Project Eyeball, 14 August 2000

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    10 1 Projecteyeball. eveball.asial.com.sg Mita (p) 077/02/2000 Monday, August 14, 2000 Free
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      138 1 Hot LINKS Marriages of convenience Is trying to gain a parking lot pass a valid reason for tying the knot? There are those Singaporeans who don’t see any problem with it and there are those who can give strong reasons for remaining single. Who’s right? See Page 3 Express your
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      173 1 r W&3BB m Paul Eric Roca From hick to hip Now might be a good time to visit Chinatown, while you can still recognise it. As geeks flock aggressively to the neighbourhood, dotcom sweatshops are now becoming familiar landmarks where coolies once stood. At least 23 dotcoms have joined the
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      103 2 CHICAGO A college student with a soft spot for Al Gore and extraordinary foresight has presented the Democratic presidential ticket with a gift he bought five months ago: The website http://www.gorelieberman.com The campaign was so happy to get the domain name that it promised Maryland University sophomore David Jackson,
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      Lock icon Get with IT
      568 2  -  Young and old must be familiar with computers, says SM By Wong Sher Maine sher@sph.com.sg DO YOU know that some big-shot American chief executives actually get their secretaries to download material onto their laptops? This way, all they need to know when they go for meetings is
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      Lock icon Ready for the next Boom?
      316 2 THE Boom Boom Room is coming back. The infamous dragshow club which provided eight years of no-holds-barred camp comedy at Bugis Village before closing on April 2, will reopen at the “end of the month”, said Kumar last night. Taking part in a live webchat
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    • Ground
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        Lock icon Tying the knot...to get a parking lot
        541 3  -  S’poreans offer reasons to marry, or stay single By Joanna Lim joanna@sph.com.sg IN THE end, they married for that precious piece of paper -a carpark coupon. Sandy and Steven (not their real names) had lived together for more than nine years. They never
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        204 3 WE asked you what you thought about marriage and having more babies. Here’s what some of you said: “Freedom. Choices. New frontiers. Women can now plot their own roadmaps no more the beaten path to the kitchen. Hence, the Big Bad M word
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      Lock icon Maid rage cases ‘so common’
      493 4  -  Cases in spotlight only tip of the iceberg, say lawyers By G SIVAKKUMARAN wagsiva@sph.com.sg BUT, seriously, the spotlight ought not to be on Channel News Asia’s In Conversation anchor Zahara Lateef, but on the issue of foreign maids and their local abusers. In an e-mail,
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    • Local LOG
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        Lock icon Handicapped girl rises against all odds
        215 4 KATHY Lee was born prematurely, weighing only 850 g, and had to undergo several major operations to survive. Her left brain was severely damaged, and it affected the functioning of the right side of her body. Instead of giving up, 13-year-old Lee persevered and
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        Lock icon Joint venture to fund start-ups
        104 4 ARE you a start-up in one of these sectors: wireless, broadband, electronic commerce or online security? If so, you might want to start knocking at i-STTIOO’s doors. The joint venture between Hong Kong-based Internet firm iIOO Ltd and Singapore Technologies Telemedia (STT) Communications is starting
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        Lock icon Cabbie hurt in car wash mishap
        75 4 A TAXI-DRIVER who tried to get out of his car while in an automated car wash had his right hand caught in the vertical brush roller for 25 minutes at about 4 am yesterday and suffered cuts and bruises. The 46-year-old was in a
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        Lock icon Motorcyclist run over by lorry
        95 4 MR Kasmuri Sarpin, 49, was driving along the PIE towards Jurong on Saturday morning when he was caught in a massive jam caused by a fatal accident near the Stevens Road exit. He saw a body in uniform lying on the road, but did not
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        127 4 A LIFE-SAVER in the form of a card is coming. Called the LifeMedic Card, it will contain your name and an access code that will allow doctors to review your medical history and records at the LifeMedic.com website if you are comatose or cannot
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        40 4 Syed Ahmad bin Syed Alwee Asree, 34, and Hanifah HajarTaib, 28, at their Ritz-Carlton wedding party last night. He is the son of Justice Syed Alwee, while her father is Sarawak’s Chief Minister Tan Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud.
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      Lock icon Developers chase dotcoms
      574 6  -  Scramble on to sell office space tailored to meet needs of start-ups By Ng Hwee Koon hweekoon@sph.com.sg NET companies are jostling for space. And for once, it’s for real, physical space. From Buona Vista to Eunos, developers are enticing dotcom tenants, using jargon to gladden a geek’s
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      456 6  -  CHNA TOWN'S CHANGING FACE By Sue-Ann Chia sueann@sph.com.sg MAKE a trip to Chinatown. Fast. If you don’t, you won’t recognise it. Dotcom sweatshops are now familiar landmarks in places where coolie houses once stood. Young, aggressive geeks now rule from brothel-in-fested Keong Saik Road to temple-dominated Telok Ayer
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    • World WIDE
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        Lock icon 2,000 celebrate Anwar’s birthday
        281 8 Jailed leader heartened by show of support Reuters KUALA LUMPUR About 2,000 supporters of jailed former deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim turned up at his prison yesterday to celebrate his birthday. The supporters, who travelled in a convoy of some 200 vehicles, staged a noisy celebration
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        Lock icon Taiwan plays down cancelled US meeting
        151 8 AP TAIPEI Taiwanese officials showed no signs of disappointment or anger yesterday about the cancellation of a rare meeting between their President and members of the US Congress -a gathering that would have infuriated rival China. Hours before President Chen Shui-bian was to board
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        169 8 AFP NEW MEXICO Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid will harm his country’s stature if he follows through on plans to visit Iraq this year, US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright has said. Albright said such a trip would be inappropriate and ill-advised and
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        148 8 LONDON Right-wingers in the United States are claiming Bill Clinton is suffering from a sexually-transmitted disease. They said they had confidential medical reports which indicate that the President was suffering from at least one “very intimate illness”, reports The Daily Record. But furious Democrats have branded
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      Lock icon Uncork good returns with wine futures
      716 10  -  Paris Stock Exchange to start trading wine in November By By Francis Kan francisk@sph.com.sg TIRED of that sick feeling in the pit of your stomach each night as you track the Nasdaq on your computer wondering if the bears will rip the bulls apart
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      Lock icon Golf retailer to launch IPO soon
      272 10 THE botched initial public offer by sports retailer eWorldofSports.com has clearly not muddied the waters of the sports IPO market here. Transview Holdings, a leading golf equipment retailer with outlets in Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong, hopes to score a hole-in-one with its own
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      Lock icon BIZ SITE OF THE DAY: www.asiaxis.com
      266 10 Francis Kan CLIMBING the corporate ladder is passe now. High-flying professionals are, instead, chasing that elusive pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. The founders of asiaxis.com, a website that provides first-hand research focusing primarily on the Singapore stock market, would probably
      Francis Kan  -  266 words
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      Lock icon Where angels fear to tread
      891 11 ON SATURDAY, we told you what some of you wanted from our newspaper: Views, views and more views. Here’s more of what you want. CONTROVERSY Taboo, anathema, controversy. Are you able to stomach it? Some readers want us to go beyond the well-trodden path and
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      27 2 Qood morning! Showers with thunder in the late morning and early afternoon over many areas. High: 32C I Low: 24C Tides: 11.46 AM/2.4M 10.52PM/2.7M Met Service: http://www.gov.sg/metsin
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      244 6 So where are the dot.coms hatching? Check out these hot spots and find out who the residents there are at asial.com. sg imikim: •r* *l% min 0f the Ye®* SS-8 Silver Designed to be an integral part of your daily life, Sound Space 8 creates an environment in which to
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      65 7 Click on aslaLconusg to find out how, with more than 20 dotcoms settled in and more on the way, the lanes of old Chinatown have become the Silicon Alleys of Singapore. Eyeball takes you on an interactive, multimedia journey through a new-old neighbourhood. Go door-to-door with the residents, experience the
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      339 7 Then Regaine® 2% Could Be Good News For You The good news is that Regaine® 2% is now available from your pharmacist without prescription. Regaine® 2% is the medically proven treatment for common hair loss in both men and women. It is thought to work by revitalising the weak hair
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      260 9 Strap it on! Take a listen! JO** Be art>4zed! I/V^XETT Vl€iT74^#RKSr Download MP3 files from your computer for skip-free, high-fidelity audio enjoyment! The wrist-type wearable MP3 player y\i RI ST AUDIO Weighs only 70g 32 MB memory Stores approximately 33 minutes of near CD-quality audio data m m s> Wmm
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      31 10 #http://www. wineeducation.org/ text/ invest.html Why are some wines worth a fortune? http://www. brentwoodwine.com/ invest/trendsl098.html Is wine a better investment than the stock market? http://www.winefutures. com.au Looking for wine futures Down Under?
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      151 12 Overseas Union Bank is proud to introduce OUB Mobile Net wireless Internet Banking based on state-of-the-art Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) technology, to give you unrivalled, convenient access to financial services. With OUB Mobile Net, you can easily access a variety of real-time links to foreign exchange rates, deposit rates, unit
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      20 13 Project Eyeball would like to thank all readers for their comments and Overseas Union Bank for sponsoring the feedback contest.
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      Lock icon Tank full
      437 14  -  By Eugene Wee eugenew(wsph.com.sg THE AH Terrain Tracked Carrier (A [1 1 was a whole now ballgHtoe for engineers at Si n gup ore Technologies Kinetics. With no prior experience Tiggi in building articulated personnel carriers, which *j have two cabins joined at the centre rather than one
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      495 14 (eimnew ur sphwonug) puts K*He pedal to the mettle when he slides behind wheel of one of the meanest green maehines to rumble (he paced roads of Singapore. ITS Burn like a tank, bur moves like a Mini Weighing in at about II tonnes, the locally designed-and-builf All
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    • Tech FILES
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        Lock icon Fake Star Wars trailer a hit
        143 16 A DEDICATED Star Wars fan has posted a fake trailer for the upcoming Star Wars: Episode 11, incorporating some scenes from other films like Braveheart and Dune. But the people at Lucasfilm, who are producing the movie, aren’t upset about it at all, reports
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        Lock icon 125,000 networks prone to mass Net attack
        112 16 A RESEARCHER has discovered a security flaw in 125,000 computer networks that could render them vulnerable to a mass attack over the Internet. It is the same security loophole which led to devastating attacks on some of the biggest Internet companies, such as
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        Lock icon Get paid to search the Web
        85 16 A NEWLY-LAUNCHED website is offering to pay surfers to make Web searches through its database. Espotting.com (http://espotting.com), which claims to be the first such search engine in Europe, offers cash if you do the following, reports TheRegister: Sign up with the service. Click on
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        Lock icon Going, going... vrooom!
        138 16 DOES power and torque turn you on? Now you can bid for sleek and racy beauties at Singapore’s first-ever online car auction (http://sg.sas.lycosasia.com). The auction is organised in conjunction with Singapore Auto Salon 2000, a car show which will open at the Singapore Expo at the end
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      Lock icon Click, clock
      628 18 No time on your hands? A few taps of the mouse will bring wide selections of watches for sale to your desktop and make clock-watching a pasttime. TiIM PUAY LENG points the way. Works like a catalogue http://www.watchworld. com.sg/ THIS site is an online extension of Bharath Watch
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      413 18  -  STATE OF THE NET By Adeline Goh adel@sph.com.sg HOW many “reluctant Internet Explorer users” do you know? I know plenty. Most of them are disgruntled web designers and developers. They will never openly admit to being Explorer (http://microsoft .com) converts it would be too
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      39 15 X Want to know more about what went into the design of this homegrown machine? Click on to httpV/eye ball.asial.com.sg Also, check out the streaming video to find out how it feels being behind the wheel of the ATTC.
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      30 16 h r m i LTun AMERICAN SINCE 1892 For more information call *****88 E-mail: Hamilton@swatchgroup.com.sg lnternet. WWW.HAMILTONWATCH.COM TM/© James Dean Inc., licensed by CMG Worldwide lnc.www.JamesDean.com Photo Stock Magnum Photos
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  • Eye Sport
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      Lock icon Hakkinen out in front
      512 19 Finn bags race with brilliant pass at start, Schumacher finishes second Wires BUDAPEST What’s all this about motivation? Don’t ask Mika Hakkinen because he has plenty of it. Hakkinen captured the Hungarian Grand Prix yesterday after a brilliant passing move at the start when he swung
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      Lock icon Chelsea tops United in Shield
      376 19 SOME things never change. Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink scored and Roy Keane was sent off. Only this time, Manchester United lost, going down 2-0 to Chelsea in the FA Charity Shield at Wembley yesterday. Scoring goals is great for a striker anytime of the year, especially
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      Lock icon Leeds offers O’Leary record $31m deal
      324 20 PREMIER LEAGUE'S NEW ALEX FERGUSON LEEDS When Manchester United made Alex Ferguson the Premier League’s highest-paid manager, he had garnered a hatful of league titles, a couple of FA Cups often in the same year. David O’Leary’s trophy haul for Leeds United since he
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      Lock icon Keane’s boast
      431 20 United captain says his side is best Wires FOR all the millions of fans who follow Manchester United, an equal number, perhaps even more, absolutely despise them. The club itself caters to both sets of people. Take, for example, Roy Keane’s above quote, which has a dual effect.
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      49 20 Brazil’s Roger celebrating his country’s second goal during a friendly at home against Chile on Saturday. The match, in the southern city of Florianopolis, formed part of the build up for next month’s Olympics in Sydney. The showy Brazilians won, 3-0. AFP
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    • Ball WATCHING
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        479 22  -  TV stations are making no bones about plugging Woods By Adam Hashidy hasidy@sph.com.sg WATCHING golf these days is watching Tiger Woods. Television stations make no excuses when plugging the American superstar. It is given that if Tiger doesn’t play, people won’t watch. Not without justification. Woods has
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      516 22  -  FOOTBALL SEASON KICKS OFF By Chris Lakey peppoint@sph.com.sg WAKE up! Yes, you over there. Don’t you know that football season has started? Yes, I know it’s only just finished, but it starts again now, doesn’t it? And if you’ve got any sense, you’ll be wide
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      Lock icon Holyfield gets lucky again
      725 23 Defending champion scrapes past little-known challenger to win record fourth title LAT-WP EVANDER Holyfield, the man who won his first heavyweight title by knocking out Buster Douglas, won his second on points over Riddick Bowe and won his third by stopping Mike Tyson. Now he has
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      630 24  -  He’s a dream player and leader By Luke Pachymuthu luke@sph.com.sg PEYTON Manning may not look like a National Football League (NFL) quarterback, but he is playing like one. Manning and the Indianapolis Colts shut out a pre-season opponent for the first time in 11 years when they whipped
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    • Back YARD
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        277 24  -  By Zaki Amrullah zaki@sph.com.sg HOW else can you describe Fandi Ahmad? Footballer extraordinaire. Football coach. Football ambassador. Did we miss out on anything else? Now he’s won the Motorola Coach of the Month Award, given by the Asian Football Confederation, for leading SAFFC to the S-League title
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        79 24 DPM Lee Hsien Loong reiterated Singapore’s Goal 2010 foreign policy at yesterday’s National Stadium launch of the National Football Academy. “If some of these foreign players decide...they want to make this their home, and they satisfy our criteria for citizenship, then we should welcome them,” said DPM Lee.
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      30 20 Do you love or hate Manchester United? Visit the ManU-meter at http^/eyebalL asial.com.sg to express what you feel. If you are a fan, there’s plenty to cheer you at www.manutd.com
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  • Unwind
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      1016 25  -  Jeanmarie Tan Japan-mania has invaded our living rooms in the form of chart-busting weepy television serials. JEANMARIE TAN (jeanm@sph.com.sg) grabs a tissue and examines the phenomenon. TAKE one impossibly good-looking lovelorn star, his equally impossibly good-looking wheelchair-bound paramour, throw them into an impossibly tragic affair and what you
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    • Television
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          72 26 THE Practice is “expecting” a new cast member this upcoming season. According to an executive producer of the seven-time Emmy winning series, Kelli Williams (above, with Dylan McDermott) is about two months’ pregnant with her second child. Creator David E. Kelley will work the pregnancy into the show’s
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          61 26 HER talk shows have died slow deaths, but an optimistic Roseanne Barr wants to give syndication another shot with a game show that trade magazine Variety calls a cross between Divorce Court and Let’s Make A Deal. Barr would act as an arbitrator for estranged married couples, who
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          55 26  -  Jeanmarie Tan FRIENDS’ Chandler thumbs through a ring brochure: “Pheebs, can you help me pick out an engagement ring for Monica? I can’t figure this out! It’s so hard! Should I get her a (turning to each page) Tiffany cut or a Princess cut or a-ah-ah! Paper
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        730 27 Australian ‘reality TV’ show Popstars is nothing hut a shameless exercise in tele-voyeurism and exploitation, concludes JEANMARIE TAN (jeanm @sph. com. sg) T’S hard to keep track of the hellish onslaught of reality TV in the US. Watch 10 strangers rough it on a desert island in Survivor
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    • Books
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        Lock icon Hypertext books at a crossroads
        884 28 Is the author dead? Will hypertext fiction sound the death knell for fiction as we know it? SAM I-SHAN (ishan@sph.com.sg) ventures into electronic space to find out. ANG! Pow! Even as you knock the last thug out, the scar-faced ringleader leaps from nowhere and points
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      • Book MARKS
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          Lock icon Seow’s works sell
          127 29 FRANCIS Seow’s books have made it to amazon.com’s list of “unusually popular” books bought by Singaporeans. Although they are not banned in Singapore, his works, The Media Enthralled: Singapore Revisited and To Catch A Tartar: A Dissident In Lee Kuan Yew’s Prison, are not available here. Distributors
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          59 29 TIVOLA Publishing, a Berlin-based producer of children’s multimedia CD-ROMs, will release the English-language CD-ROM adaptation of Antoine de Saint-Exupery’s The Little Prince in the United States on Aug 28. Priced at a rather steep US$29.99 (S$59.98), the CD-ROM features a 3-D animated version of the story, various games,
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          Lock icon Slim pickings
          79 29 ALAN Bennett, writer of screenplays like The Madness Of King George, has written a novella called The Clothes They Stood Up In, in which a couple comes home from the opera to find that their London home has been burglarised. But as they try to cope with their
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        293 29 WE ARE gods, and we might as well get good at it,” trumpets Kevin Kelly, the former editor of Wired magazine. The hype would have you believe those damn digerati are Nietzschean ubermensch who believe that the fettering of a free man’s will with troublesome external controls such
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        Lock icon THE FRONTIERS
        515 29 GENOME Matt Ridley Fourth Estate PEOPLE who love reading, writing and talking about themselves can’t get more microcosmic than this easy-to-read work about the genetic make-up of the human species. The chapters (with sexy, punchy one-word titles like “Self-interest,” “Politics,” and “Eugenics”) each focus on an individual gene,
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        591 30  -  Reviews: Sam I-shan LIGHTHOUSE William Monahan Riverhead A SOUFFLE-LIGHT tone and a furiously literate banter characterise this book. The reader breathlessly follows the madcap phrasing and pacing just to see if Monahan, lover of bombastic words and the gratuitous joke, can simply keep it up or not. The
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      213 28 http://placing.com/ credits.html/ Hypertext lite: Carl Steadman’s Placing is an easy introduction to hypertext fiction, structured around 26 consumer products. “Placing” pokes wry fun at the interdependencies between people, products and advertising. Readers get to send in their suggestions for products to feature. http://www.eastgate.com/ TwelveBlue/ Hypertext lyrical: Michael Joyce’s Twelve Blue
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