Project Eyeball, 13 November 2000

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    11 1 projecteyeball. eyeball.asial.com.sg Mita (p) 077/02/2000 Monday, November 13, 2000 80 CENTS
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      147 1 155 DEAD Only a dozen out of some 167 riders survive an Alpine inferno after a cable train catches fire entering a 3.2 km tunnel headed to ski slopes. See Page 12 NEED AN ALIBI? Cheating spouses are just a URL from a good cover-up story. See Page 5 NOTHING.
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      314 1 ENVmONMENTALLY-FRIENDLY CARS Wa rUSS A *5 o SfBSSS'S Toyota presenting the hybrid engine of the Toyota Prius at a Paris auto show. The hybrid system, which reduces pollution 90 per cent, couples a petrol engine with an electrical motor. Cheap, not green, is The Government has given the green light
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  • News & Views
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      59 2 Reuters LONDON Britain’s army got a bride to her wedding on time on Saturday when it ferried her across England’s worst floods in 50 years. Floodwaters in the northern city of York blocked Anita Hudson’s path to the registry office. Her panic-stricken mum turned to the army, and soldiers
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    • US Elections 2000
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        Lock icon No end in sight to election stalemate
        461 2 Either slow, manual count or courts will decide Wires TALLAHASSEE The contest for the most powerful office on earth is to be decided either by the wrangling of lawyers or by the painful examining and counting of every vote cast in Florida’s Palm
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      Lock icon Americans want fair, not quick, results
      210 2 AP TALLAHASSEE It should cheer Democrat presidential candidate A1 Gore that most Americans think that accuracy, not time, is of the essence when it comes to the vote count and that the Vice-President was right to withdraw his concession of defeat. And it should
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      Lock icon Look, can’t you see we’re relaxed?
      522 3 Both Bush and Gore try to strike delicate PR balance Nyt AUSTIN (Texas) Their loyal aides are now fighting their battles for them while both Vice President Albert Gore and Governor George W Bush are taking great pains to distance themselves from the fray
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      Lock icon GORE BUSH
      206 3  -  Bong Fortin WHAT HAPPENED Democrat A1 Gore gained a net of 19 votes at the end of a manual recount of 4,500 votes or one per cent of the countywide votes in Palm Beach County yesterday. It led to officials ordering a manual recount of countywide votes. WHAT
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      Lock icon BUSH WALKS HIS DOG...
      39 3 Bush demonstrating how calm and collected he is in the company of running mate Dick Cheney (left), senior adviser Andrew Card and his dog, Spot, at his ranch near Waco in Texas on Saturday. AP
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      Lock icon ...WHILE GORE PLAYS FOOTBALL
      34 3 Al Gore also working hard at showing the world his lighter side, playing touch football with daughter Karenna during a family game at the Vice-President’s residence in Washington, DC. AFP
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    • Ground ZERO
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        Lock icon Rocky road for ‘green’ cars
        656 4  -  Auto industry and drivers cautious By Steven Ng stevenng@sph.com.sg PUT your electric dreams on hold: The smoke-belching, petrol-burning auto will still be the king of the road for years to come. The Government may be giving rebates for motorists to purchase environmentally friendly or “green”
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      439 4 CAR makers are spending billions in green car research not out of altruism, but because laws in Europe, the US and soon, Singapore, will squeeze sales of polluting vehicles. Singapore is expected to adopt the strict Euro II emission standards early next year, which could see the banning of 5
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      Lock icon Cheating spouses
      798 5  -  Philanderers in Singapore have to wait for alibi websites to open here By Denyse Yeo denyse@sph.com.sg LET your imagination run wild for a moment: You are an obedient and loving husband with beautiful, well-behaved kids. You are so good that even your mother-in-law adores you. Then, while drinking
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      Lock icon Pilots still trustworthy
      551 6  -  More than air-traffic controllers, survey shows By G Sivakkumaran gsiva@sph.com.sg SINGAPOREANS would much rather entrust their lives to pilots than to air-traffic controllers. That’s the finding of a survey commissioned by The New Paper following the SQOO6 crash in Taipei on Oct 31. On that fateful night,
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      Lock icon S’pore artist goes digital
      694 6  -  HI-TECH CREATIONS By Eri Akbar eri@sph.com.sg HE IS an “old school” painter who is keeping up with the times. Markus J M Lazim, 52, who has been painting since his teenage days, is hosting an exhibition of his digital works. “I want to catch up with
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      Lock icon No instant duck race millionaire
      409 7 Yellow not bonus red ‘competitor’ wins NO OVERNIGHT millionaire emerged from The Straits Times Million-Dollar Duck Race fundraising event yesterday. That’s because a lone yellow rubber duck (and not the bonus red) emerged the clear winner. It waddled past the finishing line at the Singapore
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    • Local LOG
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        Lock icon Changi chapel to move to new site
        174 7 WORLD War II veterans and school groups planning to visit the Changi Chapel and Museum will now have to go to the new site at 1000, Upper Changi Road. Currently located at the periphery of the Changi Prison, the chapel and museum are
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        173 7 CONTRACTORS may soon have to be on their toes and meet certain benchmarks if they would like to tender for public projects. The Building and Construction Agency (BCA) intends to review its contractors’ registry system in order to encourage firms to upgrade their
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        Lock icon Course to teach social etiquette
        178 7 IT’S a social etiquette course with a Singaporean twist. Being introduced by the Bukit Timah Community Development Council in January, it will teach students and grassroots leaders multi-cultural social graces and dining etiquette, among other social skills. The Personal Enrichment and Community Social Development Programme
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      Lock icon Arafat vows uprising will continue
      363 8 More Palestinians injured in violence AFP DOHA Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat vowed yesterday that the Palestinian people would continue their revolt until the end of Israeli occupation. “Our people are now more than ever determined to pursue their struggle in the Al-Aqsa uprising. It is
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    • World WIDE
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        Lock icon Malaysia balks at 2001 trade talks
        168 8 Reuters BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN Asia-Pacific leaders should forget about setting dates for a fresh round of global trade talks until they have an agenda, Malaysian International Trade and Industry Minister Rafidah Aziz said yesterday. Rafidah’s comments contrasted sharply with those of US Trade Representative
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        195 8 Reuters LONDON Britain’s security services have foiled a plot by a dissident Irish Republican guerrilla group to detonate a huge bomb in central London, the Sunday Telegraph reported. The paper cited a senior security official as saying the Real IRA planned to drive a
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        Lock icon Taiwan leader’s ‘nuclear’ crisis
        150 8 AP TAIPEI Chanting anti-nuke slogans in the rain, over 100,000 people rallied yesterday to support Taiwan’s president, who faced a political crisis after scrapping a partially completed nuclear plant. Protesters in the capital, Taipei, and the southern port city of Kaohsiung demonstrated for President Chen Shui-bian,
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        Lock icon Barrier reef blast to free stranded ship
        161 8 AP BRISBANE Marine officials used explosives yesterday to blast away parts of the Great Barrier Reef in an effort to free a stranded ship. Queensland State Transport Minister Steve Bredhauer said the explosion was “carefully controlled trimming”, and damage to the reef was
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      Lock icon Cops may hire crooks; mum killers need not apply
      294 9 BRITAIN’S POLICE LONDON The British police force is literally setting a thief to catch a thief. It is faced with a shortage of police officers so severe, that people with criminal records may be taken on the rolls. In the catchment
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      36 9 Colourful toucan kites awaiting their owners during the annual 23rd Festival of the Winds on Sydney’s Bondi Beach yesterday. Over 50,000 people from around the world attended the largest kite-flying event in Australia. AFP
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      Lock icon Cyberbobby to the rescue
      348 9 British police forming elite unit to fight Internet crime LONDON They might not wear superhero capes or brandish laser guns but British “cybercops” will battle with Internet fraudsters, paedophiles and hackers. The formation of an elite unit to tackle cybercrime will be announced by the government
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      Lock icon SINGAPORE NET FORCE
      142 9 IN SINGAPORE, cybercrimes are handled by the Criminal Investigation Department’s (CID) Computer Crime Branch. It was set up in 1995 and expanded with a computer forensics department in September this year. According to the head of the new branch, ASP Wilfred Adrian Nathan, cybercrime is a growing
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      Lock icon CIA workers ‘misusing’ computers
      204 9 AP WASHINGTON It seems that the spooks at Langley are not just busy with their cloak and dagger activities the CIA is investigating 160 of its employees and contract workers for exchanging “inappropriate” and off-colour messages on a covert “chatroom” in the spy agency’s classified computer
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      Lock icon Clock starts ticking for Estrada
      579 11 House to vote against Philippine leader MANILA Joseph Estrada, who entered office with a landslide vote, looks almost certain today to become the first Philippine president to be impeached when Congress opens debate on charges he took bribes from gambling syndicates. The 218-member House of
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      Lock icon Party rift threatens Japanese PM
      360 11 CHALLENGE FROM REFORMIST KATO TOKYO A power struggle in Japan’s biggest ruling party intensified yesterday when reformist heavyweight Koichi Kato said he wanted to set up his own government and oust that of Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori. Kato long cited as a potential successor opened
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      Lock icon Over 150 dead in Austria train crash
      571 12 Country mourns its worst disaster KAPRUN (Austria) The death toll in the cable train inferno in an alpine tunnel in Austria was revised to over 150 yesterday even as the country, which has seen more than its fair share of fatal avalanches and
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      Lock icon Chechen hijacker surrenders in Israel
      397 12 FLIGHT DRAMA UVDA A Chechen bearing a fake bomb surrendered yesterday after seizing a Russian airliner on a domestic flight. He diverted the plane to Uvda, in Israel’s southern desert. The 57 passengers and crew were all safe, officials said. Israeli military authorities confiscated four
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      Lock icon The colour of e-money is pink
      419 13 Research links gays and IT success LONDON All those dollars it generates may look a lush green but a study is now suggesting that the new economy is seemingly a shade pink. And we’re not talking about health here. Instead, the buzz is about
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      Lock icon Rock Star in close shave
      43 13 Meet the 203-carat, £350 million (SsB6o million) De Beers Millennium Star diamond, which rohhers tried unsuccessfully to steal on Tuesday. Police are now questioning 12 men about the heist, which could have been the world’s biggest robbery. Reuters
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      Lock icon BIZ SITE OF THE DAT: www.growing asia.com
      234 13  -  Nicholas Yong IF YOU are looking to develop your latent entrepreneurial muscles, work out at this site. Growasia.com, touted as a site for buyers, sellers and developers of Asian corporate assets, is backed by the Asian investment bank Crosby group, Overseas Union Bank
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      Lock icon SingTel’s strong earnings could lift depressed market
      479 13 TECH STOCKS STILL DOWN Reuters SINGAPORE Singapore Telecommunications could be the lone bright spot in the local stock market this week as investors struggle with US political uncertainty and fresh losses in overseas hi-tech stocks. Sing Tel could lift investors’ spirits after reporting
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      Lock icon Fancy car gadgets catch the eye
      322 14  -  AUTO SHOW Steven Ng AUTO technologies of the future are on display at the Millennium Motorshow. Here’s what you can expect to see on the roads soon. NECVOX DISPLAY MONITOR THIS device, manufactured by Taiwanese firm Punch Video, could be the perfect companion to
      Wang Huifen  -  322 words
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      Lock icon Handy and dandy
      709 14  -  Ricoh’s new digital camera compares well with competition By Winston Goh winston@sph.com.sg THE best thing going for the Ricoh RDC-7 digital camera is its brush-metal good looks and form factor, making it a good buy for mobile workers who need a digital snapper. That’s because its shape
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      Lock icon Firms allow personal chores at work
      363 15 PUSHING UP PRODUCTIVITY NYT NEW YORK A couple of times each week, Kevin Pridgeon “borrows” about 20 minutes off the work clock to order groceries from Webvan.com and items from Webßx.com. Just last Friday, the 29-year-old software engineer took an hour off from work
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      31 15 Too tired to pedal? This prototype model of a foldable electric bicycle by Sony, powered by a lithium battery, may be just the thing to rest weary legs. AFP
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      Lock icon Web and WAP devices set to steal show
      452 15 Comdex opens today with PCs, dotcoms taking backseat AFP LAS VEGAS The Comdex hightechnology show opens in Nevada today with Internet and wireless applications overshadowing the humble personal computer. The five-day show brings together more than 2,000 exhibitors, 650 of them non-American,
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    • Wry TECH
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        Lock icon Old ideas for new modes of transport
        626 18  -  By John Lui johnlui@sph.com.sg CAR engines have been much the same lumps since the first ones frightened horses in the late 1800 s. Even the Toyota Prius and the Honda Insight -two green cars which could be a common sight here burn petrol
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      • Article
        Lock icon Insult that S’pore PR can be bought
        260 18 Art for PR scheme draws s2Bm in artefacts (Nov 8) YOUR application for permanent residency can be helped along if you donate or lend artefacts to Singapore’s museums. The scheme, already in place for about five years, has attracted $2B million worth of
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      27 2 Qood morning! Partly cloudy. Showers with thunder expected over many areas in the afternoon. High: 31C I Low: 24C Tides: 11.24AM/3.1M Information not available Met Service: http://www.gov.sg/metsin
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
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      60 15 HELEN, SWEETHEART OF THE INTERNET lucy i7o you ever feel LIKE OUR GENERATION IE POINTLESS? PHIL'S ALL ON ABOUT HOW MUOH MEANING LIFE HAS HAI7 FOR THE BOOMERS ANP HOW LITTLE WE HAVe... VO you FEEL you MISSEP OUT ON ANYTHING? I WASN'T ALLOWED TO PATE 'TIL I WAS 22.
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      251 16 To all dear friends and relatives, here’s our newborn second child Alex saying “Hello” to everybody! Lewes if Kim Lint 5 Dear Friends Relatives Baby Hong Jun, bom on 5 September 2000, has brought us great joy with his toothless smiles and baby talks. Anna if Teong Chye 7 f
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      314 17 S*Ourmillenium baby, Kai Suherwan, is the best thing to happen in our life. Judy it Suherwan Abu •at. Our bubbly sporty baby Scdtl is all ready to start off his life time marathon after his 2V2 months of arrival to this world. Nicholas Janice All the tiredness it hard work
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  • EyeSport
    • Sport IN SHORT
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        Lock icon NBA results
        199 19 76ers85, Celtics 83 IN PHILADELPHIA, Eric Snow scored a career-high 25 points as the home team beat Boston for its league-leading seventh consecutive victory. The Sixers’ 7-0 start matched the second-best start in the team’s history, tying the 1966-67 NBA Championship team. Raptors 98, Bolls 75 IN CHICAGO,
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        Lock icon India recovers
        92 20 AFP DHAKA India, chasing Bangladesh’s huge first innings score of4oo runs, bounced back from an early setback yesterday to pile up 366 for 7 at the end of the third day’s play in the first Test. The Indians, resuming overnight at 81-1, hit back to add 285 runs
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      • Article
        Lock icon West Indies lose
        82 20 Reuters PERTH-The West Indies crashed to a seven-wicket loss to Western Australia in their first serious match on their tour of Australia. Western Australia sealed its victory after lunch on the fourth and final day when they cruised to 70-3 after being set just 68 for victory.
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        Lock icon Makinen on hold
        77 20 Reuters PERTH Four times world champion Tommi Makinen’s win at the Rally of Australia yesterday will remain provisional after the turbocharger on his Mitsubishi was seized by the Federation de I’Automobile (FIA). An FIA spokesman admitted that the results of the Perth-based event would remain provisional overnight
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        Lock icon Asiad in Qatar
        80 21 AP SEOUL The Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) on Sunday selected Doha of Qatar to host the 2006 Asian Games, local officials said. Doha was selected among four candidates that included Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong and New Delhi at an OCA meeting in Pusan, the host of
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        Lock icon Still a no-show
        66 21 AFP NEW DELHI-Former Indian captain Mohammad Azharuddin was absent for a second day Sunday from an enquiry commission of the National Cricket Board to probe match-fixing charges levelled against five stars. The former skipper has remained incommunicado since Nov 1 when the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)
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      • Article
        Lock icon Duel in Paris
        82 21 Reuters PARIS Gustavo Kuerten and Marat Safin duel for the No 1 world ranking when the U552.95-million (555.13 million) Tennis Masters Series tournament in Paris kicks off today. Russia’s Safin regained the lead in the ATP Champions’ Race by reaching the final in St Petersburg after Kuerten
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      Lock icon It’s Lewis, by far
      665 19  -  Challenger Tua proves too short, too green, too naive By Zaki Amrullah zaki@sph.com.sg THE majority at the Mandalay Bay cauldron in Las Vegas was clad in the New Zealand national flag. It was obvious who the crowd favourite was. Although the fight went the full distance
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      Lock icon QUOTE OF THE DAY
      23 20 “I’m short...but I’m big.” David Tua, before his fight with Lennox Lewis for the IBF and WBA heavyweight titles.
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      Lock icon FA backs Keegan
      504 20  -  Will foot legal bill to sue tabloid By Adam Hashidy hashidy@sph.com.sg LOOKS like the English Football Association has more to do off the field than on it. Maybe it thinks that a court battle could be better than a low-scor-ing soccer encounter. In a unprecedented move, it
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      Lock icon Lions need to claw their way into semis
      467 20  -  DO OR DIE MATCH VS MALAYSIA By Zaki Amrullah zaki@sph.com.sg THE Lions’ days are numbered in Songkhla. Nothing but a win against archrivals Malaysia today will ensure Singapore’s stay in the Tiger Cup. Anything less would mean a disastrous outing for Vincent
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      Lock icon DID YOU KNOW?
      43 21 PAUL Ince made his debut for Manchester United in an English Premier League match against Sheffield United on Aug 15,1992. The former United captain made 222 appearances and was, miraculously, not sent off even once in United’s colours but A-Z
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      Lock icon All Blacks hit back
      521 21 New Zealand beat France 39-26, avenge World Cup defeat Reuters PARIS It was the revenge of the Titans. Coming back from their World Cup semi-final defeat to France, the All Blacks recovered some of their lost pride with yesterday’s victory. The star of the night was
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      Lock icon Captain not satisfied with Aussie win
      451 21 GRITTY SCOTS LOSE 9-30 EDINBURGH Australian captain John Eales admitted that his side was still not firing on all cylinders after a 30-9 victory over Scotland at Murrayfield. The world champions proved their worth in the second half as their strength enabled them to
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    • Sports BUZZ
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        62 22 Wires ROME According to Italian news reports, 19-year-old Spanish F3OOO driver Fernando Alonso has confirmed that Ferrari has approached Minardi to enquire about the possibility of getting his services for the team. There is growing speculation that Ferrari is trying to get the F3OOO driver a race
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        Lock icon New Zealand F1
        83 22 Wires AUCKLAND-An FI Grand Prix in New Zealand? It just might be a possibility. The rumour is that fund raising has started and the possible site could be six hectares next to the Auckland International Airport. Aside from New Zealand, several other countries are also aspiring for
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        Lock icon Shuttlers to quit
        79 22 Wires BEIJING Just because the Chinese grabbed four out of five badminton golds in Sydney 2000, it’s not time to hang the rackets just yet. Seven Chinese world champions will retire from international badminton, head coach of China’s national badminton team Li Yongbo confirmed recently. Women’s doubles
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      Lock icon ON THIS DAY
      27 22 IN 1990, Alan Shearer started his first ever international match for England. The 20-year-old bagged two goals in England under-21’s comfortable 3-0 win over
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      Lock icon Arsenal runs out of ammo
      443 22 Derby gives Gunners a wake-up call Wires LONDON In the end, Arsenal ran out of steam. Worse, they were lucky not to have been trounced. All this against a team that’s the lowest-ranked team in the Premiership. Manager Arsene Wenger minced no words. His team,
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    • Premier POINT
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        Lock icon Keane talks his way into trouble
        413 22  -  FAN-BASHING By Chris Lakey peppoint@sph.com.sg FOOTBALLERS kick, punch, grab, gouge and spit on the pitch but, really, they’re just pussycats once they put on their Armani suits. In a sport where players and managers treat match officials with the same disdain that a dog
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  • Unwind
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      Lock icon Kimmel chameleon
      1381 23 A good yarn makes the world go round. Prize-winning storyteller Eric Kimmel talks to JUNE WAN (junewan@sph.com.sg) about the art of telling a wondrous story. EING able to tell a good story kept Princess Sheherazade alive in the Arabian Nights. Such life-threatening marriage rituals have ceased nowadays, but
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        Lock icon BOOKS BY KIMMEL
        405 24 WHILE written ostensibly for children, Eric Kimmel’s tales make wondrous reading for adults as well. Here are some of his best works: Hershel and the Hanukkah Qoblins A Caldecott Honor Book. The holiday-hating, hill-dwelling hobgoblins are determined to ruin yet another Hanukkah for the villagers. These beastlets
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        Lock icon Father figure
        975 25 DREAM CATCHER Margaret A Salinger (Washington Square Press) $44.99 ■H D SALINGER is J probably best known I for his teen bible The Catcher In The Rye, with its war against “phonies”, for his sardonic short stories, and for fraternising with girls a third his age. He’s probably
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          Lock icon Kisses and Wilde vandals
          131 26 OSCAR Wilde’s tomb in Paris has often been the target of vandals. The flying angel headstone has been castrated twice and the front has been scrawled with graffiti and scorched by candles. But now it suffers its worst assault: Hundreds of lipstick kisses. “It’s been going
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          Lock icon Modern quotations
          61 26 TO BE published this week is a dictionary of quotations which will include sayings that reflect contemporary reality. The 1,300-page Encarta Book Of Quotations will include famous sayings by black and Asian people, as well as from popular culture and the world of business, reported books Unlimited. It
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          Lock icon Forsyth’s saga to go online
          44 26  -  Clara Chow THRILLER writer Frederick Forsyth is releasing his latest book exclusively online, through ebook publishers Online Originals. For £1.99 ($5.00), fans can download Veteran, a dark, violent tale of crime in London, onto their PCs or hand-held devices.
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        Lock icon Beyond 2001
        637 26 All books available at Borders THE LIGHT OF OTHERDAYS Arthur C Clarke and Stephen Baxter (Voyager) $39.99 N THE brink of 2001, the year he once wrote of as the distant future, Arthur C Clarke launches this tribute to mankind’s survival instincts. This latest release, a combined effort
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        Lock icon BLUFFER’S GUIDE TO The Virgin Suicides
        207 26  -  Clara Chow Jeffrey Eugenides fit’s about: Five mysterious teenage sisters who commit suicide en masse. In the wake of this, a baffled gaggle of boys next door try to make sense of the infatuation they felt for the girls, and the dull throb of
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        798 27 What makes pseudo-Qreek TV epics like Hercules, Vena, and the new Jason And The Argonauts, so gripping? JEANMARTR TAN (jeanm@sph.com.sg) embarks on an odyssey to discover the timeless appeal of mortal warriors, gods and monsters. VERYBODY loves a meaty, sordid soap opera and no one understood that better
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          547 29 Reuters On Saturday, CNN screened an exclusive interview with music maverick Madonna on World Beat. JEANMARIE TAN (jeanm@sph.com.sg) picks at the hones of the documentary and wonders: Where’s the meat on the Material Qirl? HROUGH her T hedonistic rebellion, Madonna can be easily perceived as the millennium’s
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          125 29 MODEL-TURNED-ACTRESS Tyra Banks must be feeling pretty good about herself these days. Not only did she get jiggy with it in the rowdy summer chick flick Coyote Ugly, she has also managed to bag a recurring role on one of her favourite
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          80 29 Suede-ish faux pas for Dharma Greg star JENNA Elfman nearly lost her hide at a fancy Peta (People For The Ethical Treatment Of Animals) dinner in Beverly Hills recently. What was she thinking, showing up with an expensive suede bag? Cosmopolitan magazine reported that animal rights zealots heckled the Dharma
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          157 29  -  Siti Hadijah DIVAS are aplenty in Hollywood, but not first ladies. David Alan Grier found this out when trying to find a first lady to his secret service agent in NBC’s new comedy, DAG. “When we started casting, I thought,
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        918 30 Bollywood king out of favour Wanted: Live, a show featuring Bollywood's who's who that's been postponed twice. ANGELICA TAN (tanaw@sph.com.sg) wonders whether the stars will keep their tryst with the fans this time around. ILL it prove W third-time lucky? Bollywood fans earnestly hope so. Still,
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      160 32 REPORTS questioning the sexuality of Gillian Anderson have hit the press after cameras caught the actress kissing lesbian comic Ellen DeGeneres. The steamy scene took place after the two stars recently dined together at the trendy Los Angeles eatery, Indochine, with DeGeneres’ new lover, Alexandra
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      174 32 CLAUDIA Schiffer (right) has kept gossip readers wondering who’s her new beau, after she dumped British playboy Tim Jefferies last week. She was then reported to have a relationship with former Calvin Klein exec Neil Kutnetz, but by the end of the
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        117 32 Wires THIRD Rock From The Sun actress Kristen Johnston (right) is worried that the “thin is in” message is having a damaging effect on impressionable teens. “I feel bad about the effect on young girls when people like myself are being called names in articles,
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