Project Eyeball, 21 August 2000

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    11 1 projecteyeball. eyeball.asiaLcom.sg Mita (p) 077/02/2000 Monday, August 21, 2000 80 CENTS
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    62 1 One kid, going on two... Jeffrey Chee, 30, regional marketing executive Sharon, 25, housewife Crystal, 2 1/2. Colin Ong, 32. IT consultant Dorothy, housewife Amanda,2 Two kids, going on three.. Kelvin Kwek, 32, legal counsel Elaine Kwek, 31, accountant, Sarah, 3 and Sean nine months. Milton Ng, 37, sales
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    Lock icon Incentives
    72 1 One kid, going on two $3,000 over six years to be used for child-care, nursery and kindergarten fees. And up to $6,000 more in dollar-for- dollar matched contributions if the parents also save for the kid. Two kids, going on three.. The amounts are doubled. 6,000 over six years
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    Lock icon Will They Bite ?
    94 1 Will They Bite i One hid, going on two.. Yes. They were planning for four kids but were worried about the cost. The baby bonus will help. No. They were already planning a second child, but the incentives are too small. Two kids, going on three.. No. The baby bonus
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      145 1 LIMBS Singaporean: I’m no cybersqnatter A Singaporean Web editor has taken the name of the British PM’s wife, Cherie Blair, for his site. The 25-year-old insists he’s not a cybersquatter looking to make a buck, but he says he has thought about selling the name. See Page 2 Adult fare
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      47 1 V Alphonso Chan But will parents take the bite? In his National Day Rally speech last night, the Prime Minister unveiled incentives to hook couples into having more babies. Will these incentives do the trick? We asked several couples, and their reactions were mixed. See Pages 3,4,5
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  • News & Views
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      100 2 A GROUP of schoolgirl hitch-hik-ers caused mayhem on Holland’s roads as they bared their bottoms to try to catch the attention of drivers. Drivers stopped suddenly and argued over who had seen them first and ought to give them a ride, when they saw the three girls, aged 14
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      Lock icon SGX ad irritates many investors
      380 2  -  By Francis Kan francisk@sph.com.sg “GREED. Arrogance. Selfishness. We’ll bring out the best in you.” That was the bold headline of a full-page advertisement, taken out by- surprise, surprise the Singapore Exchange (SGX), which appeared on Friday in this paper and in The Sunday Times. Instead
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      Lock icon There’s no Cherie in cherieblair.org
      440 2  -  Singaporean domain name owner denies being a cybersquatter By Toh Bee Ping beeping@sph.com.sg A SINGAPOREAN Web editor has hijacked Cherie Blair’s name for a website (http://cherieblair.org) but he insists: “I am not a cybersquatter”. The man in the Net, Kevin Koh, 25, said: “Cybersquatters buy
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      Lock icon PM dangles bait for couples
      569 3 Government to spend $260 million a year on incentives HE WAS in no position to order singles to get married or tell couples how big a family they should have. Yes, agreed Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong last night, these are personal decisions. But he’s
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      Lock icon A ‘Rally’ goodie bag
      485 3 This year's National Day Rally came with about $3.2 billion worth of goodies targeted at the young, old, poor, parents and workers. $2 billion CPF top-up The top-up will come in two instalments the first in Jan 2001 and the second within 12 months. Not everyone
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      Lock icon $3b goodie bag
      515 3 UNWRAPPED last night -a goodie bag worth more than $3 billion. And it’s not even Budget Day. Besides the $260 million a year in baby bonuses, there’s $2 billion set aside for CPF top-ups. The first instalment of the top-ups will be coming in January, and another
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      Lock icon Any takers? That’s great!
      438 4  -  Not quite. We spoke to four couples who would be most affected by the baby bonus. Here's what they have to say: By Serene Goh sereneg@sph.com.sg FOUR. That’s the track relay team of a family Sharon and Jeffrey Chee had hoped to have. Nevertheless, financial constraints
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      Lock icon No difference
      344 4  -  By Sue-Ann Chia sueann@sph.com.sg THE Ongs are thinking of having Baby No 2 in 2002. And they won’t be rushed into having it any sooner. Nope, the baby bonus is no bait. Colin Ong, 32, an IT consultant, describes the $5OO annual contribution as a “sweetener”, but rather
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        284 5  -  By Rachel Tan rachel@sph.com.sg TWO are enough, and any Baby Bonus will be a boon. But, say, you cut the maid levy as well, now that may help make baby number three. The Kweks have done their maths and are convinced that even as
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        Lock icon Not enough money or time for No 3
        501 5 EMOTIONAL investment aside, a child is a long-term financial commitment. A six-year incentive scheme will only help make a small dent on expenses. Expenses start ballooning when the child grows into a teenager. That’s one big-enough reason to put off Number Three,
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      Lock icon Divers spot sub crewman
      541 6 Bat outlook for rescue bid still bleak Wires MOSCOW Norwegian divers examining the stricken Russian nuclear submarine, lying 108 metres under the Barents Sea, have spotted one of the 118 crew trapped in a damaged airlock leading out of the vessel. But it was not known
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      37 6 ‘Undersea helicopter A British mini-submarine LR\ rescue vessel Prestwick Trondheim can evacuate io people at a time. Sources: Perry Slingsby Systems Ltd, Rumic Ltd, UK Ministry of Defence, lISS, Reuters, Associated Press, Jane's Fighting Ships GRAPHIC NEWS
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      Lock icon More Malaysians released
      157 7 Jolo rebels still hold 28 hostages AFP JOLO Three Malaysians emerged hungry and tired from the jungle on southern Jolo island in the Philippines yesterday, ending four months in captivity at the hands of Muslim extremists who still hold 28 other hostages. Cook Kua Yu Loong, diving
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    • Local LOG
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        Lock icon Girl, 3, found unconscious
        86 7 THREE-YEAR-OLD Cathy Phua Li Xuan was found lying unconscious on the ground floor of a block in Bedok North at around 1 pm on Saturday. By the time police arrived, her grandparents had taken the child to a nearby clinic. An ambulance was subsequently called, but
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        81 7 SHE had locked the front door to her Marine Crescent flat when she left her house early on Saturday afternoon. But Juriah Yatin, 36, found her home broken into, and her radio set, television and video-CD player stolen on her return that night. Which wasn’t
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        Lock icon Book coming on youth and future
        88 7 SEVERAL prominent members of society have expressed their views in a new book dealing with youth and change in a borderless world. Published by the Boys’ Brigade in celebration of its 70th anniversary, 2000 The Way Ahead, includes contributions from Professor Tommy Koh, Minister
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        Lock icon New bus service to Bukit Panjang
        67 7 IF YOU live in Bukit Panjang, chances are you will appreciate the new Trans-Island Bus Service service launched yesterday. With a fleet of 15 buses, Service 970 will ply the route from Bukit Panjang Interchange to Shenton Way Terminal, making it easier for people
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        62 7 A beach-goer gets his belly decorated, courtesy of Johnny Two-Thumb Tattoo Studio, at its first tattoo beach party, held yesterday at Mahalo Hawaiian Beach Bar, on Sentosa. It was free entry to the party for anyone with a tattoo. But it didn’t matter whether it was the
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    • World WIDE
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        122 7 AP MADRID A bomb rigged to a patrol car exploded in north-eastern Spain on Sunday, killing two officers, police said. Police suspected ETA, the Basque separatist group that has waged a 32-year-long war for independence. The explosion occurred in the town of Salient de Gallego
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        Lock icon N Korea threatens to end peace accord
        110 7 AFP SEOUL North Korea threatened yesterday to scupper an inter-Korean peace accord unless South Korea cancelled its joint military exercise with the United States. “If the South Korean authorities truly want improved North-South relations and peace on the Korean peninsula, they should take
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        125 7 Reuters JAKARTA Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid met two dozen powerful politicians and government officials yesterday, in a gathering to mark an easing of political tensions in the country. The evening meeting, held at Foreign Minister Alwi Shihab’s house in south Jakarta, had sparked rumours that
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    • Article
      Lock icon Napster goes on offensive
      252 9 Lawyers say judge is ignorant of digital technology WASHINGTON Napster’s lawyers seem to believe that the best defence is a good offence, reports Upside.com. In court papers filed over the weekend, they railed against Federal District Judge Marilyn Patel who shut the music-swop service down saying
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      Lock icon Madonna fights for her domain name
      170 9 NEW YORK The Material Girl wants her name back, reports ZDNet News. Songstress Madonna has filed a complaint with the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) to wrest the domain name Madonna.com from the clutches of porn site owner Dan Parisi. Wipo’s arbitration and mediation
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      Lock icon Get a life! But I’ve got work
      750 10 More Singaporeans suffering syndrome where work consumes life SEIZE the day. You only live once. Enjoy life. Easier said than done, you’d probably say. If you were truly enjoying life, why would you feel guilty about having two-hour lunches? Why are you thinking
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      Lock icon Spy in the sky let’s you peek at your neighbour
      359 10 ORWELLIAN TWIST LONDON If you always had the feeling that someone was watching you, your paranoia may come true if British scientists managed to launch a new satellite-surveillance system that would provide the ultimate way to spy on anyone and
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    • Article
      Lock icon S’pore shares still looking bright
      244 12 Economic backdrop supports market, say investors Reuters DESPITE rallying for three weeks, the upside potential for Singapore shares is intact, given the paucity of stock picks elsewhere in South-east Asia, say analysts. “South-east Asia has nothing much left to buy...except for Singapore,” said Lisa Khoo,
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      Lock icon BIZ SITE OF THE DAY: wwwgohdirect. com.sg
      154 12  -  Francis Kan STOCKBROKER G K Goh, a giant among local brokers, appears to be spreading its dominance into the virtual world as well with its online trading site, Goh Direct. This is the site for investors who need the adrenaline rush of trading
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      Lock icon Nomad caravan on the horizon
      620 13  -  By Steve Ooi steveooi@sph.ccm.sg HAVE you bought a compact disc recently? Or have you, like so many other tech-savvy Netizens, become a Napster junkie, flooding your 10gig hard drive with hundreds of MP3 files, from Santana to Britney to Faye Wong? If you have been
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      Lock icon Greed – harbinger of doom
      160 13  - Greed harbinger of doom WONDERLAND68 SOME people have bemoaned the loss of “traditional values”, saying they have been overtaken by our materialistic nature. But, as our SM remarked years ago, we descended from immigrants forced to flee our homelands to eke out a harsh existence here. The key then was
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      Lock icon Teachers should get better deal
      130 13  -  CLOCKWATCHER I AM a parent and notice the strain teachers are under. So much talent, so much pressure. Extra courses and upgrades have to be done in their own time AND they are on a bond. A staff room away from the students (and us
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      29 2 Qood morning! Late morning and early afternoon showers with thunder can be expected over the next two days. High: 31C I Low: 23C Tides: 2.24AM/2.7M 2.56PM/2.6M Met Service: http://www.gov.sg/metsin
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      28 6 For the latest on the sub saga log onto http://eyeball. asial.com. sg For an overview of the Kursk tragedy and what went wrong go to www.observer.co.uk/ focus/story/0,6903, *****7.00.html
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      193 9 Find out more about the four points on which Napster’s legal eagles have attacked Judge Patel’s decision at com.sg Nomad caravan on the horizon, see page 13 NEC Monitors Imagination. ]SoI uti ons. %Lls\ 11 U.MMtK VV\ \K!)S VENDOR fIWARPS The complete range of LCD CRT monitors follows the tradition
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      Lock icon Short ’n’ sweet
      533 14  -  By Andrew Chin andrew@sph.com.sg HVERWORKED dotcommers, sleepless executives and exhausted researchers your prayers may have been answered. A Singapore research team has developed software which can scan the longest article and deliver the meat of the message in bite-sized portions. The developed by a team from DSO
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    • Article
      Lock icon Next generation Nomad
      423 14  -  ONLINE MUSIC By Andrew Chin andrew@sph.com.sg Andrew Chin IT’S a marketing man’s dream come true when his product gets mentioned on a national stage. In his National Day Rally speech last night, Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong spoke of Creative’s next range of Nomad Jukebox music players,
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    • Tech FILES
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        31 15 Elka Qraham (centre) models a swimsuit in Sydney last week. The controversial suits, which give wearers a significant speed edge, were recently approved for competitive use. Pictures: Reuters
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        Lock icon Sony has smallest mini-disc player
        74 15 SONY has unveiled the world’s smallest and lightest portable Mini-disc player last week. The MZ-E9OO enables 320 minutes of music in long-playing mode. It goes on sale in Japan on Sept 10 with a price of 30,000 yen (*****). A Singapore release date has yet
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      • Article
        Lock icon Hi-fi haven on Net
        60 15 HIFI.COM, a subsidiary of Creative Technology Ltd., has launched Hifi.com Asia to Singapore audio-gear fans. The consumer electronics portal is an authorised distributor for Cambridge Sound Works, Harman Kardon, Marantz, JBL, JVC, Infinity, Samsung and Sony. Products include camcorders, CD players, DVD players, home theatre systems
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        Lock icon Easy moving in the UK
        86 15 NEXT month, a pilot scheme by the British government will allow citizens to use the Web to inform the government of changes of address, reports theregister.co.uk. By updating one site, all the various ministries are updated. Ihavemoved.com, simplymove. co.uk and the Royal Mail are the
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        Lock icon Windows ME is out early
        122 15 Wires IF YOU are the market for a new computer, you’re likely to get one preloaded with Windows Millennium, reports CNet.com. Microsoft has given PC makers permission to deliver Windows ME-loaded PCs even before the shrink-wrapped boxes are due to hit the market Sept 14.
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    • Article
      Lock icon THE SYSTEM THAT TEACHES ITSELF
      145 15  -  Steven Ng THE Summarizer program is fed a document and shown a summary of it, made by humans. It will compare the two and assign importance to certain sentences, based on these factors: THE POSITION OF THE SENTENCE IK A PARAGRAPH, AND THE POSITION OF
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      Lock icon Internet firm has eye out for B2B websites
      312 15 ICG Asiaworks looks for winners IF YOU are running a 828 website, it may be time to polish up your presentations and beef up your page views. A rich player is in town, looking to buy into plum e-commerce firms. “In our
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      23 14 These sites give you a good overview of summarisation: http://www.textsummary.com http://www.inxight.com http://clr.nmsu.edu/Research/ Projects/minds/demonstration s.html http://www.east.elsevier.com/ ida/browse/96-6/ida96-6.htm http://www.cs.columbia.edu/hiing/sumDemo/CPS/intro ■html http://www.nada.kth.se/-herc cules/Textsumsummary.html http://wdvl.com/Authoring/ Languages/Perl/PerlfortheWeb /summarizer.html
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  • EyeSport
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      Lock icon Why Leboeuf was dropped
      458 17 Frenchman left out for making disparaging remarks about manager Vialli Wires LONDON Chelsea’s controversial defender Frank Leboeuf may have been out of sight but he was very much on the mind of manager Gianluca Vialli. The Blues boss more or less admitted he had dropped Leboeuf
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      Lock icon Facing off with the Tiger
      381 17 VALHALLA’S UNSUNG HEROES LOUISVILLE (Kentucky) Whoever wins the US PGA Championship, the 2000 tournament has been as much about the ragamuffins of golf as Tiger Woods. For three rounds at least, they emerged from their hovels and danced in the streets these lesserknown pros who
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      Lock icon Wenger sees red too
      488 18  -  Arsenal boss attacks Vieira’s sacking By Adam Hashidy hashidy@sph.com.sg IF ONLY Arsenal had as much Firepower as its manager, Arsene Wenger. Disappointed by his side’s humiliating 0-1 defeat to Sunderland, the Frenchman let loose an attack that would have been the envy of his ineffective strikers.
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    • Premier POINT
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        Lock icon What I’d do with mega bucks
        658 18  -  By Chris Lakey peppoint@sph.com.sg LONDON In the interest of research, I bought National Lottery tickets last week although, sadly, I didn’t win. The purpose was to see how much I’d get if I win and how I would invest the winnings in Premiership football.
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      Lock icon Super man, again?
      918 19  -  Kurt Warner led the St Louis Rams to an NFL title, but he’ll be hard-pressed to repeat By Rand Miranda mnd@sph.com.sg THERE’S another kind of football about to kick off, American football. The National Football League. So as the NFL prepares for its 2000 debut come the
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    • Ball WATCHING
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        Lock icon Ruck ’n’ roll without any frills
        536 20  -  By Nazvi Careem nazvi@sph.com.sg PURE sport is devoid of gimmicks. You can have your pom-pom girls, time-outs, half-time shows, rock music or whatever side dish your marketing people can devise to supplement the main course. Indeed, for many fans, these peripheral distractions provide the
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      Lock icon Walkin’ on air
      40 20 Australia s Brett Lee leaping for joy after bowling South Africa’s Daryll Cullman for a duck in the Super Challenge 2000 series in Melbourne yesterday. But the Aussies still lost the one-day match by eight runs. Reuters
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    • Back YARD
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        Lock icon Gripping race to the end
        519 20  -  S-League battle caps exciting local sports week By Zaki Amrullah zaki@sph.com.sg IT WAS a good week for local sports. The S-League came to an exciting close, the new women’s soccer league began, we had a peek at a new force in men’s bowling and our
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      Lock icon Kiwis fail to overhaul Pakistan total
      345 22 PAKISTAN, facing an inquiry into sexual misconduct allegations, withstood a determined New Zealand fightback to win the opening match of the Godrej Singapore Challenge 2000 cricket tournament yesterday at Kallang. The Pakistanis, defending a total of 191 for six wickets off 25 overs, bowled
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      Lock icon Naseem floors Sanchez in fourth
      602 22 Three-punch combination sends American out on a stretcher Wires MASHANTUCKET (Connecticut) Boxers are pussycats at heart, and Britain’s Prince Naseem Hamed is no exception. Before his WBO featherwieght title fight with Augie Sanchez, it was all about blood and guts and of course, his extravagant
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      66 19 http://www.espn.go.com With scores, stories and features, this is the daddy of NFL sites. http://www.foxsports.com A little gimmicky, but plenty of interactive elements from their US television broadcasts. http://www.cnnsi.com News in a no-nonsense format http://www.nfl.com Check out the links to team homepages and the newspaper websites for each team’s cities. http://www.usatoday.com
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      138 21 S;; 0 internet iM a of "<a»s& Now there’s a reason to go to a cybercafe without playing a even pe printed in Project Eyeball the next day. And end up influencing network shoot-em-up. countless others. So if you want to have fun in the virtual world while If you
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  • Unwind
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      Lock icon Dirty laundry
      864 23 Biographies on the Clintons, Princess Diana, JFK Jr and Al Qore are jostling for attention on the bestseller lists. SAM I-SHAN (ishan@sph .com.sg) turns the page on readers voracious appetites for celebrity secrets and scandals. QF YOU are one of those people who decry how scandal has hijacked
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    • Books
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          Lock icon Potter pick
          80 24 TEENAGE British actor Gabriel Thomson has been chosen to play Harry Potter in the Hollywood adaptation of the best-selling children’s books, reported Britain’s Daily Telegraph. The 13-year-old from South London got his acting chops by playing the part of young Pip in a BBC adaptation of Charles Dickens’
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          147 24 TOM Clancy has ditched Robert Gottleib, one of the most powerful agents in the book business and the head of the William Morris agency’s New York literary group. Clancy is now represented by Michael Ovitz, who wooed the best-selling author with his new business plan of representing
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          90 24 BOOKTAILOR, a British-based site backed by publisher Bertelsmann, will offer customers the capability of compiling their own travel books. Customers log into www.booktailor.com, select a travel destination, then choose the content from a menu, including personal interests, restaurants, hotels, sightseeing and so forth. The finished ring-bound books
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        636 24 FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA’S ZOETROPE: ALL STORY Harcourt THOSE Hollywood dreams never die! Who doesn’t want to write a brilliant novel or story, commission it to Tinseltown, which then, against all the odds, makes it into a blockbuster movie, and become such a shining star that it hurts your
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        Lock icon Lahiri’s winning touch
        659 25  -  Reviews: Sam I-shan SURVIVAL OF THE PRETTIEST Nancy Etcoff Anchor NANCY Etcoff analyses perceptions of beauty in history, and examines the reasons behind trends ranging from crinolines to body piercing. However, she does not distinguish clearly between tendencies that are biologically hardwired into our brain and those
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        Lock icon A world where eccentricity is welcomed
        340 26  -  By Sam I-Shan ishan@sph.com.sg QN THE artistic or literary world, standards of outrageousness may differ from those applied to politicians and royalty. Many of us expect artists or writers to be neurotic, sexually deviant geniustypes. It certainly adds a tang to their work. The
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        146 26  -  Sam I-Shan WHO HE IS: Oscar O’ Flahertie Fingal Wills Wilde (1854-1900), born in Ireland, educated in Oxford. Flamboyant writer and playwright who’s at his literary best when drunk and bedding young men. HE IS MOST LIKELY TO SAY: Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is
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        1013 27 A new Hong Kong action flick is being filmed in Malaysia. TAN DAWN WZSi (dawntan@sph.com.sg) went to get the lowdown. SKYLINE Cruisers is not the latest luxury cruise liner to dock at the World Trade Centre. It’s a new blockbuster action film from Hong Kong, whose
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        726 28 Adult programming is being bulldozed aside by an onslaught of teen television. JRANMARITS TAM (jeanm@sph.com.sg) reports on why youth TV is becoming so popular. O SENSELESS flicks like American Pie, Scary Movie and Road Trip provoke side-splitting convulsions? Do you know your Britney from your Buffy? If not,
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        375 29 Will teen TV make the grade or flunk the class? Here are the hopefuls best to worst That 70s Show Tuesday 9 pm, TCS 5 This is definitely a groovy blast from the past. Set in 1970s suburban Wisconsin, this sitcom follows the foibles of dweeby teen Eric
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        409 29  -  Reviews: Serene Goh STUART LITTLE Geena Davis, Hugh Laurie, Jonathan Lipnicki, Michael J Fox SIZE matters. And measuring a mere handspan is a computer-generated leading mouse who brings to life EB White’s children’s classic of the same title. The box-office hit features the Little family
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        200 29  -  Kylie Minogue, On A Night Like This Ronald Rajan KYLIE Minogue may not be The Queen of Pop, but she sure can claim to be an Impossible Princess. Just when we thought we’d seen the last of the bite-sized Aussie sensation, she bounced back in true kangaroo fashion
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          91 30 FLORENCE Henderson will appear on Ally McßeaLs upcoming season as Dr Shirley Grouper, a doctor who teaches a course on how to keep a man happy. Meanwhile, the cast of the David E Kelley dramedy are anxiously awaiting the arrival of Robert Downey Jr as Ally's love interest.
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          93 30 ALICIA Witt has been working overtime to tarnish her clean-cut TV image. Last seen as the horny lawyer in Ally Mcßeal, she’s currently a porn star involved in sexcapades with rodents in Cecil B Demented, John Waters’ latest ode to bad taste. Witt labelled big-budget, brain-dead Hollywood movies
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          66 30  -  Jeanmarie Tan Actress and ex-pin-up doll Farah Fawcett is steaming mad over the derogatory way she’s been portrayed in the media. The former Charlie's Angel and sex symbol asserts that she’s definitely not a drug and alcohol abuser. In fact, in her free time,
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          668 30 The West Wing has won over American audiences in a big way. But the show has yet to make an impact in Singapore. JEANMARTR TAM (jeanm@sph.com.sg) offers her reasons. VERYBODY knows the recipe for mainstream TV success rests on gratuitous sex, slapstick and violence. However, you
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      24 28 Harbouring a complex love/hate relationship with youth TV? Work through your guilty pleasures at http://www.mighty bigtv.com A hilariously critical homage to all things juvenile.
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      796 31 Tube Talk Movies Cliffhanger 7.30 pm •TCS 5 Sylvester Stallone plays Gabe Walker, an expert climber who is forced to help a band of thieves through mountain terrains. Janine Turner plays fellow climber and love interest. Filmed in the Italian Alps, it boasts stunning cinematography and footage of the Dolomite
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    148 32 She’s one of the hottest models in town (above) and yesterday graced our newsroom to chat with Eyeball surfers. Meet Lum May Lee, model, actress, and cover-girl for the local fashion set. Read the full transcript for her views on sex, staying slim, and what it’s like to
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    284 32 THE European Commission has announced an agreement that English will be the official language of the EU rather than German (the other possibility). As part of the negotiations, Her Majesty’s Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement, and has accepted a 5-year phase-in of
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      157 32 Let us know what you think Today’s polls, and where to vote: Are you a single, white female in Singapore? Tell us what it’s like: http://eveforum.asial.com. sg/cgibin/WebX?l4@@.ee 6doab Take our poll of music formats. What’s your favourite? http://eveball.asial.com.sg/ Eveball/Tech URLs Roadmap to the Internet, from stories in the newspaper: Sites
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