Streats, 23 October 2000

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  • 21 1 STREATS Treats for the Streets MONDAY 23 October 2000 Another quality publication of Singapore Press Holdings E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 103/06/2000
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  • 740 1 Proud to beMaams 11. CYNTHIA Lee MacQin^ie,* 21 a virtual unknown until she nabbed the role of Bunny in Mee Pok Man: The Play, admitted that she lost her virginity at 17. That’s hardly surprising, given prevailing liberal attitudes towards sex. What was different was her gung
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  • morning rush
    • 127 1 Japan S'pore trade pact Reuters TOKYO Singapore and Japan will work towards a Free Trade Agreement with talks to begin in January. The planned pact will free trade between the two countries and mean lower prices for consumers. The initiative is by Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong and Japanese Prime
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    • 71 1 SEVERAL businesses have set up committees to promote fire safety in the workplace. These committees have launched a series of programmes, ranging from teaching workers how to use fire extinguishers to identifying common fire hazards. The Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) has already got companies in the
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  • Streatsmart local
    • 552 2  -  by Violetta Wong THEY have absolutely no experience in sex and they intend keeping it that way till marriage. Chua Mei Ting and Wayne Soon, both 17, are junior college students who are proud to be virgins. So proud that they dare go
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    • Interchange
      • 651 2 Making love in real and reel life was a virgin till recently when I got married and I am amazed at the intensity of involvement of one's whole being when one is making love. Making love is a beautiful expression of two people when they are
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    • Article, Illustration
      108 3 I had to choose between getting married and an abortion. I was very confused... I was also very scared because my mum was not aware of what had happened and I was afraid she'd find out... I still get nightmares. I hear babies crying or I dream about
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    • 221 3 WE want to know when our daughters turn up at a clinic asking for an abortion. This was the view of 10 parents contacted by The Straits Times, following reports that the Health Ministry saw no need to change the law to get parents’ consent for
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    • 450 5 It's the images we see in advertising which tell us: If you have pimples, you cannot be a princess Professor Goh CheeLeok, medical director of the National Skin Centre DON'T like the way you look? Never mind, there’s always plastic surgery. And it’s not just
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    • 68 5 Our weather girl says Better not leave home without an umbrella today'cos thunderstorms are coming our way. Expect heavy rain in the morning over most areas. The temperature will reach 32 degrees Celsius. And you can catch the high tide at 8.48 am (2.5 m). Weather girl from Jeffery Chung
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    • Just a minute
      • 51 5 PAssionisan ongoing exhibition at the Singapore History Museum as part of the People's Association's 40th anniversary celebrations. For old-timers, it will be a good stroll down memory lane, while younger ones can learn aboutTrfein Singapore over the past 40 years. On till Nov 30. Call 837-9940 for
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      • 64 5 If your family has had more than its fair share of cancer cases, the Familial Cancer Clinic wants to hear from you. The National Cancer Centre has started Southeast Asia's first specialised clinic to look into hereditary forms of cancer. The clinic hopes to counsel families and
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      • 53 5 Deepavali's round the corner. So don't forget to send cards to all your Hindu friends wishing them a Happy Deepavali. And while you're at it, why not head down to Serangoon Road t to catch the EL Deepavali y Light-up W and soak in the joy of the W
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  • Streatsmart column
    • 543 6 I don't want sex yet WHEN I was asked if I would write about why I’m still a virgin, I was stunned. And a little embarrassed. It meant revealing something personal. It meant exposing myself to sniggers, perhaps even public ridicule. Was I ashamed to be a virgin? Perhaps. But
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    • 170 7 before you pocket that $1 coin take a good look a t it it may well be a 100-rupiah coin, worth a two cents. Some unscrupulous shopowners are deliberately passing off the Indonesian coin as the local one the dollar coin is only
      Pic: Shin Mir  -  170 words
    • 121 7 onekindact Kavitha,2s,co-ordinator: had dropped some important documents accidentally in the cabin compartment of the train and could not retrieve it without technical help. I reported the loss to the station control staff and he promised to keep me updated. As promised, the staff contacted me within 24 hours.
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    • 257 7 SENIOR clerk Lim Hock Heng, 51, has been a volunteer probation officer for 25 years. During this time, he says, he has noticed a change in the backgrounds of the juvenile offenders and the types of crime they commit. Today many juvenile offenders come from
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    • 267 7 EVERY dog has its day, and if it doesn’t, why then an insurance policy might just cover his woes. For no more than 40 cents a day, pet owners can now buy medical insurance for their beloved animals. The NTUC Income policy covers a pet
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    • news scan
      • 113 7 AN 83-year-old woman was robbed last Friday night at 7.10 pm inside the lift at Block 222, Tampines Street 22. Mdm Quek Ah Geok was returning to her flat on the seventh floor when a man went into the lift with her. She pressed the
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      • 84 7 PEDESTRIANS beware: Besides looking for oncoming traffic, watch out for falling traffic lights. This happened last Friday at Geylang Lorong 23. Shin Min Daily News reported that one of the overhead traffic lights momentarily became a hanging light, posing a danger to passing vehicles and pedestrians, as
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      • 158 7 AN accountant lost $5,000 after being knocked over while returning to the office. The 22-year-old woman had withdrawn $30,000 cash from a bank at Cheong Chin Nam Road, off Upper Bukit Timah Road, at 1.55 pm on Friday. As she was walking along Upper Bukit Timah Road,
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  • Streatsmart regional
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      • 138 8 Bernama MASJIDTANAH, Melaka Efforts to clear the confusion among Malay university students who have been influenced by elements who politicise religion have been successful, Education Minister Tan Sri Musa Mohamed said. Their studies had been affected through such influences but now there was a change among them
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      • 106 8 -AFP BANGKOK A Thai zoo owner wants to sell tigers over the Internet in an attempt to save the big cats from extinction. “Commercial breeding and trade” on the Net could “help save the species from extinction,” the Bangkok Post said, quoting Chuvit Pitakpornpallop, who
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      • 110 8 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR The wife of one of three Malaysians being held hostage in the southern Philippines has appealed to Manila to suspend its attack on the kidnappers and to negotiate with them. Pakiah Laksmi, wife of Mohamad Noh Sulaiman, said she could not understand why
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    • 278 8 -AFP Pressure mounts on vicepresident tocallfor Estrada's ouster MANILA Philippine VicePresident Gloria Arroyo faces the daunting task of uniting the opposition against President Joseph Estrada while refusing to openly call for his resignation herself. While there is growing anger against Mr Estrada following allegations he took
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    • 66 8 Daily Mail knowornot You can tell the age of a fish by counting the rings in its ear. The ear bone, or otolith, of a fish has growth rings laid down each year. The oldest fish so far recorded was a female European eel called
      – Daily Mail  -  66 words
    • 175 8 Reuters MANILA Philippine President Joseph Estrada suggested yesterday he might agree to a snap presidential election to resolve the country’s political crisis it there was a public support for such a poll. “That is constitutionally impossible but if they want, it would be better
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    • 187 8 Bernama The milk is said to have high anti-oxidant properties vital for healthy bodies KUALA LUMPUR Wild horse milk is being increasingly recognised as a nutritious drink. It is beneficial not only for healthy growth but has also been accepted as an alternative medicine
      – Bernama  -  187 words
    • 221 9 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Fifteen month old Mohamed Emir Daniel Mohamed Ghazali who was taken away by his maid was found in Cheras yesterday together with the maid. Assistant Commissioner of Police Koh Hang Sun said Mohamed Emir was found together with his Indonesian maid Enny Suzilawati, 47,
      – Bernama; Pic: The Sun  -  221 words
    • 130 9 Reuters Brisbane a young widowed Mother was under police guard lr > an Australian hospital yesterday 9 fter she was found semi-con-s Qjpus with the bodies of her three young children. Police said a neighbour found the bodies of twin seven-year-old 9irls and their
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    • 189 9 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR One third of Malaysia’s 120 major rivers are highly polluted. The Malaysian government is planning a nationwide clean-up. Environment Minister Law Hieng Ding said the main causes were industrialisation, land clearing, livestock farming and squatter homes along riverbanks. In
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    • 146 9 -AFP TAIPEI Two Taiwanese Chi Kung masters yesterday claimed they have created a world record using their penises to move a truck. The 11-tonne truck was pulled some 30cm in front of hundreds of spectators in downtown Taipei. “Today’s performance is just a trial for
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    • 47 9 gofigure. How many nurses in Tokyo have made medical mistakes on the job? in the past year, 62.7per cent of5277 nurses had filed an accident or incident report for a mistake committed.' Survey by medical affairs branch of All Japan Prefecture and Municipal Workers’ Union
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    • 115 9 Shenyang Lao Bian Dumpling Festival 23 Oct -31 Oct 2000 Amara Singapore is proud to present Master Chefs from the renowned Lao Bian Dumpling Restaurant in Shenyang, China. These talented chefs create delectable dumplings that have been popular since 1829. Prices start from $B. Lunch I 1.30 am to 2.30
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  • Streatsmart global
    • 293 10 The station has been broadcasting awareness messages every 15 minutes GULU, Uganda A tiny community radio station in Gulu, northern Uganda, is playing a big role in the fight against the Ebola fever outbreak currently ravaging the area. For the past 10 days during which
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      • 96 10 Reuters RIO DE JANEIRO The Olympics are still going on in a corner of Brazil’s dense Amazon jungle. Warriors in red body paint and feathered headdresses slipped their canoes into the murky Tocantins River during the Water Games at Brazil’s Indian Olympics 2000. Bow and arrow, upriver
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      • 115 10 Reuters CALGARY Paramedics in western Canada helped save a man in Scotland from dying of a drug and alcohol overdose on Thursday after being alerted by a Canadian who had learned of the man’s condition while in an Internet chat room. A web surfer in Calgary,
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      • 94 10 Reuters PRAGUE A peaceful meadow near the village of Brnicko in the eastern Czech Republic proved a less than idyllic rendezvous spot for a couple who were run over by a tractor during an amorous moment. The driver of the tractor took a short cut through
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    • 292 11 AP But Arab league stops short of asking members to do so CAIRO An Arab summit called to confront a deadly upsurge in Israeli-Palestinian violence ended yesterday with a declaration that Arabs may consider cutting ties with Israel, but did not call on
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    • 289 11 -AFP responsibility to safeguard Jerusalem and liberate the occupied territories falls on us all Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah CAIRO Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz launched a rare tirade against Riyadh’s long-term ally, the US, on Saturday and urged Arab states to cut
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    • 232 11 The Economist betweenthelines_ hanging global winds will blow differently through East Asia's individual economies. To see why, start with the most likely winners: The two island financial centres of Hongkong and Singapore. Hongkong, especially, has lots to gain from slower growth in the United States and
      – The Economist  -  232 words
    • 118 11 Reuters GAZA A 12-year-old Palestinian boy was shot dead in a clash between Israeli troops and stone-throwers in the Gaza Strip yesterday. The director of the emergency department at Gaza’s Shifa hospital said the boy was shot in the head with live ammunition. Witnesses said
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    • news scan
      • 110 11 -AP BELGRADE Otpor’s clenched fist symbol can be seen on buildings, signs and shop windows everywhere. The group, which once erected a giant cardboard telescope in Belgrade to let people watch the falling star Slobotea and offered people a chance to punch a Milosevic effigy for
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      • 130 11 -AP MADRID -A prison officer was killed yesterday in a car bomb explosion blamed on ETA, one day after some 100,000 Basques marched for peace. The bomb went off at 7.45 am (1.45 pm Singapore time) in the Basque regional capital of Vitoria, killing 44-year-old Maximo
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      • 114 11 -AP HARARE As government convoys moved poor blacks onto white farms, a state newspaper said yesterday the agriculture ministry intends to resettle landless blacks on at least 2,000 white farms by Dec 31. Agriculture Minister Joseph Made said a “fast track” programme begun in June was
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      • 108 11 -AP COLOMBO Policemen are being specially trained to overpower suspected suicide bombers who blow themselves up on being challenged, a police officer said yesterday. “We lose policemen in almost every suicide bombing,” said Bandula Wickremasinghe, a top officer of the Crime Detective Bureau. “We can’t go
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    • 258 12 -ap CHICAGO US prosecutors accused a retired chief police detective of leading a jewellery theft ring that stole nearly US$5 million (558.75 million) worth of jewels by tracking jewellery salesmen, analysing their routines and making duplicates of their keys. William A. Hanhardt,
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    • 204 12 -AFP LONDON One of Britain’s most notorious serial sex killers, Rosemary West, applied on Saturday for a review of her case in a first step to clearing her name, her lawyer said. West, who is serving 10 life sentences for the murder of
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    • web cites
      • 55 12 E-shoppers no longer need to worry about giving credit card numbers online. 2skymall.com lets you shop till you drop and pay upon collection of your items. Instead of having it delivered to you, you can choose to pick it up from one of their collection centres at most
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      • 47 12 Browse into Asia's first virtual jeweller at Raremix.com. Prices of the site's mainly 18-carat white gold and silver creations cost between US$lOO and US$5OO. Products range from bangles to chokers to cufflinks that incorporate a variety of materials, such as rubber, leather and cloth.
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    • 281 12 c: c mroc. A I t V,:. I l STREATS SENTOSA HELL’O’WEEN PROMOTION r Have one hell of a Hell’O'Ween up for grabs! Event: Sentosa's HellOWeen Date: 27 &28 Oct 2000 (Friday Saturday) Time: Bpm to 3am venue: Parade Square, Sentosa Come on down to the Graveyard this Halloween for
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  • Streatsmart people
    • 229 14 -AFR Reuters ATLANTA Former US President Jimmy Carter has cut his ties with his Southern Baptist denomination. Mr Carter, 76, made public his decision to break with America’s largest Protestant denomination in an open letter on Friday, citing I its rising fundamentalism and political conservatism,
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    • 199 14 AFR Reuters LONDON It’s no longer an open secret former Beatles singer Paul McCartney has publicly confessed his love for model Heather Mills. For the past year, it had been widely rumoured that McCartney, whose wife Linda died of cancer two years ago, was
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    • 218 14 Reuters ADELAIDE Wan Azizah Wan Ismail, wife of Malaysia’s jailed former finance minister Anwar Ibrahim, had her appointment with an Australian minister cancelled at short notice but said she did not believe she had been “snubbed.” She was to have met Foreign Minister Alexander Downer
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    • 236 14 -AFP TOKYO Writer and journalist Kaori Sasaki believes she has a winner with eWoman (www.ewoman.co.jp). The Internet site provides a discussion forum for career women and is one of just a dozen or so sites tackling issues such as children’s education, women’s careers, homekeeping, fashion
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    • 167 15 SHAMPOO maker Head Shoulders launched 'ts latest advertising campaign with Faye Wong aboard the Minsk, a former Russian aircraft carrier that is now a tourist attraction in Shenzhen. Besides splashing lots of shampoo on her hair, 't also reportedly poured $2O million on production and
      Pic: Apple Daily  -  167 words
    • 189 15 HONGKONG actress Cecilia Cheung’s press conference to promote her first Mandarin album in Taiwan ended up as an apology session. She had been criticised earlier by well-known host Huang Tsu Chiao for not doing her “homework” before appearing on Taiwanese radio and television
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    • 332 15 Kim Jong II revamps his image -AFP SEOUL At the start of the year, North Korean leader Kim Jong-ll was seen as a tyrant and a threat to world peace. That image has undergone a dramatic change, particularly in South Korea where the 58-year-old is now a fashion item and
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    • 181 15 HONGKONG -Family ties between Anita Mui and her mother are strained over the management of a charity project. The cantopop queen had abruptly submitted a letter relinquishing her position as honorary chairman of the five-year-old cancer prevention society headed by her mother. Anita, who
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  • Streatsmart feature
    • 390 16 MEN have biological clocks, too and they start to slow down after the age of 24, scientists have found. The London Metro reported that research shows that the human male would find it more difficult to get his partner pregnant after 24, regardless of what
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    • 47 17 I uu llllialiii* ww teas |l|i| :-;.v < N After a year out of the limell former TCS 8 golden boy Chri. Lee is all out to make a come But it has not been easy Flip page for the details i mm m m; M 1 t
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  • easy STREATS
    • 557 18  -  by Karen Chen ITS been a bad year for Christopher Lee. And it all began with an alleged grope of costar Nnadia Chan’s butt. Once the golden boy of TCS 8, Christopher Lee has been getting a bum rap from Lady Luck of late. The
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    • 460 19  -  Take a Long Vacation f with Kimura Takuya, Yamaguchi Tomoko and a green ball tellylmt': bf A'von.ne Kwok QUICK, someone fetch me a rubber ball. Preferably one that’s green and sparkly, so you can gaze at it in endless fascination and bounce it from
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    • channel scan
      • Today's must-see TV...
        • 55 19 MAGIC’S GREATEST ILLUSIONS NOTHING UP MY SLEEVE 10pm, Discovery (SCV 12) This programme features legendary illusionists like Doug Henning who examine the seven principles of magic and perform baffling illusions that defy all possible explanation. For budding magicians who've always wanted to know how to escape from chains and make
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          94 19 7.30 pm, TCS 5 Firstly, TCS has shown this one time and again. Plus, it stars Jean-Claude Van Damme who would i be better off acting M as a plank of wood, ll But Sudden Death f|| is still a good lij choice for a no- Y brainer
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          46 19 10.30 pm, TCS 8 i It’s not only the most I talked about Japanese I drama since Oshin, it r also stars some of the best lookers in the region- al entertainment industry If you need more reason to watch it read today’s Tellytubby
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          94 19 9pm, HBO (SCV 60) Tobey Maguire and Reese Witherspoon star as sib- lings from a broken family who find themselves j trapped in an alter- J nate reality that is E really pleasant. Mom p and dad live in perfect V harmony and the weather is always good. Then,
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        • 56 19 10pm, Central This is a tribute to one of the greatest guitarists of the century, Jimi Hendrix, and it commemorates the 30th anniversary of his untimely death. It features a fully re-mastered version of an outstanding performance by Hendrix and his Band of Gypsies. True
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    • easyStreats treats
      • 287 20  -  llii&Mlil. two shoes by Judi Low Give us a call Everyone seems to think they know where the best food can be found. So, why not share your secrets with us? And if your recommendation is good, we'll rewardyou with a prize. You can reach me
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      • 97 20 The rice way to eat sushi MOST people eat sushi by dipping it rice-side-down into the soy, and letting the soy soak into the rice. Then they wonder why the sushi disintegrates on its way to their mouth, leaving little black flecks of soy-stained rice all over the
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      • 306 21 Just one \auestionJ Mrs Margaret Hoa, 34, is an assistant officer at Standard Chartered Bank. She has a son and a daughter, aged five and eight A* with seven hours of sleep, I still feel tired, and the next day I often get
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      • 439 23 -AP THE concept of using the image of movie stars to sell products, with the celebrity getting a percentage of sales, has arrived in the Indian film capital of Bombay, or Bollywood, as it is nicknamed. Although India produces about 800 movies a year, making it
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    • easyStreats sports people
      • 219 29 AP CHICAGO Andrew Golota, who quit after two rounds of his bout with Mike Tyson, was in the hospital on Saturday and under observation for a concussion, the fighter’s promoter said. Main Events spokesman Donald Tremblay said he was told by Kathy Duva, the firm’s
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      • 212 29 Reuters BERLIN The drugs scandal involving national coach-elect Christoph Daum shook German soccer just as it appeared to be recovering from one of the worst crises in its history. “This is naturally not good for the image of German football,” German Football Association (DFB) vice-president Gerhard
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      • 177 29 AP RIO DE JANEIRO Newly appointed Brazilian national team manager Emersen Leao drew harsh media criticism and qualified support on Saturday, only two days after being selected to his new post. Rio’s influential O Globo newspaper published a front page article questioning Leao’s credentials. Leao has not
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    • easyStreats sports
      • sport scan
        • 102 30 -afp MADRID Barcelona leapfrogged from sixth to second in the Spanish first division on Saturdaynight after a surprisingly easy 2-0 victory over bitter rival Real Madrid. Spice was added to the occasion by the return of ex-Barca darling Figo for the first time since he joined
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        • 41 30 -AFP SYDNEY Drug scandals threaten to overshadow the Sydney Paralympics after revelations yesterday that two more powerlifters failed pre-games doping tests. Officials identified the two as Hamed Abdul Al-Jandal of Saudi Arabia and Anton Puskov of Bulgaria. -afp
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      • 473 30 Schumacher holds off Coulthard by less than a second over the final 10 laps AP SEPANG, Malaysia Michael Schumacher won the Malaysian Grand Prix yesterday and Ferrari captured the team constructors’ title to complete its first Formula One double since 1979. He completed the season with
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      • 290 31 Reuters LONDON Terry Venables said yesterday he believed the English Football Association FA would not appoint him as England coach. The former Crystal Palace, Barcelona and Tottenham Hotspur manager, who led England to the semi-finals of Euro 96 in his previous stint
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      • 198 31 Reuters LONDON The top of the English Premier League took on a familiar look following wins for leaders Manchester United, Arsenal and Liverpool. United eased past an injuryhit Leeds United 3-0, Arsenal won 2-1 at West Ham United and Liverpool ended Leicester City’s unbeaten away
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      • 77 31 Bradford 0 Ipswich 2 (Petrescu-og 34, Clapham 89); Charlton 1 (Svensson 68) Middlesbrough 0; Chelsea 6 (Hasselbaink 25-pen, 42,52, 58, Zola 48, Flo 68) Coventry 1 (Roussel 89); Liverpool 1 (Heskey 69) Leicester 0; Manchester United 3 (Yorke 41, Beckham 50,Jones-og 83) Leeds 0; Newcastle 0 Everton 1 (Campbell
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  • Page 21 Miscellaneous
    • 486 21 'Him Til s’ oirin ur nm VJJ \ricj Your Daily Horoscope mum ms JAN 20-FEB 18 Contradictions soon grow tiresome. Give your beloved all of your respect and attention. A shared dream is infinitely more healthy than the unchanging colours of a fixed idea. PISCES FEB 19-MAR 18 rs K
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