether people sit up and take notice when American Maurice Greene and Canadian Donovan Bailey cross swords, but it certainly makes headlines. And so it was earlier this week. Bailey hit out at
        – Wires; Reuters  -  367 words
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        Lock icon Practice makes perfect
        19 23 Brazil’s lean, mean beach volleyball team practising for the Olympics at Sydney’s Bondi Beach on Monday
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        Lock icon Beware of blazing boxers
        179 23 Wires SYDNEY Sydney’s Lord Mayor Frank Sartor hopes to receive the Olympic torch at the Town Hall today. He would prefer that, given the choice, to a sawn-off broom handle attached to a silverpainted tin and containing a pair of burning underpants. That is what was
        – Wires  -  179 words
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        Lock icon Pound takes the high road
        634 23 IOC chief-in-waiting slams reprieve for Sotomayor AFP SYDNEY It’s a good time to get on your high horse at the Olympics, especially when you are after the most powerful sports position in the world. Canadian Dick Pound has been following International Olympic Committee president Juan
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      • World WATCH
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          Lock icon The Preen Team
          480 24 US players allow inferior Aussies to get under their skin Wires NO PUNCHES were thrown and no one was ejected in the 89-64 US basketball victory over the Australians on Saturday. But the altercation that transpired between America’s Vince Carter and the Aussie’s Andrew Gaze immediately thrust
          – Wires; Reuters  -  480 words
      • Bench WARMERS
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          Lock icon All lights on Cole
          421 24  -  ENGLISH SOCCER By Adam Hashidy hashidy@sph.com.sg HOW often has it happened in the past? A young player makes an impact very early in his career and suddenly, he is proclaimed as the nation’s next best thing. The latest to enjoy, or suffer, such unnecessary attention is
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        Lock icon New York Jets roar past Patriots
        610 26 Belichick humbled by his former team Wires NEW JERSEY This was Bill Belichick’s choice: to refer to the New York Jets as “they” instead of “we”. His choice to suffer after the Jets came back to beat the New England Patriots, 20-19, on Monday
        Wires; AFP  -  610 words
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        Lock icon Keep an eye on Koller
        446 26 CHALLENGING MAN UNTTED MANCHESTER A win for Manchester United is a rather foregone conclusion, but England’s champions would do well to keep an eye out for Anderlecht’s relatively unknown striker, Jan Roller, in their Champions’ League opener on Thursday morning (Singapore time). The Czech stands
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      732 27 SERENE GOH (seremg@sph.com.sg) gets dizzy on ice, sun-kissed ski instructors and the beauty of Mount Buller, which rests near Melbourne. OUNT BULLER. Ski country. L T J Here’s where you’ll find all manner i 1 I of energy related to winter sport. f J Especially endearing albeit
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        410 28  -  Serene Goh BEFORE you head out for a romp in the snow, click on http://www.mtbuller.com.au for details on the latest offerings. Useful factoids such as the current temperature (-3.4 C) and an events diary also abound. There are various ways to get up this mountain, some of which
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          88 29 MALAYSIA. Specifically, Dabong, Keiantan. The home of the Gunong Stong waterfall offers more activity than its name might suggest. At YMCA’s price of $2OO ($2lO for non-members) for a five-day trip, you might just be persuaded. This camper’s package, which departs on Oct 11, includes transport, use of
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          75 29 COME October and November, you stand a chance to win we kid you not first-class for life. Emirates’ promotion will extend to all fare-paying passengers flying to or through Dubai during this time. Passengers fill in a coupon placed in the back pockets of seats on-board, and cabin
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          102 29  -  Serene Goh NEW Delhi does not have to be a drag if you are a business traveller. Just head for the recently-opened Grand Hyatt Delhi, an elegant low-rise containing 390 rooms. Set within four hectares of environmentally protected area in Vasant Kunj Phase 11, the lodging is
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        254 29 The best travel companions when you re in the great outdoors are thingamabobs, doohickeys and whatchamacallits that serve any function under the sun. SERENE GOH (sereneg@sph.com.sg) fiddles with these gizmos and gives you the lowdown on the gadgets that make living out of a tent jo much easier.
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          66 30 FI Grand Prix, Sepang, Malaysia Oct 20-22 ADDICTED to speed? Head out to Sepang next month for the FI Grand Prix. Asiatravelmart.com has packages from US$l32 (*****.40) for four nights at the Concorde Inn, KLIA close enough to the race track to feel the heat. Other offers
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          106 30 National Geographic Channel Action Asia Challenge (NGC) Thailand, Oct 15 PICTURE it: Your face, framed by NGC’s yellow border. The documentary broadcaster joins Action Asia for its series of four adventure races from next month to May next year. To back the Action Asia Foundation an adventure-based charity
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          112 30  -  Serene Goh Festes de la Merce Sept 22-25 Lucky you if you happen to be in Barcelona for this festival. The city celebrates the Virgin of Mercy, its patron saint. The party opens on Friday night, with an explosion of fireworks and dancing giants. Most energetic is the start
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        730 30 The real fun begins for Sydney after the Qames. Australia’s minister for tourism tells GOH (sereng@sph.com.sg) what the city expects from its Olympian investment COMING this weekend to the land of Oz: The convention of athletic wizards in what sponsors would have us believe is the
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        655 31 Margaret Edson, writer of Pulitzer-winner Wit, talks to TAN DAWN Will (dawntan@sph.com.sg) about theatre, spirituality and the meaning of life. HE graduated magna Scum laude in Renaissance history. And promptly went on to sell hot dogs, paint a convent in Rome and work as a unit clerk
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        329 31  -  Michael Kuchwara AP NEW YORK Cats, Broadway’s longest-running show, has become as much a “memory” as the song that was its most persistent refrain. After a nearly 18-year run, the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical closed with a roar on Sunday at the Winter Garden Theatre before
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        185 31  -  Tan Dawn Wei HAILED as a life-changing piece of work, Wit moved Action Theatre artistic director Ekachai Uekrongtham deeply when he first saw it last year in New York. “I just stood outside the theatre after the show for a long time, trying to figure out
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        420 33 The swimming pool at Paterson Edge is an architectural marvel SAM I-SHAN (ishan@sph.com.sg) takes a look at this rooftop human aquarium. 0WIM off the edge of a 10-storey building. Surrealistic? You bet. But that’s the experience you get in the rooftop swimming pool in Paterson Edge.
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          91 33 http://www2.ucsc.edii/ people/gflores/bauhaus/bl.html TRANSLATED literally, Bauhaus is a German term which means “house for building”. Initially an effort to revive Germany’s post World War I economy and provide “rational social housing” for the masses, the movement rejects “bourgeois” attitudes in design and architecture; it stresses functionality and incorporates engineering
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          77 33 www.geoci ti es. co m/dkdesB DO YOU have an ongoing fascination with cars? If so, then park yourself at this useful page which provides up-to-date reports of motor shows from car capitals around the world such as Detroit, Frankfurt and Tokyo. There are digital portfolios of thfe
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          53 33 http://www.marc-newson.com FANS of this prolific designer from Sydney can ogle at all his works here. If you thought his signature Orgone lounge chair was clever, check out the other hotspots around the world that bear his garish thumbprint including the Mash restaurant in Manchester and the Pod
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          55 33 http://www.homeportfolio.com/ index.jhtml YOU could use the product reviews, but more handy are the tips and advice dished out at this site. Besides getting insights on working with interior designers, there are tips on decorating a child’s room and finding a colour scheme for the living room.
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          45 33  -  Angelica Tan http://www.style36s.com A ONE-STOP style guide for fashion, furniture, leisure and other indulgences. Editor’s picks point to great websites and catalogues for furniture. Interesting reads include one on dressing up your pooch and the myriad uses of bamboo. A great bookmark.
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          95 34 THIS exhibition juxtaposes hyper-realism oil paintings with abstract paintings by showcasing the works of two highly-talented Vietnamese artists. Le Thanh Thu draws his inspiration from the relationship of the human being with his environment. Highlights include triptychs and diptychs of his interpretation of modern cityscape spaces. Lam Hyun
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          67 34 OVER 200 selected hand-made clay works will be on display in this ceramic exhibition by the artist-potters from Studio 106. The works are the result of creative experiments with raku and pit-firing. The exhibition is open to the public from Sept 29 to Oct 3 between 11 am
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          84 34  -  Jeanmarie Tan PRESENTED byAdhoc Works and Luna Id Productions, this comedy features three interwoven stories about friendship, romance and career brought together by a sock. Meet characters like a yoga instructor, a serial dater and a romance novelist with a writer’s block. Robin Leong is among
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        522 34 From rain to cats to fish, the subjects of the five winners of the Philip Morris Qroup Of Companies Singapore Art Awards are as varied as the artists themselves. TAN DAWN WEI (dawntan@sph.com.sg) talks to them about their award-winning work. OT LOOKS good enough to eat. A
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      22 31 The Cats webring: http://members.T ripod. Com/(tilde)iellylorum/ index.Html as well as http://www.Reallv useful.Com/Cats/ index.Html will give you tons of trivia on the show.
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      33 34 The Philip Morris Group Of Companies Singapore Art Awards will be staged at the ARTrium@MlTAfrom Sept 13 to 22. Admission is free. The exhibition will open from 9 am to 8 pm daily.
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      534 35 How to tell if you’re a product of the 1980 k You thought Molly Ringwald was really cool. You think of St. Elmo’s Fire and The Breakfast Club as movies of a tragic generation. Hearing “where’s the beef?” conjures a picture of an old woman. You know
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      609 35 Movies Patman A BnWn 9 pm HBO 60 Features a less angst-ridden Caped Crusader in the charming persona of George Clooney. This Joel Schumacher-directed instalment boasts lots of flash, but not much substance. This time around, the Dark Knight and his sidekick battle Mr Freeze and Poison Ivy, who have
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      303 36 LONDON Jennifer Lopez brought part of the West End of London to a halt last night with another jaw-dropping appearance. Lopez, renowned for her flesh-baring outfits at this year’s Oscars and Grammys, did not disappoint the hundreds of mostly male fans who came out to
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      146 36 Oh, baby LONDON The wife of David Bowie (above) has revealed how she and Catherine Zeta-Jones compared stomach sizes during pregnancy. Iman, 45, gave birth to AlwanJrjy gahin Jones on Aug 15, six days after Dylan was born to Zeta-Jones and Mlflianl Ilnnglat “No doubt we’ll run into
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      150 36 BRITNEY Spears, NSync and REM are among the 98 musical acts being lined up for a marathon rock concert in January in Rio de Janerio. “Move over Woodstock,” said Brazilian impresario Roberto sZiwUiia “Without sounding too boastful, the upcoming Rock in Rio event
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